Nirvana doing Bowie’s “Man Who Sold The World”
Cover songs that are better than the originals.
There is an active thread about terrible cover songs so I thought I'd start one about cover songs that are better than or have completely eclipsed the originals. I'll start:
Randy Newman wrote Momma Told Me Not to Come for Eric Burdon who recored it with the Animals and Newman recorded it too. I have the Newman version and like it but Three Dog Night really seem to capture the mood of the song best in my opinion.
Randy Newman wrote Momma Told Me Not to Come for Eric Burdon who recored it with the Animals and Newman recorded it too. I have the Newman version and like it but Three Dog Night really seem to capture the mood of the song best in my opinion.
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Led Zeppelin did many great covers. Dazed and Confused Since I have been loving you etc. Probably the greatest cover band ever. They improved upon and improvised upon stuff. Jimmy Page and Plant were great at seeing potential in stuff and making it 10x better Who has ever heard of Jake Holmes or Moby Grape? I rest my case. |
Not necessarily better, but great takes: Chromatics - Running up that hill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgv88ZLi6LY Bobby Womack - California dreamin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ytX3IaFHGk Madeleine Peyroux - Blue alert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q14XNTxqCcQ Everything but the Girl - Corcovado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D8HgCTKYfc |
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