I mean obviously Johnny Cash's Hurt, but I would also put a shout out for Dusty Springfield's 'Take another Littel Piece of My Heart'. Controversial perhaps, but I think defo better!
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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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 |
My sister rented Bridesmaids tonight, and as the movie was nearing it’s conclusion, I was surprised to hear a killer version of "Shakin’ All Over" by Wanda Jackson. Wanda was a 1950’s Rockabilly singer, dated Elvis, then went into the Gospel field for decades. This great, great song, originally recorded by Englishmen Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, is best known to a lot of people from The Who’s version on the Live At Leeds album. Wanda’s version was produced by Jack White and is on Wanda’s 2011 The Party Ain’t Over album. It is SMOKIN’ hot, almost as good as the 1965 version by The Guess Who. Better than Johnny Kidd’s version, and much better than The Who’s imo kinda lame one. Following directly behind the song is another using a guitar riff almost identical to the one is Shakin’, Blondie’s "Rip Her To Shreads". This is a live version, and is also great, much better than their studio recording heard earlier in the movie. |
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