Covers that are at least as good as the original

[averagejoe]

Everyone raves over Van Halen's cover of the Kinks' You Really Got Me (and I agree it is a classic), but if you can find the cover of the Kinks' Who'll Be The Next In Line by the lesser known The Hounds... you'll never want to hear the Kinks' original again.

Kinks' 1965 original:

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The Hounds' 1979 cover:

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[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

None too much better than this Beatles cover...

 

[txTIGER1963]

local cover band....
one cool ass dude on guitar here...

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

An old gospel classic...redone instrumentally,& psychedelicized for your pleasure.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

original...

cover....

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Original....



Cover....

 

[navamind]

original:

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Original:

Dizzy


Cover:

Phish

 

[KnightAndDay]

Dont know if posted already but


Blacktop Mojo's Dream On >>>>>>>>>> the Aerosmith original

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Solid jazz version of the Nirvana tune...

Charlie Hunter Trio


Charlie Hunter - 8 String Guitar
Dave Ellis - Tenor Sax
Jay Lane - Drums

 

[wood20ks]

 

[wood20ks]

xxxxxxxxxx

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

* L.C. was also on the original Steel Dan track, as well as other tunes on the Aja album....

 

[DarthVedder]

Nightwish - Phantom of the Opera

The original is from a broadway play.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Great cover version by Alice Cooper....



Original version...written for her by Rolf Kempf

 

[averagejoe]

Aint That a Shame



Top of the World - originally done by the Carpenters

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

The original written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King in '68



Awesome cover by the Byrds was also part of the soundtrack for Easy Rider.




No I'd rather go and journey
Where the diamond crescent's glowing
And run across the valley
Beneath the sacred mountain
And wander through the forest
Where the trees have leaves of prisms
And break the light in colors
That no one knows the names of

And when it's time I'll go and lay
Beside the legendary fountain
'Till I see her form reflected
In its clear and jewelled waters
And if you think I'm ready
You may lead me to the chasm
Where the rivers of our visions
Flow into one another

I will want to dive beneath the white cascading waters
She may beg, she may plead, she may argue with her logic
And mention all the things I'll lose
That really have no value in the end she will surely know
I wasn't born to follow

 

[TheDayMan]

We ever get this one?


Settles that whole classic vs current rock thing too.

 

[Wunder.Noid]

 

[fear and loathing]