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.
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
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.
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)
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Im sure you meant lead vocals when mentioning Mike Mills, something I wish REM had used more. Near Wild Heaven is a beautiful song.
Like a Virgin - Teenage Fanclub
Money (Barret Strong) covered by The Beatles
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - David Gray
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.
The Damned cover of LOVE Alone Again OR .
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Northern Soul v Funky Americana
I'm losing you The Faces
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)