Covers Better Than Originals

[Masterofreality]

MOR:

Thanks for the history (I had thought the Who did a version of Summertime Blues). Maybe I identified it with much of the "mindless thrashing" I engaged in my philosophy classes at XU like Dr. Gendreau's Existentialism class.

The amazing thing about Eddie Cochran is that he died at the age of 21 in a car accident while touring in England. He had another song that was covered by a famous group-

C'Mon Everybody was covered by the great rock/blues group Humble Pie in the 1970's.

[American X]

Yola released a Deluxe Edition of her album Walk Through Fire which includes an exquisite cover of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. I can't recommend the entire album enough.

[bjf123]

I don’t think this is better than the original, but I really like it.


https://youtu.be/u9Dg-g7t2l4


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[waggy]

Many have probably seen it, but Prince performing Creep..

[sirthought]

That Yola song — wow. Most of that album is Dan Auerbach doing his thing, but her voice is incredible.

[tacopizza885]

Tool - The Pot (Covered by Brass Against ft Sophia Urista) ... check out that sax player!
Bill Withers - Use Me (Covered by Fiona Apple)
Toto - Africa (Covered by Frog Leap Studios)
System of a Down - Toxicity (Piano cover by vkgoeswild)
Metallica - Fade to Black (Covered by Boy Sets Fire)
Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad (Covered by Rage Against The Machine)

EDIT: My God! Listed the Bill Withers cover, but not the Jimi Hendrix cover... which is probably her best!:

Jimi Hendrix - Angel (Covered by Fiona Apple)

[Mrs. Garrett]

I don't know if anyone here is a Mac Miller fan. I really wasn't until I heard a tribute album to him called "Good Morning" by Rayland Baxter. All covers and they're pretty good. Not saying that are better than the originals, but a cool perspective on them.

[boozehound]

Not sure if these count as covers, but I will submit the Bad Religion Christmas Album as being one of the better complications of rock covers of traditional Christmas songs.

[muskienick]

My go-to cover band is Leonid and Friends whose specialty is to cover Chicago hits. I strongly recommend you going to You Tube to watch the following: "Street Player,' 'Make Me Smile,' and 'Saturday in the Park.' "The Man" would not let me copy and paste the links here. Sorry. Their studio videos are great since the video and audio are much better than the videos taken in concert venues (of which there are many). Yes, they are Russians (but hugely talented ones)!

I forgot to mention that there is a bit of "eye candy" in many of their video. She is also very talented and has a huge following in Russia (of course) and China. She has worked solo gigs in Las Vegas and toured with Leonid and Friends on their tours of the U.S.

[XUGRAD80]

Not going to read through the whole thing, but doubt if anyone has mentioned The Troggs....Wild Thing. Wild Thing was originally written as a COUNTRY song by an Austin Texas songwriter.

And then Jimi Hendrix covered it because he was a fan of the Troggs.....a cover of a cover.