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Post by lordrockinhood on Aug 3, 2010 18:45:47 GMT -5
Here's a bunch of classic covers that I think are all equal to, if not better than, the originals. (And the Joe Cocker/Beatles already mentioned absolutely fits that description)
Artists who made the songs completely their own, without losing or ignoring the charms of the original, but rather adding to them.
You Really Got Me - Van Halen
Blinded By the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Because the Night - 10,000 Maniacs
Gloria - Patti Smith Band
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Redemption Song - Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer (Duet)
You Shook Me - Led Zeppelin
Blue Suede Shoes - Elvis Presley
Mony Mony - Billy Idol
California Girls - David Lee Roth
Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Cum On Feel The Noize - Quiet Riot
Once Bitten Twice Shy - Great White
Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Southern Man - Gov't Mule w/ Grace Potter Creep - Prince Warning Sign - Local Natives War Pigs - Faith No More Sunday Bloody Sunday - Saul Williams Hurt - Johnny Cash Rusty Cage - Johnny Cash Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails Across the Universe - Laibach Take It Easy - Eagles Train Kept A Rollin' - Aerosmith Tellegram Sam - Bauhaus
Post by steveternal on Aug 3, 2010 20:55:44 GMT -5
IMO, one of the best examples of one artist taking another's song and overshadowing the original is Whitney Houston's version of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You". The way she sings it, you'd think it was written with her voice in mind.
Sonic Youth's cover of "Superstar" needs to be mentioned. Yes, I know it wasn't first recorded by The Carpenters but it's really can't be separated from them and the tragedy of Karen's life. Such a eerie, yet beautiful take on the song.
Sorry, about the lame vid. Didn't want to use the Vevo link.
Southern Man - Gov't Mule w/ Grace Potter Creep - Prince Warning Sign - Local Natives War Pigs - Faith No More Sunday Bloody Sunday - Saul Williams Hurt - Johnny Cash Rusty Cage - Johnny Cash Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails Across the Universe - Laibach Take It Easy - Eagles Train Kept A Rollin' - Aerosmith Tellegram Sam - Bauhaus
No Quarter - Tool Am I Evil - Metallica The Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk - At The Drive In Things Behind The Sun - The Mars Volta Lay Lady Lay - Ministry Heroes - Richard James & Phillip Glass ( not really a cover, more a remix, but may as well be one) Sanity Assassin - Peter Murphy & Trent Reznor Suzanne - Nina Simone Sand - Einsturzende Neubauten (best Nancy Sinatra cover ever)
if you look i'm sure you'd see that nothing's really as it seems and soon enough you'd realize you promise more than you'll provide the substance that we're hoping for will always leave us needing more we're calloused til we cannot feel the only moments that were real
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, it was basically just the perfect marriage of both worlds to me!! ;D 
