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Covers That Outdo the Original

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posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 05:25 PM
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I never knew what a painful song "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" was until I heard this raw but layered version by The Slits.

I think the punk and even reggae notes in this one add a layer of anguish/anger missing in the motown versions (though I love motown, this song never really did it for me before).

What a great, fun cover.
Feel free to post some covers you think were better than their inspiration

Happy Sunday!

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posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 05:28 PM
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a reply to: zosimov

Sound of silence by disturbed was an amazing cover, 100 times better than the original, imo.


Peace.

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posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 05:30 PM
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a reply to: zosimov
Of course this cover is one of the greatest of all time:



posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 05:33 PM
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a reply to: Lichter daraus

I love that cover. I don't even like Disturbed that much, and really like Simon and Garfunkel's version, but that's a beautiful cover.


ETA: Peace

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posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 05:41 PM
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I love this Kid Cudi cover:



posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 05:45 PM
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a reply to: Lichter daraus

Yes, I was just thinking of that very song.
It is so deliciously painful.



posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 05:45 PM
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While you can't really outdo this original, I love the take on this one:
(sorry you'll have to follow the link--Apolcalyptica's Hall of the Mountain King)


Hope this link works
The song starts at about 2:30 though
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posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 05:48 PM
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a reply to: zosimov
Sorry, don't care for that version, however, IMHO, this is the best rendition of "Grapevine"...

There's a longer version by CCR, too, I just posted the short one.

This is a campy song about Mickey, lol. What I did not know is that its a cover for an earlier song called "Kitty".

Toni Basil's rendition...

Ear worms, for sure!!

Where I learn things like this...
College of Rock presided over by none other than the Professor of Rock...

Havin' Fun!



posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 05:50 PM
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The original of Under Pressure with Bowie and Freddie Mercury is awesome.
But it pales in comparison to the version with Gail Anne Dorsey.


www.youtube.com...

With his amazing range, I also think that the Bowie version of Wild is the Wind is superior to that of the original by Nina Simone.

www.youtube.com...



posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 05:53 PM
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a reply to: NightFlight

I'll enjoy checking these out! Imo that Creedence cover is an awesome song, but it almost sounds too happy for the material.
I believed the Slits singer when she said she was just about to lose her mind, lol.
Though I'll bet the music itself is a matter of taste, and the music of CCR is impossible to top.



posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 05:58 PM
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I see Puddles come up a lot in conversations about great covers
and that's because it's just very good (once again, captures the lyrics very well, being a little crazy (we're all mad here kind of "mad world") as well as the sorrow the original depicted.)

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posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 06:06 PM
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I grew up in the '50s and came of age in the '60s especially with two older sisters. I got double dosed with country and rock. 1959 was a sad year when the music really did die. I remember that day.

Things changed in the early '60s, it seemed everything changed after that. Television, FM radio came of age, I remember when the FM station in Columbia started stereo. Couldn't tell it was stereo until I got my own receiver in 1970.

My father loved the big bands and it was still big in the '50s...

Myself, I like music like this...

and this...



posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 06:13 PM
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a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

Great David Bowie songs.



posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 06:16 PM
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a reply to: zosimov

I love Puddles. I haven't heard one that is not an equil or better take on the original.

If we can include instrumentals, might I suggest the Harp Twins.



Another I discovered on YouTube that I haven't heard a bad one from.

And then there is Cybertronic Spree.



Also a great cover group.


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posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 06:17 PM
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a reply to: NightFlight

Those are fabulous. I like music like that as well. And music like this for guitar:

and this too

adding another:


well I love many types of music. The songs you posted were great. Thank you!

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posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 06:26 PM
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Jeff Buckley really does Van the Man justice




posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 06:28 PM
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a reply to: BeyondKnowledge3

That Zeppelin cover is great



posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 06:33 PM
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a reply to: zosimov

Those are great. I like how we are covering a lot of types of music.

How about the cover song Henry the Eighth.



From the original.

archive.org...

A little staticy but it is from a 1911 wax cylinder.



posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 06:43 PM
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a reply to: BeyondKnowledge3

How fun
thanks for posting the original as well.

Agreed about the variety, I like it!! Might be something for most tastes on here

I love this song



Don't usually like modern country music so much but I do love this cover: (this one's for the country fans
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posted on Jan, 7 2024 @ 06:47 PM
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