Covers which are better than then the original

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  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    edited December 2020
    Whiskey In The Jar by Thin Lizzy which isn't really a cover I suppose rather than a reimagining of an old folk song. The Metallica version which is a cover of a cover was pretty good too. In a similar vein Friggin In The Riggin by the Sex Pistols was a great rock n roll version of an old rugby song.
    A couple of other good ones that come to mind,
    Denis by Blondie.
    MONY MONY by Billy Idol.
    Always On My Mind Willie Nelson.
  • johngti
    johngti Posts: 2,508
    Hazy shade of winter - the bangles
    Need your love so bad - Peter green’s fleetwood mac
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    edited December 2020
    Pharrrel and and Robin Thicke's version of Got To Give It Up was pretty good, even if they called it Blurred Lines. 😁
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,269
    elbowloh said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Unpopular opinions Prince music is various shades of sh!t

    Indeed. I have to turn the radio off/over if a Prince song comes on.
    You two. Door. That way ----->
    How dare you traduce his Purple Magnificence.
    For cover, seek out David Gilmour mashing Purple Rain into Comfortably Numb, RAH April 2016.
  • joe2019
    joe2019 Posts: 1,338
    edited December 2020
    The Waterboys do an excellent live version of Purple Rain:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Kta6f6-s4

    That man can play the fiddle.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    My god that man needs a new tailor.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    https://youtu.be/A7TuWdHNsYY

    Genuinely better than the original
  • joe2019
    joe2019 Posts: 1,338
    webboo said:

    My god that man needs a new tailor.

    Really, who cares when you have that much talent.

  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,485
    edited December 2020
    kingstongraham said:

    https://youtu.be/A7TuWdHNsYY

    Genuinely better than the original

    Genuinely seen better drunken karaoke. Is that what this is?
    Come to think of it, not heard worse. I do hope you were joking.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    pblakeney said:

    kingstongraham said:

    https://youtu.be/A7TuWdHNsYY

    Genuinely better than the original

    Genuinely seen better drunken karaoke. Is that what this is?
    Come to think of it, not heard worse. I do hope you were joking.
    Sonic Youth side project, recorded in a karaoke booth. Love it.
  • Ben6899
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    Videos of 'Nam in the background. #edgy
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited December 2020
    God there's a lot of old fart music here and I'm hardly young myself. Anything from this century?

    From 10 years ago, which is my best effort, and it is obviously not edgy as its's Boards of Canada but I only discovered it last year.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_b4CBtRT60

    From 17 years ago you've got Aphex Twin's 26 Mixes for Cash which has some absolute belters on it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26_Mixes_for_Cash

    The vast majority are improvements on the originals, with the exception of the Heroes cover which I find quite irritating.

    From last century you've got Norman Cook cover of Brim-full of Asha

    Not the biggest fan but I prefer the DFA remix of Dare by the Gorillaz

    There's rarely a soulwax remix I don't prefer to the original. The let it happen remix of Tame Impala is good fun, fan of their crocodile boots cover and obviously GTA fans, the Synrise cover.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Ben6899 said:

    Videos of 'Nam in the background. #edgy

    Video recorded in a mall video karaoke booth I think, for $15 worth every cent.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    That lily Allen cover of Kaiser chiefs is better than the original
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Method Man's All I Need
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited December 2020
    Van Helden's remix of Spin Spin Sugar
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    My issue is that I'm old, so anything from 15 years ago counts as recent. I think I had two songs from 2020 in my Spotify most listeners to. I just won't have heard any really recent cover versions.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Yeah look mine are hardly cutting edge either.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    I follow rivers - magician remix. absolute belter.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    edited December 2020
    Does this count as a Radiohead/hollies cover? I like it anyway.

    https://youtu.be/axRMZqUNVEw
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    I don't think a remix counts as a cover.

    There, i said it.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    i guess it does.

    I prefer her 'cover' of doin time.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    If they did, then most things Andy Weatherall did. Loaded is better than I'm losing more than I ever had.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited December 2020
    remixes don't count as a cover? Explain the difference.

    Surely a remix, if the song is largely in tact, is just a different approach and arrangement of the same song?
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    rick_chasey said:

    remixes don't count as a cover? Explain the difference.

    Surely a remix, if the song is largely in tact, is just a different approach and arrangement of the same song?

    A remix has as a starting point the tracks recorded by the artist. Sure, in the most extreme, almost all of it may be discarded, but it's the starting point. A cover version starts from scratch.

    I dunno it fits any more though. Would you say Eminem did a cover of this? (2:25 onwards)

    https://youtu.be/xKISdd2mKzU
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    He didn't remix labi siffre did he? I thought he just sampled him?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Out of interest when there's a remix of a dance record does that not count as a cover?
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    rick_chasey said:

    He didn't remix labi siffre did he? I thought he just sampled him?

    Not a cover, and nor is a remix.
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    rick_chasey said:

    remixes don't count as a cover? Explain the difference.

    Surely a remix, if the song is largely in tact, is just a different approach and arrangement of the same song?

    they're just changing the backing track, arrangement, tempo etc.

    The original artist is still at the heart of the performance.

    A cover, is a cover, a different artist is doing their version of it.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    https://youtu.be/sGSS_-ggRls

    Remix of a cover version.

    (I think the cover version is better than the original, and the remix better than both.)

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