Blasphemy! Covers that you like more than the original.

[Hazy992]

I know this has been posted already but there you go



Wow, Sum 41 made Nickelback tolerable

 

[Ralen-Sharr]

IMO way better than the original

 

[Worgen]

Kiss me deadly by the reel big fish

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

I love Dinosaur Jr's cover of Just Like Heaven... they just put there own spin on it... and J always takes the chance during the solo to melt faces as well as talk about his feelings...<.<

Oh so much this!

On topic

I like the Manic Street Preachers cover of Been a Son more than the original by Nirvana.

Spoiler: *cautiously raises flame shield*

What can I say, I'm a sucker for bluesy slide guitar

 

[Fijiman]

This is the only one I can think of and I love it even more because my school was doing the play at the time this came out.

 

[templar1138a]

For me, it's the Moxy Früvous live cover of "Psycho Killer" by the Talking Heads. I can't stand the lead singer from the original. He sounds like he's whining. He doesn't sound psycho at all. And the instrumentals just feel so subdued.


Moxy Früvous, on the other hand, had FUN with their cover. And they genuinely did sound crazy, not just in how they sang it, but in their instrumentals as well.

 

[anthony87]

Who needs The Beatles when you've got Jim Carrey?

 

[Zetsubou-Sama]

Beats the original one by far, and along with Johnny Cash's Hurt is my favourite cover

 

[Swyftstar]

I really liked Peter Gabriel's cover of The Book of Love by The Magnetic Fields.

 

[Nerdstar]

mine is less blpamashmys then some of you other heathens, iv always loved the clashes "i fought the law" and considering most people are more familiar with the clashes version then Bobby Fuller Four version its not as big a deal as saying you love alein ant farms cover of smooth criminal

 

[suitepee7]

one of my favourite songs of all time, only this version though. both halves sound brilliant in their own way


edit: oh, and although i am a massive fan of the irons, this is the only cover of theirs where the cover sounds better. not by much, but ever so slightly...

 

[0z0wen]

Bah, double post, bad internet! Bad!

 

[0z0wen]

Rise Against's cover of Ballad Hollis Brown, original by Bob Dylan.

 

[rdaleric]

Sympathy For the Devil. I preferred GnR's version over the original by the Stones.

Interesting, I prefer the Neptunes remix myself


Captcha - carpe diem. It's as if the internet is judging me for wasting time on the internet

 

[Clinky]

I like a lot of the covers done by Vitamin String Quartet, turning many well known songs into string focused arrangements. It's pretty cool if you ask me and a lot of songs sound gorgeous on strings alone. In particular I'm a fan of their covers of:

Spoiler: Guns N Roses' Sweet Child O Mine

Spoiler: Lady Gaga's Paparazzi

Spoiler: Linkin Park's Numb

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Snip

You /thread-ed your own thread in the first post with Johnny Cash there. That must be some kind of record.

 

[krychek57]

For me, it just fits.

 

[Limecake]

I'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't prefer this version:


and this one is better than the original, although the original is pretty minimal:

 

[Yopaz]

Who needs The Beatles when you've got Jim Carrey?

I was actually planning to post this one. It's pretty awesome.

Rise Against's cover of Ballad Hollis Brown, original by Bob Dylan.

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Another ninja...

At least this one isn't posted

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