We’ve prolly done this before… but what the heck…
songs where the cover version is a belter and overshadows the original!…
my three:
“Maybe I’m amazed” McCartney v Faces
the original is great but the faces version surpasses it for me… Ronnie lane with the sublime vocal on the opening then Rod comes over the top and smashes it!!!! Have to feel a bit sorry for Lane on that one!…
“Respect” Otis v Aretha
Otis is all “woman you better make me a bloody sandwich” and Aretha comes back with “oh really?” Aretha takes that one for me just for the sass alone!
“Comfy numb” - pink floyd v scissor sisters…
one is a great track that makes you feel emotions like no other song, it literally makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck… the other is a dirge by pink floyd…
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Steve 'n Seagulls v ACDC or Metallica or various others
Anyone at all v Springsteen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcWVL4B-4pI
Johnny Cash - Hurt.
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Love the oasis version, I remember hearing it the first time when I was in my teens and I had no idea it was a cover until I discovered the Stones.
Whiskey in the jar - metallica vs thin lizzy
Not being a thin lizzy fan I don’t think it’s too hard to better the original. Sounds massive.
Turn the page - metallica vs seger
Another one from Garage Inc, loved learning this and playing it when I was younger.
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As All Along The Watchtower has already been taken, I’ll put forward another Dylan number - Rage Against The Machine’s cover of Maggie’s Farm
https://youtu.be/q3euAfNhuR4
I’m not sure if it counts as a cover when you’ve still got half the band there, but Page and Plant’s version of Kashmir with the full Egyptian orchestra outdoes the Led Zep original.
https://youtu.be/bzEYNsFC2gE
And then there’s Hey Joe, which is so iconically Jimi that many don’t realise it’s a cover.
https://youtu.be/fe82eYRjiBU
But Barbra Streisand's cover Laura Nyro's "Stoney End" is one of my desert island discs.
All Along The Watchtower is an obvious example.
Another would be Have Love, Will Travel . Everyone knows it as a great track by The Sonics, but I bet 95%+ of people don't know it's a cover of an old Richard Berry song...
most people don’t realise “I think we’re alone now” by Tiffany was in fact a cover of the track written by Ritchie cordell and released by Tommy James and the shondells!…
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Cameo v Korn
Python Lee Jackson v Thunder
-when we did this as a Band I was much more inclined to cover the Thunder version which I prefer ...unfortunately the others preferred the Rod original
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