Electronic Music 411 - Covers that beat the originals - cover songs, cover bands, after ski

I think Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is one.

I also really like the Clash's cover of "Pressure Drop." One of my favorite songs of all time.

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03/25/08 + Jim

Johnny Cash's best cover imo is "Long Black Veil." A great traditional song. Also, I'm pretty sure he didn't write "Cocaine Blues," but he kills that song on the Live from Folsom Prison album.

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03/25/08 + AllThatFall

Oh boy, I sometimes listen to Samamidon's cover of Tears for Fear's "Head over heels" over and over.

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03/25/08 + celibacyclub

link i only really like the first one,...

i seem to remember much better folky covers of hiphop. where did they go..

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03/25/08 + votTypeDef

How can you hate on the r kelly he is the shiznat.

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03/25/08 + daswesen

mad world by gary jules (i like the original, but the cover is just so good in its emo goodness).

also: link

chaka khan covering the beatles: Video (the original is the shit too, but chaka khan, man, and the album version has herbie hancock all over the place i think).

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03/25/08 + celibacyclub

link

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03/25/08 + tantan

+1 mad world cover, moved me to tears in donnie darko

I do love the original though...

locust did a marvelous, high camp cover of "Master and Servant" a few years back that I thought was light years ahead of the original

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03/25/08 + Fredo

+2 mad world cover. Really love the original too though.

"Time is On My Side" - Irma Thomas. I'm aware that the Rolling Stones version is also a cover, but this version by Irma Thomas just kicks all ass.

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03/25/08 + skab

Bongwater's cover of "you don't love me yet" and Big Brother and the Holding Company's version of "summertime". go Janis!

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03/25/08 + nightowl

nina simone's version of "pirate jenny" from the 3-penny opera. it is dramatic and very chilling. the scariest
song i ever heard. much better than the original version which lacks the power that she gives it.
nina did lots of covers, all of them good. another fave is her cover of "just like tom thumb's blues" by dylan.

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03/25/08 + DrexonField

William Shatner covering rocketman: Video

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03/25/08 + DrexonField

i messed up the link, but search that rocketman on youtube......it's classic.

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03/25/08 + j_chot

link
solja boy

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03/25/08 + Fognozzle

The Butthole Surfers tear R.E.M.'s "Fire" a new asshole on their Double Live album

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