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Cover versions that are better than the original



Puddles Pity Party (Mike Geier) is a world class crooner, and Haley Reinhart is fantastic.
 
Chomsky said:
Along with a plethora of assorted and sundry sixties rock & rollers.

Special mention: Tom Dowd & Ahmet Ertegün


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Sorry I missed your post originally, sometimes replies don't show up in my inbox, and I don't realize someone replied till much later.

Are you a blues guy? I love a lot of that stuff, the original cats like Robert Johnson, Johnny Shines, T-Bone, Muddy, Wolf, Buddy Guy.

They influenced the 60s British blues players, and yes some of that stuff was god awful. But considering the bad pop thing going on in the early to mid 60s, guys like Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, the Yardbirds, Zep, Jeff Beck... they brought much needed energy to rock music. Sure they aren't the originals, but I'll take em over Bruno Mars or new rap music any day.
 


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Jesse Booth said:
I'm not too fond of most of their songs, but Disturbed did a cover of the Sound of Silence that I really like. I consider it one of their best works.

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Some Velvet Morning

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this is sort of a cover. The original version first heard was by Jerry Garcia in his Cats Under the Stars solo album

it was then covered by his main band the Grateful Dead but my favorite cover (with more stanzas making the song make much more sense) was by the guy who wrote the lyrics. Robert Hunter

The original




my favorite cover-see if you can find the additional lyrics





and a recent cover from Aaron and Bryce Dessner's Day of the Dead tribute album

 
Covered by many, many great artists this version is, IMHO, at the top of the heap



The original was pretty damned good in its own right but Aretha killed it



Gram Parsons countrified version is pretty good too but the feel is totally different

 
Terry Kath took a Spencer Davis masterpiece and knocked it out of the park

 
I've always had a thing for the psychedelic covers so -

Rare Earth covering the Temptations



The Blues Magoos covering...somebody



The Chocolate Watchband covering Dylan

 
The William Bell original is great....but he wasn't Otis

 
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I prefer Nirvana's "The Man Who Sold The World" more than Bowie, though some may consider that Blasphemy.

Depending on my mood, I sometimes prefer SRV's live "Voodoo Chile" to Hendrix's (either version), and other times it's the other way around.

Willie Dixon's performance of "Spoonful" is the best hands down. (Willie Dixon, "I am the Blues", track 4).

The Door's live version of Backdoor Man. I sometimes prefer it over Dixon's. I prefer both over Howlin Wolf's, which I think - but may be wrong -was the original.

I prefer Clapton's Milkcow Calf Blues to Robert Johnson's version, but they really are quite different. (Robert Johnson basically having invented modern blues, in turn, rock, in turn, everything)

Guns n' Roses Knockin' on Heaven's Door over Dylan (more blasphemy?)
 
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And now I've gone and relistened to the 5/30/70 "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" (Hendrix).


Damn. Just damn.
 
truthatallcost said:
Sorry I missed your post originally, sometimes replies don't show up in my inbox, and I don't realize someone replied till much later.

Are you a blues guy? I love a lot of that stuff, the original cats like Robert Johnson, Johnny Shines, T-Bone, Muddy, Wolf, Buddy Guy.

They influenced the 60s British blues players, and yes some of that stuff was god awful. But considering the bad pop thing going on in the early to mid 60s, guys like Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, the Yardbirds, Zep, Jeff Beck... they brought much needed energy to rock music. Sure they aren't the originals, but I'll take em over Bruno Mars or new rap music any day.
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Yep, your post is a good one - thanks!

I love the blues, and learned to play them at an early age.

I've got a special affinity for the early electric Chicago stuff (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter), Prrety much anything written by Willie Dixon, and greatly appreciate all that Mike Bloomfield & Paul Butterfield did to popularize them. I could not live without a copy of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band debut album in my possession.

There's nothing quite like the sound of an old Tele, played wide-open through a tube twin-reverb! :thumbs:


 
azgreg said:


Puddles Pity Party (Mike Geier) is a world class crooner, and Haley Reinhart is fantastic.
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WTF did I just watch??? :lamo

It was excellent, though! :thumbs:
 
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the song waltzing Matilda is a classic-perhaps people remember that famous (sadly deceased now) Australian Folk singer leading the athletes and others in the 2000 games in Sydney during the closing ceremonies singing that classic. The Pogue song isn't really a cover of that-it sort of samples it at the end but its one of the most awesome anti war songs ever done--absolutely brilliant music
 
Chomsky said:
WTF did I just watch??? :lamo

It was excellent, though! :thumbs:
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Postmodern jukebox is a group that covers modern songs in older genres. Really good stuff.
 
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