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[Fallout-NL]

Holy crap. I feel stupid . . . I thought most of those were originals.

Cindy Lauper did make that shit her own though.

Wasn't aware either however, thanks bishopcruz.

Cover: LORDE - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Original: Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

'better than the original songs'

 

[Icomp]

I'm a marionette

Original: Abba

Cover: Ghost

Come to think of it. All the covers Ghost did is better than the original

While my guitar gently weeps

Original: The Beatles

Cover: Joe Walsh

 

[MrPing1000]

Led Zeppelin - Your Time is Gonna Come

Dread Zeppelin - Your Time is Gonna Come

So much better. They may be a novelty band, but it wouldn't work if they couldn't nail that shit.

 

[tokyostomp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxWzsrj8bZE


Real answer

Paranoid Android

Radiohead (Original)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnfXvPBV1dA

Weezer (Cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nTo8rjo-lM



God Tier

Berlin - Sex (Original)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luMoGdwixTM

Rorschach Test - Sex (Cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJmZdFjMREc

 

[HiResDes]

GALAXIE 500 - DON'T LET OUR YOUTH GO TO WASTE [JONATHAN RICHMAN COVER]

GALAXIE 500 - Isn't It A Pity (George Harrison Cover)

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

People never believe me when I recommend the Shatner version too. The most unexpectedly legit great cover by Shatner that is great for reasons besides Shatner being Shatnery. I love Pulp and prefer the Shatner/Ben Folds version.

It's a really strange sensation to enjoy a song with Shatner in an unironic way. When the two singers start singing at the same time it's really good. Backup vocals too.

 

[Vast.]

'better than the original songs'

oh please, the tears for fears version sounds like a teeny bop song compared to Lorde's version. And typically I like the 80s originals, but the music and sound of the new version really is makes it a whole another song.

Anyway, another one...
Original: Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
Cover: Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah

Cut out Jeff Buckleys, since it was already posted. I prefer Rufus Wainwright's version anyway.

 

[HiResDes]

Someone already posted The Buckley cover, and you're totally wrong about the Lorde one.

 

[jambo]

The Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends

Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends

It's so different and I love it. Huge Beatles fan as well.

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt.

"I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. I felt like I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore... It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. Somehow that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning - different, but every bit as pure." -Trent Reznor

Land of Confusion

Original by Genesis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZujuYiweht8

Cover by Disturbed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOP6XN45OEk

I'm sorry, but no.

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal

 

[AzureSkies]

Gamma Ray's It's a Sin is better than the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o80fZEwJ_6I

Such a good cover, seriously.

Luca Turilli - I'm Alive (Helloween cover)
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiZoGwXcP50

The original just sounds dated and incredibly muffled.

I'm sorry old sport, but you're wrong.

 

[robinsxe]

Ignite - Sunday Bloody Sunday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jn5AslRvko

Graveworm - Losing My Religion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZxLz_x6YMM

STS - Cut Me Off (Somebody that I Used to Know) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPwHRNWJVvk

 

[OrlanisWorks]

oh please, the tears for fears version sounds like a teeny bop song compared to Lorde's version.

the tears for fears version sounds like a teeny bop song

Oh... oh dear.

Spoiler

lol

 

[Mr. Enigma]

I've always enjoyed Drain STH's version of "Ace of Spades" over Motorhead's.

 

[kirblar]

I like the Disturbed version over the Genesis one- I think this may boil down to style preferences (I'm really not a giant '80s fan.)

 

[GhaleonEB]

Cover: LORDE - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Original: Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

That is seriously one of the worst covers I've ever heard. Mumbling delivery, limp music. None of the joy in the original.

To contribute, the original version of Torn was not that great. Cover here.

 

[HTupolev]

Mad World
Original by Tears for Fears
Cover by Gary Jules

I actually sort of disagree with this one. Jules' version sounded phenomenal when I first heard it, but it got old on my ears. I actually first heard the TFF original after the Jules version, and at first I didn't like it, but it's never stopped growing on me. A lot of TFF songs have been like that for me, really.

