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  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,851
    fadgadget said:
     Bryan Ferry version of  , Jealous Guy
    Willy DeVille’s version is even better!

    In fact any cover by Willy DeVille is better.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,222
    Stuart_the_Red said:
    fadgadget said:
     Bryan Ferry version of  , Jealous Guy
    Willy DeVille’s version is even better!

    In fact any cover by Willy DeVille is better.
    His "mixed up shook up girl" is a classic and better than the good original.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    Telegram Sam - Bauhaus
    This is How it Feels - Carter USM
    Step On - Happy Mondays 
    Oh What an Atmosphere - Ted Chippington
    William Tell Overture - Wendy Carlos
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    Creep - Richard Cheese
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    Believe - DMA's originally by Cher -

    https://youtu.be/MmwFnoMoDDg?si=5qywR7l9djDm-zAB




    Running Up That Hill - The Wombats originally by Kate's Bush -

    https://youtu.be/e20W7aj5cxM?si=ReSfa4o2GMvzMmbh

  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    edited May 2024
    Kasabian done a blinding Insane In The Membrane on same channel, but it got pulled after Tom got the boot
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,518
    All along the Watchtower..Hendrix
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    bolloxbolder said:
    David Watts - The Jam

    Fuck off.
    The Kinks original had wit and charm and nuance.
    I love the Jam but their version was dull, colourless monotony.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Gribbo said:
    Kasabian done a blinding Insane In The Membrane on same channel, but it got pulled after Tom got the boot

    https://youtu.be/sLkU4N9AfVc?si=CytdAjcuf8z5LdUh
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Is that it @Gribbo
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  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,447
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    bolloxbolder said:
    David Watts - The Jam

    Fuck off.
    The Kinks original had wit and charm and nuance.
    I love the Jam but their version was dull, colourless monotony.
    Agreed. The Jam completely missed the point of the song.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    The original Girls and Boys by Blur is a Britpop classic, but I really like the Pet Shop Boys remix, and then the live version they did.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbzMiMsWtCI
  • hmmoore
    hmmoore Posts: 125
    Rockin all over the world-Status Quo 
  • Stefco
    Stefco Posts: 848
    Easy (The Commodores) - Faith No More
    War Pigs (Black Sabbath) - Faith No More
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,960
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    bolloxbolder said:
    David Watts - The Jam

    Fuck off.
    The Kinks original had wit and charm and nuance.
    I love the Jam but their version was dull, colourless monotony.
    Agreed. The Jam completely missed the point of the song.
    Well even Ray Davies said the Jam version was better than the original, so you two numbscales need to reign it in a bit with the insults to the world's greatest band.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,447
    bolloxbolder said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    bolloxbolder said:
    David Watts - The Jam

    Fuck off.
    The Kinks original had wit and charm and nuance.
    I love the Jam but their version was dull, colourless monotony.
    Agreed. The Jam completely missed the point of the song.
    Well even Ray Davies said the Jam version was better than the original, so you two numbscales need to reign it in a bit with the insults to the world's greatest band.
    I love the Jam but they utterly murdered this song.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,447
    edited May 2024
    Everything I own - Ken Boothe

    If you could read my mind - Johnny Cash(did some great cover versions in his later years)
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    bolloxbolder said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    bolloxbolder said:
    David Watts - The Jam

    Fuck off.
    The Kinks original had wit and charm and nuance.
    I love the Jam but their version was dull, colourless monotony.
    Agreed. The Jam completely missed the point of the song.
    Well even Ray Davies said the Jam version was better than the original, so you two numbscales need to reign it in a bit with the insults to the world's greatest band.
    If you think they were " the worlds greatest band" then I forgive you for being blinded by stupidity.
    If Ray Davies said that (which I doubt) then he was being generous, but rather less than honest.
    The Jam added nothing to the song, rather thay removed any charm it had
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,480
    edited May 2024
    Lincsaddick said:
    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
    Absolutely love the full album track where Ernie Isley plays an amazing lengthy guitar solo at the end..…..it’s top draw.
    DJ’s and radio stations very rarely play the album version…..mores the pity.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,480

    Another shout out for Sound of Silence by Disturbed absolutely stunning.
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  • Rock Spectacle
    Rock Spectacle Posts: 1,441
    Anything on Goldiggas (Beautiful South) especially Ciao, though have loads of covers they have done live.Lots of Carter ones. Oasis doing I am the Walrus has been committed to vinyl but a tad better live. Manics Theme from MASH. Don't know the original artist but Nellie the Elephant by The Toy Dolls is slightly livelier
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Everything I own - Ken Boothe

    If you could read my mind - Johnny Cash(did some great cover versions in his later years)
    'Hurt' is a prime example.

  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    'House of the Rising Sun' - The Animals
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    I appreciate that the Sound of Silence by Disturbed may be quite intense and a totally different take on the song, plus well produced. This should be applauded.

    Unfortunately for me, I don't really get raawwkk music with growly metal voices, so Simon and Garfunkel for me.

    I really liked The Lemonheads Mrs Robinson back in 92 and even started singing the Johnny Robinson song at Barnsley away, before we went back to The Valley.

    Simon and Garfunkel win here too though.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,370
    Oasis - Cum On Feel The Noize
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    Galaxie 500 - Ceremony (Joy Division-New Order)  .....or maybe equally as good
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,255
    edited May 2024
    Swans Love will tear us apart, red or black version, probably not better than Joy Division but equally as good (& I love Joy Division)
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,255
    cafctom said:
    Metallica are a brilliant covers band. 

    Their most known one is Whiskey In The Jar by Thin Lizzy, but they also played a great version of Funeral For A Friend/Loves Lies Bleeding by Elton John recently. 
    Behave, it's a traditional Irish song from way back, the Highwaymen had a hit in the US in the 60s & of course the Dubliners over here. (I appreciate you may be referring to a "rockier" version but it's just a cover of a cover of a cover ad infinitum)
  • stoneroses19
    stoneroses19 Posts: 7,220
    Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

    Having said that, the only time I have ever cried at a gig was watching Leonard Cohen perform it at Glastonbury 2008. A special experience. 
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,680
    edited May 2024
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    The Clash - I Fought the Law
    The Jam - Stoned out of my mind
    I bought 'I fought the law' by the Bobby Fuller Four in 1966 - a top ten hit!

    I was blissfully unaware of the original by Sonny Curtis and the Crickets until about five minutes ago.  Interesting acoustic guitar on that version.  I s'pose I'd better catch up with Clash's take on it now. 

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