re: The covers you prefer to the originals?

 uiucpat wrote:

Gary Jules - Mad World

Joe Cocker - Get By With a Little Help From My Friends

Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love

those are just a few

I actually made a CD a few years back that was half originals, half covers.  It was a neat mix I think, but got a bit redundant after a few plays.  I had it in a AABBCC etc. order

Uhhhm...Queen did not cover "Crazy Little Thing," they are the original artist. Freddie Mercury claimed to have written it in 10 minutes in the bathtub. He also was the lead guitarist in live performances, not his primary instrument.

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Gary Jules - Mad World

 Imogean Durden wrote:

And, I gotta admit, it doesn't compare to the original, and I usually, for some completely unknown reason, dislike when girls sing Beatles songs (it doesn't make any sense, because I'm a girl), but Across the Universe's version of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" is pretty adorable.

Funny enough, the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was Across the Universe (the song) by Fiona Apple. I always thought her version was much more ethereal than the Beatles version. It was from the Pleasantville soundtrack.

Rachid Tacha's "Rock El Casbah" is AMAZING. Sorry, Clash.

The video is great fun too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DbFYsi9iSg

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Yes! That's on that album, as well, and it's quite amusing. I work out to it a lot. XD

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I absolutely love what the Raconteurs did with Bang Bang by Nancy Sinatra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5VPL_PEp8s
White Lies have a badass cover of Kanye's Love Lockdown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7v5f54u2lw
Jeff Healey's cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps actually improves on a near perfect song
Cake's cover of Gloria Gaynor's classic I Will Survive is amazing!
My all time favorite cover is probably Rage Against The Machine's acoustic cover of Devo's Beautiful World...sooo out of their element but they nail it.
Thoughts?

 Imogean Durden wrote:

 Dover345 wrote:

I actually really like covers. It's kinda cool to hear a different interpretation of the song like the Perfect Circle version of Imagine. Sometimes I just like covers because they make me chuckle like Local H's version of Toxic (there's one I like better than the original). I have a whole playlist of covers. It's kinda a guilty pleasure sorta thing.

No, I know what you mean - I love covers. It's just that I rarely like them better than the original. In a different way, maybe, but rarely more. I have Local H's version of Toxic, actually. I have a whole album of metal covers of Britany Spears songs. Cracks me up, every time one of them comes up on my Zune.

Have you ever heard the Static Lullaby cover of Toxic?

I thought BTBAM's cover Album had some good covers.

 Dover345 wrote:

I actually really like covers. It's kinda cool to hear a different interpretation of the song like the Perfect Circle version of Imagine. Sometimes I just like covers because they make me chuckle like Local H's version of Toxic (there's one I like better than the original). I have a whole playlist of covers. It's kinda a guilty pleasure sorta thing.

No, I know what you mean - I love covers. It's just that I rarely like them better than the original. In a different way, maybe, but rarely more. I have Local H's version of Toxic, actually. I have a whole album of metal covers of Britany Spears songs. Cracks me up, every time one of them comes up on my Zune.

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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind, don't matter and those who matter, don't mind
~Dr. Seuss

I actually really like covers. It's kinda cool to hear a different interpretation of the song like the Perfect Circle version of Imagine. Sometimes I just like covers because they make me chuckle like Local H's version of Toxic (there's one I like better than the original). I have a whole playlist of covers. It's kinda a guilty pleasure sorta thing.

my mom is really into chris isaak so i remember her listening to wicked game a bunch growing up, and i remember really digging that song (and i still do), but then one day i heard a metal-ish version of it by some band called HIM, and since them i've become a big fan of HIM and i prefer there version

ORIGINALS!!!

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