Original songs improved when covered [by another band]

Im a fan of Land of Confusion by Disturbed

and some of the Less Than Jake covers of the grease soundtrack are pretty good as well

The Royal British Legion band cover The Klaxons' "Gravity's Rainbow", it's pretty good:



the original in case you haven't heard it: :



(can't find the original music video though, so you'll have to put up with a fan-made one)

it's the only Klaxons song i can stomach, the rest are a bit pish.

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The Rolling Stones and AC/DC covering B.B. King's 'Rock Me Baby'. Awesomeness overload.

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i quite liked thrice's cover of eleanor rigby.

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Blunty doing a parody/cover of his own song on Sesame Street:

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johnny cash's cover on nine inch nails' hurt, amazingly powerful song

not really a cover of a song but this should help clear things up after the crap rap and punk rock we just watched.

please fix up if messed up. I am poor in the skillz trying to place a vid in a message.





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Can't believe no-one's mentioned Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah



I'd also suggest The Doors' Alabama Song



And, not technically a cover, but Miles Davies' take on Rodriguez's Concierto de Aranjuez

Try to recognize this early 90s hit!

Corona - The Rhythm Of The Night. Atlantic 252 ftw.

Who's the guy who's recently covered Massive Attack's - Teardrop...?

I'm not saying it's an improvement - But I heard it on Radio 1 the other day - Thought it was quite good - I imagine it's not the easiest song to cover...?

funnily enough i was gonna suggest that for the thread where the cover artist destroyed the song, not improved it

it's Newton Faulkner.

i'm not a huge fan of the Massive Attack original, but the cover is just awful, IMO.

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Each to their own I suppose...!

No accounting for taste eh Muks...?!

you're a prime example of that, Taylor

it's just that i can't stand it when an artist takes someone else's song and just performs it in a slow acoustic way, and turns it into a whiny, dreary whingebag of a song, sucking the life out if it in other words.

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I stumbled across this and I think its legend!





Zebrahead cover of Wannabe by the Spice Girls

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the devil went down to georgia, heard this version first but i like it alot more with the guitar,
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Sorry to dig up this old thread. But I found this horror on youtube today. Take That covering Smells Like Teen Spirit. Kurt will be spinning in his grave.

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Well if you want bad covers it's easy: Jessica Simpson - Angels, and a lot of people on American Idol covering You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Angels, and the list goes on. One guy was actually decent covering Hallelujah and Over the Rainbow, which brings me to:


Jeff Buckley or Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah (both covers are good, Rufus' is inspired by Jeff's cover which was inspired by a cover done in 92 by some old guy)

IZ - Over the Rainbow