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    What cover songs have you heard that you think are better than the original version, and which ones do you find an assault on the eardrums?

    Best for me has to be :-
    Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
    Dear Prudence - Siouxsie and the Banshees
    UB40 - Red, Red, Wine

    Worst:-
    Rolf Harris - Stairway to Heaven (this version is a travesty to the Led Zep version)
    Bananarama - Venus
    LIFE is a four letter word, but which one...?

  • #2
    I prefer most Ub40 covers to originals
    i need time to think about best and worse though as i know of many i'll get back to this thread.
    No man is worth your tears - and the one who is wont make you cry!

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    • #3
      Someone did an excellent Make It With You ( orig. by david Gates ) mid90s. UB40's Red Red Wine is up there, as are Tears of a Clown & Can't Get Used to Losing You , both by the Beat.
      Worst ? Anything, really, by Boyzone but my choice would be their mutilation of the Bee Gees' Words, where they left out half of each verse ! Class.
      Into the 5th Millennium & beyond...!

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      • #4
        that's amore by that modern chap. forgot his name. sounded alright to start off with then went stupid in the middle. went down hill after that.
        Van_Whistler (too young to understand - old enough to know better)

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        • #5
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          gotta admit i prefer most originals, but the imediate worst cover song i can think of is brittney spears version of i love rock and roll, and, scissor sistors comfortably numb

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          • #6
            Re: Better or worse Cover songs?

            ummm

            best list

            spirit in the sky was pretty cool better than the original and must agree dear prudence rocks my socks for a cover. i fought the law by the clash is far far better than the original and also renditions of something else and c'mon every body by Sid Vicous we really amazing improvements

            as for total ****

            britney takes the p*** and any tune they copied and put a rap bit in the middle too
            Love is an invention by bank managers to keep you overdrawn - Rick Mayall/ The Young Ones

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            • #7
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              There's been a few over the years good and bad. I always like to annoy my kids when they are raving about a song and i bring our the original version, he he. For a start I would go for Roxy Musics Jealous Guy and the Stereophonics Handbags and Gladrags as good and any covers of Queens catalogue as awful.

              Radio 1's live room CD is quite good on the covers front. An absolute brilliant p*sstake by the Artic Monkeys of Girls Aloud's Love machine
              The eyes have it!
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              • #8
                Re: Better or worse Cover songs?

                Best: Billy Currington's cover of Lucille

                Worst: anything Brittany Spears covered
                "Flounder don't be such a guppy"-Ariel

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                • #9
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                  I always loved Ride Like The Wind by Saxon, but the worst cover song has got to be Sweet Child O' Mine by Sheryl Crow.

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                  • #10
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                    Worst cover song for me has to be 'Stop me if you think you've heard this one before' - Mark Ronson's decimation of a classic Smiths song. Absolutely appaling, and that Daniel Merriweather who sang the lyrics can't sing for treacle; he's proved that with his recent solo career. He also pulls some horrible faces when trying to sing - looks like he is in agony - it's likely the sound of his own voice is making him grimmace.
                    Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.

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                    • #11
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                      Telegram Sam -Bauhaus

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                      • #12
                        Re: Better or worse Cover songs?

                        i like any UB40 cover and

                        pet shop boys always on my mind,
                        fine young cannibals with Suspicious Minds and ever fallen in love
                        alien ant farm smooth criminal
                        freddie mercury great pretender
                        live and let die guns n roses

                        Bad ones would include

                        madonna american pie
                        mariah carey against all odds
                        sheryl crow sweet child o' mine
                        britney spears my prerogative
                        hilary duff my generation??? WTF????

                        britney spears - i love rock and roll - that is just sooo bad i cant believe the record company thought it was ever a good idea????
                        I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Better or worse Cover songs?

                          Best: The Beatles Dear Prudence as covered by Siouxsie & the Banshees

                          Worst: Soft Cells Say Hello Wave Goodbye as covered by David Gray
                          I go back to the original Jethro Tull - Yes! The seed drill inventor!

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                          • #14
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                            Best

                            The Sundays cover of Wild horses originally by the Rolling Stones

                            worst

                            Valerie by Ronson and Winehouse originally by the Zutons
                            "GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER"

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                            • #15
                              Re: Better or worse Cover songs?

                              Originally posted by branny View Post
                              Best

                              worst

                              Valerie by Ronson and Winehouse originally by the Zutons
                              Agreed! The Zutons version is far superior
                              I go back to the original Jethro Tull - Yes! The seed drill inventor!

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