Hurt - Johnny Cash - original - Nine Inch Nails
This Flight Tonight - Nazareth - original - Joni Mitchell
In My Life - Johnny Cash - original - The Beatles
The Price of Love - Bryan Ferry - original - The Everly Brothers
You fuckers?
Re: Covered songs better than the original.
Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:44
by Pub Bigot
Whisky in a Jar - Metallica, which is the definitive version. I won’t have anyone say otherwise.
Mike Flowers - Wonderwall.
Reel Big Fish - Take on Me
Tainted Love - Marilyn Manson
Whetus - A Little Respect
Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver
Bruce Dickinson - The Zoo
Placebo - Running up that Hill
Re: Covered songs better than the original.
Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:42
by Swiss.
Re: Covered songs better than the original.
Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:39
by Swiss.
Re: Covered songs better than the original.
Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:35
by Swiss.
Re: Covered songs better than the original.
Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:32
by Swiss.
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
When The Levee Breaks - Led Zepplin
Re: Covered songs better than the original.
Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:30
by Swiss.
Easy win for me.
Re: Covered songs better than the original.
Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:29
by Gank
Jealous Guy - Roxy Music
Don't Leave Me This Way - Communards
Re: Covered songs better than the original.
Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:29
by Bungo
RBshorty wrote: ↑22 Sep 2025, 11:12
A couple post in. And nobody mentions.
All Along the Watchtower. Jimi Hendrix.!!!!
I think that pretty much ANY cover of All Along The Watchtower is better than the original...
Re: Covered songs better than the original.
Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:15
by the coming of gary
Blondie had plenty of great covers ;
Denis, Denis - Randy and the rainbows
The tide is high - John Holt
Hanging on the Telephone - The Nerves
.
Nick Heyward did a great version of 'Sounds from the Street' , by The Jam
.
Re: Covered songs better than the original.
Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:12
by RBshorty
A couple post in. And nobody mentions.
All Along the Watchtower. Jimi Hendrix.!!!!
Also.
Without You. Harry Nilsson. (Don’t mention Mariah. You cսnt’s.)
It Must Be Love. Madness.
Georgia On My Mind. Ray Charles.(Yes it’s cheating. But so is Thin Lizzy.)
Re: Covered songs better than the original.
Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:06
by violator
Seven Days Too Long - Dexys Midnight Runners
Re: Covered songs better than the original.
Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:01
by Lee Trundle
Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence
Re: Covered songs better than the original.
Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:00
by Bungo
Fields of Gold - Sting / Eva Cassidy.
Word Up - Cameo / Gun
Raining Blood - Slayer / Tori Amos (only joking)...
Re: Covered songs better than the original.
Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 10:59
by Mad Ferret
Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar.
Not sure who originally sang it, think it was some Irish folk song.
