Cover songs that are better than (or as good as) the original

[Aucoq]

Totally agree with you on this one. 

Also, some of the stuff from the eighties was bizarre and comical in their seriousness.

I can't remember where I read it, but I was reading a Corey Hart interview a while back and he mentioned something about that.  He was talking about Sunglasses At Night and, looking back on it now, if he could do it all over again he probably wouldn't have taken the subject matter so seriously.   

I think a lot of New Wave covers fall short because that 80s, synth-feel of the songs was kind of essential.  There are exceptions of course.  I forget the name of the band, but there was this Chill-out, loungey kind of band that did a decent cover of Blue Monday, and I also liked Frente's version of Bizarre Love Triangle. 

I agree completely, my friend.

I forget the name of the band, but there was this Chill-out, loungey kind of band that did a decent cover of Blue Monday ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX_9TnAU3s8

That one?

I don't know if that's the one RWHN is talking about.  But I kind of like it.  It's definitely relaxing.

[AFK]

No, I remember now, it was Flunk:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyjNCFje8bc
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[Dildo Argentino]

Uh, in that case:

Nouvelle Vague: Too Drunk To Fuck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hapufz1NFkY

and also

Jaco Pastorius: Blackbird

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd6DTRywF7Q

and also, but this one for laughs:

Baba Yaga: Back in the USSR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqFK3WeLySA

[LMNO]

Speaking of Manson, here's Rasputina kicking Tourniquet in the nuts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXyGoHspSE

[EK WAFFLR]

Speaking of Manson, here's Rasputina kicking Tourniquet in the nuts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXyGoHspSE

I absolutely adore Rasputina.


Richard Cheese's version of Gin & juice is also vastly better than Snoop (Doggy) Dogg-Lion's.

[Dildo Argentino]

Dr. Lonnie Smith - Come Together

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGs043OSJeY

[Dildo Argentino]

The Soggy Bottom Boys - Man of Constant Sorrow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08e9k-c91E8

[Dildo Argentino]

Then there's this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREKkAk628I

[Cainad (dec.)]

Song: Vulgaris Magistralis

The cover, by Heidevolk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reOLeLX0Q9U

This is one of my favorite songs to listen to in the car on long trips.


The original, by Normaal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa9XycdY3ws

This... not so much.

[MMIX]

Gotye's original always makes me laugh and singalong flat out if I'm in the car. The cover though, that makes me smile with satisfaction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Gotye's original always makes me laugh and singalong flat out if I'm in the car. The cover though, that makes me smile with satisfaction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M

I loved that!

I am mildly disturbed that the original makes you laugh.

[Dildo Argentino]

Gotye's original always makes me laugh and singalong flat out if I'm in the car. The cover though, that makes me smile with satisfaction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M

I loved that!

I am mildly disturbed that the original makes you laugh.

I hate to disagree again... 

(which, by the way, does not in any way reflect on my attitude towards the Nigel Most High)

It's a god-awful song, and that hat-trick of six people playing one guitar is getting sooo old...

I mean, can't they afford instruments, or what?

That song does have a very funny cover, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6W7Y-hUOZQ

[Bu🤠ns]

Gotye's original always makes me laugh and singalong flat out if I'm in the car. The cover though, that makes me smile with satisfaction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M

I loved that!

I am mildly disturbed that the original makes you laugh.

That was great!  I loved the dude at the far right. 

[MMIX]

Gotye's original always makes me laugh and singalong flat out if I'm in the car. The cover though, that makes me smile with satisfaction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M

I loved that!

I am mildly disturbed that the original makes you laugh.

I guess I just have a sick sense of humour or something. Every time I hear the male character in the song start whining about how his ex got somebody else to pick up her records and had to change her phone number I just start giggling at the ridiculousness of a guy who is apparently a scary nutjob trying to act like the injured party. I love those moments in art [and life] when someone is totally oblivious to the incongruity of their external and internal worlds.

[Freeky]

Gotye's original always makes me laugh and singalong flat out if I'm in the car. The cover though, that makes me smile with satisfaction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M

I loved that!

I am mildly disturbed that the original makes you laugh.

I guess I just have a sick sense of humour or something. Every time I hear the male character in the song start whining about how his ex got somebody else to pick up her records and had to change her phone number I just start giggling at the ridiculousness of a guy who is apparently a scary nutjob trying to act like the injured party. I love those moments in art [and life] when someone is totally oblivious to the incongruity of their external and internal worlds.

He's the one who changed his number, not her.