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  • #1

    Cover songs that improve on the originals

    Sometimes when a well known rock band does a cover of an older song it ends up sounding better. These are the ones I like:

    Shout - covered by Disturbed
    Let the good times roll - covered by Powerman 5000
    Smooth Criminal - covered by Alien Ant Farm
    Paranoid - covered by Megadeth
    Symptom of the Universe - covered by Sepultura
    Sweet Leaf - covered by Godsmack
    Renegades of Funk - Rage Against the Machine

    Which covers do you think improved on the originals?
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    Why "Well Known"? Does that mean I can't like Johnny Allan's "Promised Land" or Derrick Harriot's "Do I Worry?" because the originals by Chuck Berry and Frank Sinatra are better known?
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    • #3
      Originally posted by Snapcase
      Why "Well Known"? Does that mean I can't like Johnny Allan's "Promised Land" or Derrick Harriot's "Do I Worry?" because the originals by Chuck Berry and Frank Sinatra are better known?
      The ones I know are by well known bands mostly, but if you want to list others go ahead.
      ...people like to cry a lot... - Pekka
      ...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - Snotty

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      • #4
        "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" covered by Creedence Clearwater Revival
        "All Along the Watchtower" covered by Jimi Hendrix
        "You Shook Me" covered by Led Zeppelin
        "Born Under a Bad Sign" covered by Cream
        And so on...
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        • #5
          "Now That We Found Love" covered by Heavy D & The Boys

          You seriously think Alien Ant Fart's version is better than MJ's classic?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Juggernaut
            You seriously think Alien Ant Fart's version is better than MJ's classic?
            Maybe not, but I like it. The original is also very good.

            I just remembered another one I like, "Sympathy for the Devil" covered by Guns n Roses
            ...people like to cry a lot... - Pekka
            ...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - Snotty

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            • #7
              "Live And Let Die" covered by G'n'R.

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              • #8
                Laibach - One Vision (originally by Queen)
                "Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
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                • #9
                  Well, the two above, plus

                  Aretha Franklin - Don't Play That Song (You Lied)
                  Johnny Thunders - Great Big Kiss
                  The Dictators - California Sun
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                  • #10
                    You mention Aretha, but you don't mention "Respect"?

                    Greatest. Cover. Ever.
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                    • #11
                      Marilyn Manson's version of "Tainted Love" is a classic.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Juggernaut
                        "Live And Let Die" covered by G'n'R.

                        I saw McCartney do Live and Let Die. For my tastes, I doubt Guns N Roses was improvement.


                        The biggest and best was, All Long The Watchtower as done by Hendrix.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Guynemer
                          You mention Aretha, but you don't mention "Respect"?

                          Greatest. Cover. Ever.
                          I'm sorry, being a big Stax fan I consider the Otis original a superior version.

                          Talking of which, his cover of Satisfaction was absoultely brilliant.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by SlowwHand
                            The biggest and best was, All Long The Watchtower as done by Hendrix.
                            I honestly never got the appeal of that particular cover. Long, slow, drawn-out blues-jam without the energy I know Henrix is capable of (Crosstown Traffic on the same record is great), uninspired in production and sung in a very strange fashion, again without the full vocal resources Henrix has. Plus over half of it is a ****ing guitar solo, which I hate.
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                            • #15
                              I think Dylan wrote it, and it went nowhere.
                              At least Hendrix took it...somewhere.
                              I kind of like the Dave Mason version too.
                              Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                              "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                              He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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