Music Covers You Like Better Than The Original

[OfficeCat]

I posted a few back on the first page if this magnificent thread but I just remembered another favorite, Nouvelle Vague's cover of Billy Idol's Dancing With Myself. Wildly different in style, it actually made me understand and appreciate Billy's version more than I had previously. Hearing it was an epiphany; I had the feeling that they had channeled Billy's soul and recorded the version that he would have done if he had been free to let it all hang out and release his inner lounge lizard.

[Half Moon]

Some may consider it blasphemy but somehow The Hu's Mongolian throat singing version of sad but true is more metal than Metallica IMO

Pffft! For anything after And Justice, who isn't more metal than Metallica? 😜

(I'll have to watch that after work tonight, haven't heard that one but like The Hu)

[DDTSGM]

Forgive me if somebody previously linked this, but IIRC correctly I found it after listening to a Johnny Cash cover of the song, but I could be crazy. Anyways it is absolutely the only ZZTop associated song I find half decent. Actually like it, a lot:



Sorry BN posted it earlier, but damn, I like it so worth hearing again.

[rathos]

Disturbed Land of Confusion - originally by Genesis
Marilyn Manson Tainted Love - originally by Soft Cell (though they covered the song from Gloria Jones)
Orgy Blue Monday - Originally by New Order
Leo Africa - Originally by Toto
Designer Design Get Low - Originally by Little John and the Ying yang Twins
Joan Jett I love rock'n'roll - Originally by The Arrows
Urge Overkill Girl, You'll be a woman soon - Originally by Neil Diamond
The Fugees Killing me Softly - Originally by Roberta Flack
Run DMC Walk this way - Originally by Aerosmith

[Virtuosity Student]

Five Finger Death Punch - Blue On Black

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p8NQUb...biBibGFjayA%3D

State of Mine - The Thunder Rolls

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4YS-CO...VuZGVyIHJvbGxz

No Resolve - Kiss From A Rose

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tFOemr...Zyb20gYSByb3Nl

Baltic House Orchestra - Dream On

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0G7iLQ...VhbSBvbg%3D%3D

[MistWolf]

[TC215]

[Lester Polfus]

Cowboy Junkies: Sweet Jane and I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry.

[Bio]

The thread title says "like better than the original". That doesn't require me to love the cover song--I might just really hate the original. And, that's the case in your examples. You don't have to work hard to improve a Wings song. Maybe the original is good in a different way, but no one has been willing to pay me the $100 it takes for me to listen to Bob Dylan sing. And don't get me started on Clapton. I almost got out of a car halfway between the Trinity Alps and Redding because the driver wouldn't stop playing Cream. At the time, walking while carrying a heavy, wet backpack seemed better than listening to that crap.

Lol, I love Dylan, but he's not the kind of artist you can force on anyone. His version of the song is more desolate. Its like he's talking to no-one and dying alone. A friend of mine, (who loves Clapton) described the Clapton version as "Eric Clapton doing Jimmy Buffet doing Bob Dylan". I also love Cream, but I don't think their catalog is quite extensive enough to support an extensive road trip.

[JTQ]

Cowboy Junkies: Sweet Jane ...