OT: Cover songs that are better than the original

I was going to answer Joe's worst song thread with "any cover song that's just a similar but worse version of the original", but then I thought "that's ALL of them"!

But it isn't, is it? They can't all be as bad as Boyzone's murdering of "Father and Son", or Matt Cardle who couldn't even get the name of "Many of Horror" right.

So, does anyone have any suggestions for covers that are either better than the original, or are as good in an alternative way?

I'll start with Dionne Warwick's original Walk On By, and the cover by the Stranglers.

 

Eloise by The Damned, but only just a bit better

 

Know ill get pelters from the older generation but John Mayer's live version of Free f far allin' is better than the original Tom Petty.

While im on Jimi Hendrix bold as love. Mayers version on continuum album is superior. Much faster tempo which makes the guitar solo more intense.

Not that i love either but Mark Ronson/Amy Winehouse cover of Valerie gets more love that the original.

 

A Little Help From My Friends Joe Cocker. Come to think of it The Letter, Summer In The City, quite a lot of Cocker stuff beats the originals imo.

 

Johnny Cash - Hurt.

John Lennon - Be My Baby

 

Queen - crazy little thing called love

 

Who covered that?

 

Queen covered elvis presleys (i think)

 

Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee

 

Beat me to it Even Trent Renzor prefers Cash's version

 

Fire at will but Soiuxsie & the Banshees versions of both Dear Prudence & Helter Skelter

 

Rolf Harris "I touch myself" originally by the Divinyls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0rlYSJQkyw

Thats if you can forget about RH's alleged pervy activities

 

Quite a few Prince ones
Kiss. Tom Jones
Nothing .Compares. sinead O,Connor
Sign of. Times. simple Minds

 

Controversial one, but I much prefer the Scissor Sisters version of Comfortably Numb to Pink Floyds.

 

I have no words to deal with this situation.

 

DD I remember a thread on here the other day entitled "Bring back stoning" - think this may apply on this occasion

 

Rolf Harris singing Stairway To Heaven, then he sang Bohemian Rhapsody, sacralidge on both counts

 

Agree with DD & Froggy this is a great cover

[video=youtube;3aF9AJm0RFc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aF9AJm0RFc#t=223[/video]

 

Agree totally grandpops - I cover the Joe Cocker version myself - great song to sing!!

Knockin' on heavens door by Guns n' Roses IMO better than the Dylan version

Get off the forum you uneducated fool!!! I think this deserves a ban - anyone with me

All about opinions - but yours is wrong my friend!!!

 

Shame on you! Go stand in the corner and think long and hard about what you've just said!