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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Hal1x said:
    Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
    Is that not the original?

    Certainly thought that was the first version released.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,560
    killerandflash said:
    An obvious one, The Beatles Twist and Shout
    Much prefer the Isley Brothers version.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee said:
    Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O’Connor although arguably it’s not a cover
    Prince wrote and recorded it
  • AmpshireAddick
    AmpshireAddick Posts: 174
    Mad world - Gary Jules 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,560
    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.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    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 Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    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
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    2 good versions .. 'Black Magic Woman' .. Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green) and the Santana cover on Abraxas
  • JohnnyJoeyDeeDee
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee Posts: 1,040
    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
  • JohnnyJoeyDeeDee
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee Posts: 1,040
    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 J
    Richard J Posts: 8,032
    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.
  • JohnnyJoeyDeeDee
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee Posts: 1,040
    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 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    'Hush' .. Deep Purple
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    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.
  • raytreacy69
    raytreacy69 Posts: 955
    Sorrow - first sung by the Mcoys
    Then covered by the Merseys but best version IMO was Bowie from his Pin Ups Album
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,737
    Teenage Fanclub - Like a Virgin
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,737
    Red Right Hand - Arctic Monkeys
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,459
    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!
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Lincsaddick said:
    'Hush' .. Deep Purple
    Is that a cover? Anyway, preferred the Kula Shaker version :)
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,391
    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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  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    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 J
    Richard J Posts: 8,032
    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.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    I won't rest until Paul McCartney does the Chaka Demus version of twist and shout
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,960
    David Watts - The Jam
    Police and thieves - The Clash
    Nostalgia - Penetration
    Help! - The Damned.
  • Captain_Birdseye
    Captain_Birdseye Posts: 24
    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.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Someone should do some threads with videos of two versions of the same song by different artists so people can compare them and say which they prefer.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,037
    I Only Want To Be With You, The Tourists.

    The Bay City Rollers version was different!!!
  • franksav63
    franksav63 Posts: 23
    Eloise The Damned
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 5,978
    Rocket Man - William Shatner
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    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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