They're two very different pieces of music, though.

Cover: LORDE - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Original: Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

:/

 

[Chainsawkitten]

Complete mood change covers (to a mood I personally tend to prefer).

Original: The Stooges - I Want to be Your Dog

Cover: The World of Skin - I Want to be Your Dog

I also really fucking love Nadja's cover of Dead Skin Mask but the YouTube quality is really not doing it any justice.

 

[Jaffaboy]

Cancer Bats - Sabotage

Original by Beastie Boys

I mean, I love the original but man, the cover is just too good.

 

[Ovid]

The Way You Do The Things You Do

I like the original:
The Temptations

But I think the cover is better:
UB40

 

[HiResDes]

This is almost as good as the Love version, almost...

Calexico - Alone Again Or

 

[Arjen]

Original.

Lykke Li - I follow rivers.
http://youtu.be/vZYbEL06lEU
Probably better known in this Magican Remix
http://youtu.be/RTYENABdvYQ

Cover by Triggerfinger.
http://youtu.be/fzWQV5OiQQQ

 

[tokyostomp]

Cancer Bats - Sabotage

Original by Beastie Boys

I mean, I love the original but man, the cover is just too good.

 

[Psychoward]

Cover: LORDE - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Original: Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

I'm done. Done.

 

[Fallout-NL]

Someone already posted The Buckley cover, and you're totally wrong about the Lorde one.

Cheers Des

 

[ReignofSparrows]

I'm a marionette

Original: Abba

Cover: Ghost

Come to think of it. All the covers Ghost did is better than the original

While my guitar gently weeps

Original: The Beatles

Cover: Joe Walsh

I actually prefer Ghost's cover of "Here Comes the Sun," and I grew up loving The Beatles.

 

[Vast.]

I actually sort of disagree with this one. Jules' version sounded phenomenal when I first heard it, but it got old on my ears. I actually first heard the TFF original after the Jules version, and at first I didn't like it, but it's never stopped growing on me. A lot of TFF songs have been like that for me, really.

They're two very different pieces of music, though.

:/

Funny thing is I agree with you entirely about Mad World. But for the life of me I can't like the Tears for fears music for 'Everybody wants to rule the world'. Lorde's vocals might be muted and average but the grim and somber tone of the new version is far more appealing to me.

Try making this video with the Tears for Fears Original (Game of Thrones Show Spoilers)

Is this a joke? This has to be a joke.

That was terrible. It has no emotion, nothing.

It's kinda the point bruh. Slow, somber and muted.

 

[Ovid]

Cover: LORDE - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Original: Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Is this a joke? This has to be a joke. That was terrible. It has no emotion, nothing.

EDIT: Is this real life? People praising the Lorde version in the YT comments!?

 

[Jordan]

Original - Lil Jon - Get Low
Cover - Dan Henig - Get Low

Not quite an official release, but sounds so much better than the original.

 

[Chuckie]

Original: Live and let die - Paul MCCartney
Cover: Live and let die - Guns 'n Roses

 

[B.O.O.M]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hwiCkU73NA (Don't let me be misunderstood)

Better than the original by a mile

edit: The original, which is also great really, by The Animals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vstNm5xzuKM

 

[diggler41]

This is almost as good as the Love version, almost...

Calexico - Alone Again Or

I actually prefer The Damned Version even if it's kinda cheesy lol

 

[jambo]

I like the Disturbed version over the Genesis one- I think this may boil down to style preferences (I'm really not a giant '80s fan.)

Yeah, people shouting "wah wah" is way better than 80s music...

 

[Poyunch]

Al Green's version of I Want to Hold Your Hand.

 

[Fallout-NL]

Original: Live and let die - Paul MCCartney
Cover: Live and let die - Guns 'n Roses

Yeah!

