Music: Covers that are better than originals

[Banditbandit]

Baby Please don't go is much much older than AC/DC ...

here's a Blues version

[blue rider]

Summertime by Adele Adison



Summertime by Janis Joplin OMG

[Big Dave]

here's a Blues version

I've even seen them perform it live.

[Drunken Monkey]

Best comment:
"I heard a chick named Katty [sic] Perry made a parody of this band's song..."

[blue rider]

U2 - One



Johnny Cash

[ellipsis]

......wouldn't dare say this is better , but it's fantastically good...

[HenryDorsetCase]

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this'll make the purists spew.

better than any springsteen version.

Also, anyone got Wrecking Ball? Like/no like?

[HenryDorsetCase]

I've even seen them perform it live.

Shit, you probably saw Leadbelly doing "Black Betty" live. Not that I'm saying you're old........

[blue rider]

i think both deserve a Honda

Gloria Gaynor: I will survive




Cake: I will survive

[unstuck]

[blue rider]

awesome........lots of fun indeed.....

[Laava]

The Original


The cover

[pete376403]

Much preferable to Bob Dylans original (then again, most things Bob Dylan wrote are better done by someone else. He can write, but he sure as hell can't sing)



BTW Dylans version was played over the closing credits for the final episode of Walking dead season 1

[HenryDorsetCase]

This isn't better than the Velvet Underground original version (come on, what could be?) but stunning nonetheless:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMiqr...endscreen&NR=1

and a very worthy version by The Kills

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[bogan]

WT are doing a cover per week all 'fall' apparently, they do bloody good covers too