Subjective, I know but anyway:
Hurt - Johnny Cash - original - Nine Inch Nails
This Flight Tonight - Nazareth - original - Joni Mitchell
In My Life - Johnny Cash - original - The Beatles
The Price of Love - Bryan Ferry - original - The Everly Brothers
You fuckers?
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Covered songs better than the original.
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Re: Covered songs better than the original.
I think that some songs are almost impossible to fuck up when covering, unless that is an artists explicit intention.
Never heard, so far, a bad rendition of the classic "I'd Rather Go Blind" , Elton John's "Love Song", or the immortal "Love Hurts".
Anyhow, I'm off to search through the "What are you listening to now" thread and list a few band's songs just to prove I'm not musically one-dimensional.
Never heard, so far, a bad rendition of the classic "I'd Rather Go Blind" , Elton John's "Love Song", or the immortal "Love Hurts".
Anyhow, I'm off to search through the "What are you listening to now" thread and list a few band's songs just to prove I'm not musically one-dimensional.
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Quite enjoyed Killswitch Engage, doing a cover of Holy Diver by Dio.
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I used to drink in the Ruskin Arms,East Ham high street. The lead singer of the resident band was a Scot and they did 'Next ' and 'Framed'. If you closed your eyes, you'd swear Harvey was on the stage.
I used to drink in the Ruskin Arms,East Ham high street. The lead singer of the resident band was a Scot and they did 'Next ' and 'Framed'. If you closed your eyes, you'd swear Harvey was on the stage.
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Zebra.
I used to drink in the Ruskin Arms,East Ham high street. The lead singer of the resident band was a Scot and they did 'Next ' and 'Framed'. If you closed your eyes, you'd swear Harvey was on the stage.
I used to drink in the Ruskin Arms,East Ham high street. The lead singer of the resident band was a Scot and they did 'Next ' and 'Framed'. If you closed your eyes, you'd swear Harvey was on the stage.
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frank marker" wrote: ↑27 Sep 2025, 07:29 Good morning everyone. This one opens up an interesting tangent.
Scott Walker. Jacky.
Alex Harvey. Next
Bowie. Amsterdam.
The original versions all by Belgian singer / songwriter / actor Jacques Brel of course. Amsterdam was what led me to discovering Brel, who sang in French. Luckily I have enough of a smattering of the language to be able to cope with the lyrics of his songs. I now prefer the original Amsterdam, but not the original 'Au suivant' - Next.
So, any more examples like these? Isn't there an Elvis song in Italian (I'm no expert there). Anyone prefer the original forign language version of a song to the English translation version (often butchered to make it rhyme). Any examples where both are great (Amsterdam) or one is awful?
Next is superb. Alex Harvey could really do self hate and disgust.
Faith Healer is a classic too.
Faith Healer is a classic too.
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Those were the days, it was a hit for Mary Hopkins and it originated as a Russian folk/romance song.
Paul McCartney played a big part in the musical arrangement and it became a big hit in this country in 1968.
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Paul McCartney played a big part in the musical arrangement and it became a big hit in this country in 1968.
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I remember that film Frank, found it very disturbing at the time.