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  • Henry IrvingHenry Irving
    Hal1x said:
    Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
    Is that not the original?

    Certainly thought that was the first version released.
  • LargeAddickLargeAddick
    killerandflash said:
    An obvious one, The Beatles Twist and Shout
    Much prefer the Isley Brothers version.
  • LincsaddickLincsaddick
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee said:
    Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O’Connor although arguably it’s not a cover
    Prince wrote and recorded it
  • AmpshireAddickAmpshireAddick
    Mad world - Gary Jules 
  • LargeAddickLargeAddick
    Lincsaddick said:
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee said:
    Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O’Connor although arguably it’s not a cover
    Prince wrote and recorded it
    True, but it was never released as a single, album track only, Technically though Sinead’s version is a cover.
  • LincsaddickLincsaddick
    LargeAddick said:
    killerandflash said:
    An obvious one, The Beatles Twist and Shout
    Much prefer the Isley Brothers version.
    Isley's version of 'Summer Breeze' knocks out the (admittedly good) Seals and Croft original
  • Addick AddictAddick Addict
    Hold Back The Night - Graham Parker & The Rumour
    Red Red Wine - UB40
    Roll Over Beethoven - ELO
    Black Magic Woman - Santana
    Over The Rainbow - Eva Cassidy
    Let's Stick Together - Bryan Ferry
  • LincsaddickLincsaddick
    2 good versions .. 'Black Magic Woman' .. Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green) and the Santana cover on Abraxas
  • JohnnyJoeyDeeDeeJohnnyJoeyDeeDee
    Lincsaddick said:
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee said:
    Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O’Connor although arguably it’s not a cover
    Prince wrote and recorded it
    My thinking was he released it after Sinead but I see his band Family released it first
  • JohnnyJoeyDeeDeeJohnnyJoeyDeeDee
    Henry Irving said:
    Hal1x said:
    Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
    Is that not the original?

    Certainly thought that was the first version released.
    Yes it was
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  • Richard JRichard J
    Quite often the most famous version of a song is actually the cover.

    One good example of this is Without You where Harry Nilsson transformed an unknown Badfinger song.
  • JohnnyJoeyDeeDeeJohnnyJoeyDeeDee
    I only found out a couple of years ago that Wild is the wind by Bowie was a cover version. Johnny Mathis and Nina Simone both had earlier versions. Bowie version is fantastic 
  • LincsaddickLincsaddick
    'Hush' .. Deep Purple
  • cafcfancafcfan
    CarltonAthleticDance said:
    Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
    Handbags and Gladrags - Stereophonics
    I prefer the original version of Handbags - by Chris Farlowe.  

    Anyway my contribution two Robert Johnson songs Love in Vain by the Stones and Cross Road Blues (or Crossroads as they called it) by Cream.
  • raytreacy69raytreacy69
    Sorrow - first sung by the Mcoys
    Then covered by the Merseys but best version IMO was Bowie from his Pin Ups Album
  • Clem_SnideClem_Snide
    Teenage Fanclub - Like a Virgin
  • Clem_SnideClem_Snide
    Red Right Hand - Arctic Monkeys
  • carly burncarly burn
    I get absolute pelters for this whenever I say it, but I prefer Chaka Khan's version of 'I was made to love her/him' over the great Stevie W's version

    Ducks!
  • McBobbinMcBobbin
    Lincsaddick said:
    'Hush' .. Deep Purple
    Is that a cover? Anyway, preferred the Kula Shaker version :)
  • fadgadgetfadgadget
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee said:
    I only found out a couple of years ago that Wild is the wind by Bowie was a cover version. Johnny Mathis and Nina Simone both had earlier versions. Bowie version is fantastic 
    Billy McKenzie does a great cover of this .
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  • McBobbinMcBobbin
    Most dylan covers, but especially all along the watchtower by Hendrix, hey Mr tambourine man by the Byrd's and that one Adele did
  • Richard JRichard J
    McBobbin said:
    Most dylan covers, but especially all along the watchtower by Hendrix, hey Mr tambourine man by the Byrd's and that one Adele did
    I guess the best compliment is now Dylan 'covers' the Hendrix version at his concerts. Similarly I have seen Neil Diamond play a ' reggae vibe' version of Red , Red , Wine.
  • McBobbinMcBobbin
    I won't rest until Paul McCartney does the Chaka Demus version of twist and shout
  • bolloxbolderbolloxbolder
    David Watts - The Jam
    Police and thieves - The Clash
    Nostalgia - Penetration
    Help! - The Damned.
  • Captain_BirdseyeCaptain_Birdseye
    Apologies to all S Club fans on CL, but The Beautiful South’s version of Don’t Stop Movin’ is better.

    ’Better’ might be pushing it with these ones, but Careless Whisper by Ben Folds and Rufus Wainwright, and Music Sounds Better With You by Neil Frances.
  • ElfsborgAddickElfsborgAddick
    I Only Want To Be With You, The Tourists.

    The Bay City Rollers version was different!!!
  • CAFCTrevCAFCTrev
    Rocket Man - William Shatner
  • StigStig
    Dear Prudence - Soiuxsie & The Banshees
    Viva Las Vegas - Dead Kennedys
    Have I The Right - Dead Kennedys
    White Lightnin - The Fall
    Rollin Dany - The Fall
    The Day Before You Came - Blancmange
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