Cover Songs That Kick The Original

[doug535]

Another cover, of a cover made by famous by Dobie Gray, and covered again by Uncle Kracker, "Drift Away"
https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=uncle+kracker+drift+away

 

[warren]

Willie's cover of "Always on My Mind."

 

[rick3wood]

the WHO’s version of Mose Allison “Young man Blues”

 

[LOREN]

I think Aerosmith's cover of the Beatles "Come Together" is better than the original.

 

[Merton]

Carmine Appice, a tremendous drummer and the late Tim Bogert on bass

 

[brian64]

I'm not generally into covers, but there are always exceptions...and at the top of the exception list is the Queen of covers...Linda. In particular, her stellar album Simple Dreams.

She owns these two as far as I'm concerned...yes even the Stones cover is better than the original IMO. The only exception on the album is maybe Carmelita...I think I still prefer Zevon's original of that one.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Doesn’t make the original any less awesome, but this is awesome.

 

[rmpeeps]

Carmine Appice, a tremendous drummer and the late Tim Bogert on bass

I’ll toss in Superstition from Beck, Bogart, and Appice over Stevie Wonder’s.

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

Hendrix and Metallica are the kings of covers. The Beatles were upset when Hendrix played the entire Sgt. Pepper album live less than a week after the release.

Johnny Cash with Hurt.

Quiet Riot with various Slade songs (Cum On Feel the Noize).

Various covers of Louie, Louie (which I believe is the most covered, recorded song of all time).

The NIB albums (both I and II) have some of the best Black Sabbath covers ever (Supernaut is amazing) by major bands.

 

[DesertDan]

Pretty much any cover by Govt Mule.
SRV's covers of Superstition and Little Wing
Phil X and the Drills do great covers. I really like their cover of Black Sabbath's Faries Wear Boots.
I have never been a fan of Marylin Manson, but his cover of Tainted Love is great.
A band called Bort do a cover of Everyone Wants to Rule the World that I am very fond of.
Rush did a full album of covers called Feedback that is awesome.
Leo Moracchioli has made a career of doing fantastic covers.
Post Modern Jukebox is a great site for excellent covers.

 

[newbroom]

Jr Walker's Shotgun and Steve Winwood's Roll With It sound awfully similar somehow.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Not wanting to knock Jimi's version, but Stevie Ray Vaughan's Voodoo Chile is just a superb rendition of it.

Jay.

 

[ssjones]

This is one of my favorites. It's difficult to top LZ and I don't claim this does. But, it's really great.

Great cover, I don't understand the LZ reference.

 

[Buzz Saw]

I think Aerosmith's cover of the Beatles "Come Together" is better than the original.

I have to be careful here, but any cover of a Beatles song by anyone is going to be better than the original.

 

[newbroom]

Unintentionally encountered this cover of a Charlie Daniels, maybe the Charlie Daniels hit:
I'm not even familiar with this band but I checked it out and it's pretty wild electric guitar.

 

[PaulRVA]

I have to be careful here, but any cover of a Beatles song by anyone is going to be better than the original.

I was just coming in here to say
Jerry Garcia’s version of Dear Prudence

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Hands down, Dave Edmonds kills it, Elvis phones it in.

This is an odd situation—Elvis wrote the song, but Dave recorded and released it first; is Elvis’s version the cover?

 

[Elric]

It might just be the video but I love Broken Peach's version of "Don't You Want Me" better than the original. This was released for Halloween a couple years ago.

 

[Bananacaravanadium]

Punch Brothers covers of Another New World by Josh Ritter and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. Originals are also incredible of course.

 

[Elric]

I was just coming in here to say
Jerry Garcia’s version of Dear Prudence

Siouxie and the Banshees did an interesting version as well