cover versions better than originals

[petrefax]

been listening to a lot of music over the past few days for one reason or another & have inevitably heard a few covers

imho, there are some that are actually better than the originals, such as....

Faith No More - Easy
RHCP - Fire
RHCP - Higher Ground
Therapy? - isolation
Nirvana - man who sold the world

what are your thoughts? any covers you think are better than the originals....or any of those i've suggested you disagree with?

[Swafe]

limp bizkit - behind blue eyes


even tho the whos version is great, i think it sounds better, apart from the bit in the middle where he starts singing something dodgy and sounds a bit crap

[Trash Man]

Faith No More - Easy, without doubt the best version there is of this song

Not really a big RHCP fan, so I can't say I know those two. A few of my suggestions would be.

Metallica - Turn The Page
Nina Simone - Mr Bojangles
Guano Apes - Big In Japan

[Stoo]

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal

[headbrace]

Simple Minds- The man who sold the world
Goldfinger- 99 red balloons
The Doors- Come on Baby light my fire

[Rave]

Goldfinger- 99 red balloons

Good one.

Pet Shop Boys- Always On My Mind
Judas Priest - Johnny Be Goode
Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet- Everlasting Love


Rich :¬)

[streetster]

stereophonics - handbags and gladrags, maybe?

[Trash Man]

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal

That better be a joke :/

[steve threlfall]

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal

LMAO

stereophonics - handbags and gladrags, maybe?

i prefer rod

[Howard]

Agree with Petrefax, Faith No More - Easy is superb.

And Fleetwood Mac's version of Songbird I prefer to the original somehow... Mind you I dunno if Eva Cassidy's was the original? Someone care to inform me? Lol

[petrefax]

limp bizkit - behind blue eyes


even tho the whos version is great, i think it sounds better, apart from the bit in the middle where he starts singing something dodgy and sounds a bit crap

that reminds me of another - fred durst & the guitarist from puddle of mudd doing led zeppelin's "thank you" on the MTV awards a few years ago (although they did have some help halfway through, in the form of mr jimmy page )

[Bindibadgi]

Jonny Cash - Hurt

Best damn JC track ever, beats the **** out of the NIN version.

[Raz316]

Man im sure I should be able to think of some, but I can't

It's more of a remix but I think the Sasha and Digweed version of Enjoy the Silence is better than the depeche mode one.

[Knoxville]

Agree with most of these, but smooth criminal is far better left to jacko himself imo

I think the only one that ain't been mentioned is Metallica - Whiskey in the jar

[Stoo]

Yes, I was joking

Jamie Cullum has done some very good covers, several of them for Radio 1's live lounge

[Raz316]

out of interest, is there anywhere online where you can find out if a cover version of a song has been done?

E> http://www.coverinfo.de/main.php?page=lang - german, but looks like it could be quite good