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  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    jimmymelrose said:
    The best ever cover version imo is
     The Loved One by INXS


    I wouldn’t claim that any of these are ’better’ but they are versions not yet mentionned I really like:

    Lithium (Nirvana) by The Polyphonic Spree

    The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore by Keane
    - I don’t like to say better but I do think that Tom Chaplin sings it so well 

    An Arrow in the Wall by Churches (not really a cover entirely  (of a Death Cab for Cutie song)

    Fall on Me (REM) by Death Cab for Cutie

    Love is all Around Me by REM (I just love Mike Mills’s backing vocals)

    #9 Dream by REM

    Feels like Heaven (Fiction Factory) by Roosevelt

    The Fool On The Hill by Sig Ragga

    Eleanor Rigby by Pomplamousse




    Only heard the unplugged version which is fantastic.
    Im sure you meant lead vocals when mentioning Mike Mills, something I wish REM had used more. Near Wild Heaven is a beautiful song.
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,737
    Layin Up With Linda - Lemonheads cover of the GG Allin original.

    Like a Virgin - Teenage Fanclub


  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    Rush Hour (Jane Wiedlin) covered by Joyrider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3w0vyAl640
    Money (Barret Strong) covered by The Beatles
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    PopIcon said:
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    PeterGage said:
    The one time when Neil Diamond paid a tribute to John Lennon at a live concert - Golden Slumbers
    That's a Paul McCartney song, or am I missing something?

    Certainly McCartney.
    Well exactly, so how a tribute to John Lennon?
    You can dedicate a song to anyone. Lennon had only been dead a few years when Diamond recorded the medley.
    Well quite, but then the  reference to Lennon is irrelevant in the context of this thread which is "covers better than the original" where the poster is using the example of a Paul McCartney song.

    Neil Diamond covered a Beatles song and dedicated it to John Lennon.

    You're over thinking it.
    I'm trying to bloody forget about it, but you keep banging on  ;)
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,665
    edited November 2024
    The Passenger - Siouxsie and the Banshees
    Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - David Gray
  • Redskin
    Redskin Posts: 3,112
    edited November 2024
    Chunes said:
    I have an Uncle that says Rolf Harris does the best version of Stairway to Heaven. 
    Rolf Harris' idea of a Stairway to Heaven is to the first floor of a children's home.
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    With the passing of Quincy Jones, I was listening to his “I’ll be good to you” with Chaka Khan and Ray Charles on vocals.
    I didn’t realise it was originally a much slower song by The Brothers Johnson.
    Gotta say I prefer the more upbeat Chaka/Ray version but I don’t know if subconsciously I think of that as the original (if you get what I mean) and if I’d known the Brothers Johnson version, I’d think differently.
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,391
    Not sure its better but its pretty Damned good ( see what i did there )
    The Damned cover of LOVE Alone Again OR .
    https://youtu.be/nYVDN27CrOo

  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    I really liked The Damned's version of Eloise

    .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b31L4P7G5j8
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    The Band's cover of Marvin Gaye's "Baby Don't Do It"

    Northern Soul v Funky Americana
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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    charlton_hero said:

    Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - David Gray

    Absolutely no way! The original shits all over that cover. But then I've never liked David Gray's voice.
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,391
    Madness cover of Scritti Politti " The Sweetest Girl "
    https://youtu.be/DduE7ZtxPrs
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    Off_it said:
    charlton_hero said:

    Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - David Gray

    Absolutely no way! The original shits all over that cover. But then I've never liked David Gray's voice.
    100% in agreement. 

    The DG version is so slow I don’t think I even realise it was the same song until I’d heard it a few times. 
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    I'm losing you The Temptations 

    I'm losing you The Faces 
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,255
    edited November 2024
    Henry Irving said:
    The Band's cover of Marvin Gaye's "Baby Don't Do It"

    Northern Soul v Funky Americana
    Not really Northern, just club soul. (ie just general 6ts soul)

    Try Little Darling (The Flirtations also did a decent cover that was played on the Northern scene in the late 70s) or Love Starved Heart both great tracks played on the Northern scene by Marvin (Sorry off topic)
  • up_the_valley
    up_the_valley Posts: 4,186
    Who's Lovin' You - The Jackson 5
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,255
    Not saying this is better than The Drifters but love this by the great Leonard Cohen. Gutted I never saw him live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvSMhgqh7JU&list=RDMM&index=13

  • Redskin
    Redskin Posts: 3,112
    Johnny Cash's cover of Nick Cave's The Mercy Seat
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    charltonbob said:
    Not saying this is better than The Drifters but love this by the great Leonard Cohen. Gutted I never saw him live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvSMhgqh7JU&list=RDMM&index=13


    I saw him live a couple of times, the first time at the IoW in 1970 and the last in Manchester in 2013 - so 43 years apart but probably my most listened to artist in those intervening years! A remarkable talent and a remarkable man, illustrated in this alone.




  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,752
    I like that speech particularly the quote:
    ’The great inevitable defeat that awaits us all’

    It was interesting to hear how he learnt to play 🎸 

    I was quite ignorant of Leonard Cohen until I heard ’Suzanne ’ a few years ago and thought ’hey, that sounds like an REM song’ (being that I’m a big fan of REM, I recognised the similarity).

    That song is ’Hope’ from the album 'Up’

    Just as that led me to listen and enjoy more of Cohen’s music, I recommend all Leonard Cohen fans @charltonbob @bobmunro to listen to ’Hope’ and indeed more of the songs from the album which I consider Michael Stipe’ best writing. Just start with 'Suspicion’ (my favourite of all REM songs) and go on from there.
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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    I just heard Bastille's version of Merry Xmas Everybody and I thought it was well worth broadening out this thread for; cover versions that stink the place out. Also in this category any cover version of Tears For Fears excellent Mad World. 
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    Stranglers Walk on By
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    R E S P E C T by Aretha Franklin
    Black Magic Woman .. Santana, at least the equal of the P Green/F Mac original
  • DDOUBLEE
    DDOUBLEE Posts: 1,473
    Running Up That Hill - Placebo
  • larryorcolin
    larryorcolin Posts: 84
    Hounds of Love - The Futureheads
    Always on my mind - Pet Shop Boys

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