I was always a big fan of this cover:

The Skyliners - Since I don't have you

to

Guns 'n Roses - Since I don't have you

 

[bishopcruz]

Captain Nemo - Dive

not bad but:

Captain Nemo - Sarah Brightman

was just amazing.

and while I have trouble saying that these are absolutely better than their originals, they are right up there with them:

Sarah Brightman - Scarborough Fair

though I suppose that pretty much any recorded version of this song is a cover.

Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen

was covered by her too:

Who Wants to Live Forever - Sarah Brightman

I mean, she makes her living off of a lot of covers each album, but damn is she good at it.

 

[AzureSkies]

Original: Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Cover: The Darkness - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

The Darkness' cover is just more of my thing.

 

[HiResDes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hwiCkU73NA (Don't let me be misunderstood)

Better than the original by a mile

I'll take the Nina Simone version over that, for sure

 

[diggler41]

I like the Disturbed version over the Genesis one- I think this may boil down to style preferences (I'm really not a giant '80s fan.)

I like the Genesis version alot. I prefer the In Flames cover more than the Disturbed take. Still Genesis is best. That weird video haunts me.

 

[Ovid]

It's kinda the point bruh. Slow, somber and muted.

I grew up with the Tears For Fears version and the Lorde version sounds like shit. I guess I'm an old man yelling at the clouds.

Nothing against the people that like it though.

 

[HiResDes]

Al Green's version of I Want to Hold Your Hand.

YES!

 

[B.O.O.M]

I'll take the Nina Simone version over that, for sure

I personally like this version and the original over that. But all three has their own flavor to it so you really can't go wrong with either

 

[wanderingprostheyltite]

Some ya'll might call blasphemy on this but I think Tool's cover of No Quarter beats Zepp's original by a country mile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJm8fZ6WS5Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZKIfCJZvZo

 

[diggler41]

I'm a marionette

Original: Abba

Cover: Ghost

Come to think of it. All the covers Ghost did is better than the original

While my guitar gently weeps

Original: The Beatles

Cover: Joe Walsh

Hmmmmm. I do prefer their version of Roky Erickson's If You Have Ghosts

 

[Fallout-NL]

Original: Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Cover: The Darkness - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

The Darkness' cover is just more of my thing.

Hah, that's not bad


What do you think of this?

(videos kinda NSFW btw)

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

to

Him - Wicked Game

 

[.Anema]

The Cars - Drive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuZA6qiJVfU

Cover by Deftones, way better in my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHiP3_-N0Vc

!

 

[diggler41]

Hah, that's not bad


What do you think of this?

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

to

Him - Wicked Game

Mid 2000s me - oh yeah HIM way better!

Adult me - Chris Isaak all the way

lol

 

[OrlanisWorks]

Funny thing is I agree with you entirely about Mad World. But for the life of me I can't like the Tears for fears music for 'Everybody wants to rule the world'. Lorde's vocals might be muted and average but the grim and somber tone of the new version is far more appealing to me.

Try making this video with the Tears for Fears Original (Game of Thrones Show Spoilers)

It's kinda the point bruh. Slow, somber and muted.

I actually tried watching that video and I closed it about twenty seconds in because of that song. And of course the original wouldn't fit, don't be silly.

 

[bomma_man]

Spoons's Don't You Evah is a cover

 

[FinalD]

Shinedown - Simple Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgFQ6WmxdMs

Best cover ever.

What? No.

The other way around: I like Lynyrd's T for Texas better than the original yodel song.

 

[B.O.O.M]

Dear lord, no.

Viva la Vida

Coldplay

Pet Shop Boys

well shit..I didn't even know it was a cover. Pet shop Boys were so awesome damn


I know this is not the best place to ask but would any of you know a song, it was all black and white and it's a kid in a vehicle staring outside as the scenery passes him by. It's all music no words. I just remember this music video from the back of mind from ages ago..just can't put a name to it. Rather than make a new thread I thought I would try my luck here