Cover versions better than original (merged)

[Crouchinho]

 

[Deepest Blue]

Scott Walker - Amsterdam

But Jacques Brel's original is funnier.

 

[Deepest Blue]

Better than the Beatles original IMO.

 

[che_don_john]

Bowie's 'Amsterdam' > Jacques Brel original
Nirvana's 'Man Who Sold the World' > Bowie original
Perfect Circle's 'Ashes To Ashes' > Bowie original
RATM's 'Renegades of Funk' > Afrika Bambaataa original
Deftones 'Please, Please' > The Smiths original

 

[manctheknife]

Hugh Cornwell & Dr John Cooper Clarke............Love Potion No 9.

 

[oakiecokie]

Actually, I'm not sure this is "better" than the original..........but it's dead good nevertheless!!

Nah its OK but nowhere near as good as Booker T.

 

[oakiecokie]

Better than the Beatles original IMO.

One of the very few that is actually better than The Beatles ... IMO.

 

[oakiecokie]

This truly pisses over Norman greenbaulms effort
Doctor and the medics take an extended bow:



jesus unfriended me so I don`t have a friend in Jesus now !

Have to agree with you Taxi.Was never a lover of the original way back in the `70`s and this version just pisses all over it.

 

[urban genie]

 

[masterwig]

Deftones 'Please, Please' > The Smiths original

I think we already did a worst covers thread.

That's up there with Sugababes' Walk this Way.

 

[CTID1988]

 

[ballinio]

Hard rains a gonna fall .....Dylan , ferry's version is better

 

[ballinio]

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Beat me too it with dear prudence
siouxsie and the banshees Version is amazing and tops lennon's

2nded superb version

 

[Gelsons Dad]

Completely different to the point of being almost unrecognisable but a more appropriate interpretation of the lyric:


not sure if it's "better" but I like it just as much.

 

[che_don_john]

I think we already did a worst covers thread.

That's up there with Sugababes' Walk this Way.

Are you seriously likening Deftones - easily one the best alt.metal bands ever - to the Sugarbabes?!

 

[MCFCTrick]

I am slightly biased .... but .....

 

[normskih]

Oh my word, what a racket, sorry mate but there's no way this is a patch on the Sister Sledge original:)

 

[tiggsywiggsywoo]

Eleanor Rigby....Ray Charles
Dont Leave me this Way.....Communards

 

[Barcon]

Nirvana's 'Man Who Sold the World' > Bowie original

You must be fucking joking mate.

 

[Gelsons Dad]

Another contender for me: