Cover songs that are better than the originals

Freebird

LOL = Disagree
WOW = Can't decide
WIZ = Agree

Let the games begin!

Freebird

MagicPigDetective

https://youtu.be/FX2svM_JC3U

https://youtu.be/iufusVXt6S4

Freebird

MagicPigDetective said:

Fopp

A tricky one, I prefer the Soundgarden vocals, but the Ohio Players have got funk!

I think it will need another play or two before I can decide  

Update: I scored that one a draw, mainly due to it being such an iconic funk song.

barnstorm

Can’t think of many where I like the cover enough that I would choose it every time over the original, but this is one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YVroYzNz60

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1tWSX6CT3I

barnstorm

Oh - another, as already posted in the Tiger King thread...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEglW9PVdYs

Freebird

Robert Smith, aged 51, shows his versatility in this collaboration with Crystal Castles.

stimpsonslostson

https://youtu.be/QnEWs8D9zu8

stimpsonslostson

https://youtu.be/59m6BoEVkng

MagicPigDetective

Another debatable one.

Alex Chilton's country tinged Free Again, or Teenage Fanclub's power pop cover?

phil_b

MattW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wrsZog8qXg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgy09d4WNhA

I knew the cover before the original with this one so for years thought it was the other way around.

RobDavies

https://youtu.be/v6qvIhygLTs 

https://youtu.be/5S-fmGg0rz0 

RobDavies

https://youtu.be/OJKe2j9Wjh4

https://youtu.be/XZVpR3Pk-r8 

fields5069

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahr4KFl79WI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoJ0bAp4Eo8

fields5069

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_ZBSBsjSQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ1HyB4U_6w

oh_pollo

The original version of 'Betty Davis Eyes' is awful...whoever rearranged it for Kim Carnes should have got a Nobel Prize.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAQsOJbs-yo

vs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5eWh6LYHsQ

steven70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY

Hendrix, All along the watchtower....whole thing is perfection, heard it 1000 times and never sounds tired.

Dylan version...(also great)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx6bNFzpVho

steven70

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Creed_Clicks

Budgie, Crash Course in Brain Surgery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOO4Mc41z4

Metallica, 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcZ2ndsYI4

All songs on that Metallica EP I think sound better than the originals.

Creed_Clicks

steven70 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY

Hendrix, All along the watchtower....whole thing is perfection, heard it 1000 times and never sounds tired.

Dylan version...(also great)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx6bNFzpVho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOaMQ-R9YGM