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TV adverts have the annoying habit of playing songs that are covers of the originals but in a word cr@p ie the annoying TUI advert with a totally bolloxs version of Chaka Khan's Ain't Nobody but sometimes a cover version matches or exceeds the original. Three that come to mind and I like are Great White's cover of Rock n Roll - more Led Zeppelin than Led Zeppelin - Scorpions cover of The Who's I Can Explain and Rage's pumped up disco version of Bryan Adams Run To You 
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Little David Bowie's cover version of Bauhaus's groundbreaking 'Ziggy Stardust'.
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Si Cranstoun - Stand by Me
. https://youtu.be/EaKYPvtZSIg |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4mXoaEdd5c
Piggy in the middle |
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https://youtu.be/8nHwILs8bdo
To Ramona , Sinead Lohan |
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Stevie Wonder had a good crack at The Beatles 'We Can Work it Out'.
Likes a cover does Stevie, done loads of good uns. Elvis's epic 'Always On My Mind' is seen as the standard, but it was a Willie Nelson hit first. Must be a good track for covering as The Pet Shop Boys also did a nice version. Elvis, of course, was a serial coverer, particularly later in his career, in his Vegas live shows. His live 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' from this era is a spine tingler. |
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Rainbow's cover of "Since You've Been Gone"
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Hope thand stand by me call is a wind up!
All Saints - Under the bridge |
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Dear Prudence - Siousie and the Banshees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R77sby-ntgw Top of the Pops miming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R77sby-ntgw Video in Venice |
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Amy Winehouse's cover of 'Valerie'
Jimi Hendrix cover of 'All along the watchtower' was pretty decent. Shinade O'connor's version of 'Nothing compares to you' |
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Kwality calls there!
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...And to make a trio of '27' club killed by the Illuminate, Kurt Cobain with 'The man who sold the world'
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I can't say I am really a fan of either of these bands, but Guns and Roses did a very good cover of the UK Subs 'Down On The Farm'
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aEeii9aR6o |
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Pet Shop Boys - Always on My Mind
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Not saying this is better than the original but wow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcAerhkRfiQ Patti Smith |
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When the levee breaks Led Zep of course!
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Bruce's version of 'Chimes Of Freedom'.
https://youtu.be/G3onnJuBS18 |
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The Clash - I thought the law
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Richie Sambora - Deep Purple's 'When A Blind Man Cries'
Cracking vid too. |
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Some great ones here:
Jack White - Love is Blindness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJtEpKIPHm8 Maximo Park - Just Dance - Maximo Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44NUnH9t7G4 Ane Brun - All My Tears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNSBctmMI3k The White Stripes - Jolene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXlULkwhgrc Orange Crush - The Editors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtoteiB05nU&list=RDrtoteiB05nU#t=134 Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4 REM - First We Take Manhattan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9PrGQAE8Mo&list=PLa6VNVOUvpL1d0IGRL7XqDegwEJmTceEf&index=129 |
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The Clash did loads of decent covers after they ran out of ideas after the first two albums. However, Jimi doing 'All along the Watchtower' is the best, because he lifts an already great song to another level.
Whilst it is unfashionable to approve of U2, their version of 'Helter Skelter' deserves a mention, v good imo. |
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Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah( as mentioned before.)
johnny Cash - The First time ever i saw your face (Roberta Flack version is excellent too) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdSIlVZhsDw&list=RDEdSIlVZhsDw&t=27 First Aid Kit - America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBwKp6QhIvE |
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Eloise - The Damned.
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Johnny Cash's version of Hurt must be right up there. Particularly as the original is really quite terrible.
anyway, Grant Lee Buffalo - For the Turnstiles (Neil Young) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cy6YZXBB08 The Fall - Victoria (The Kinks) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0I2u6DKnwI The Lovemongers - Battle of Evermore (Led Zeppelin) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWhf98pFeUs |
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Neil Diamond - Midnight train to Georgia
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Here's an odd one. A live version, which is better than their cover version, which is better than the original (Bob Marley)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjWKy_tbQSs Stiff Little Fingers - 'Johnny Was' (Hanx Live) |
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nina simone .....sinner man......now used by tv stations to advertise their shows
righteous brothers....unchained melody cyndi lauper...girls just wanna have fun travis ...baby one more time |
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mark ronson / daniel merriweather....... stop me
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Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah - horrible song. Lilac Wine not much better. Incredibly overrated album.
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Connie Talbot's version of "Heroes" much better than Alesso's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH3W3hJq09E |
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Ruby Tuesday - Melanie Safka @Rolling Stones
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9alAuYr2g_8 |
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Miley Cyrus - Jolene
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wOwblaKmyVw |
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Highway to hell Skindred @ac/dc
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Sam Fox /Cars
just kidding |
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Tom Jones version of Lonnie Donegan's "Fall in love."
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xmoneyx • March 2, 2018 1:53 AM GMT
Ruby Tuesday - Melanie Safka @Rolling Stones Good call. I've discovered a couple of other good tracks she's done. Good voice, she can really belt those songs out. |
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Talking of the Melanie...
The Worzels - Combined Harvester |
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Not really!
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A cover song is just somebody leaching off somebody else imo. The original, like it or not, cannot be bettered. It is what it is and stands by it's very being. Having said that, were it not for those totally bereft of the ability to write we wouldn't have pop-music.
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