Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 19:27     Subject: Covers that improve on the original (music)
Cake - I Will Survive is awesome but so is the original
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 19:11     Subject: Covers that improve on the original (music)
+1 to Guns n Roses cover of Live and Let Die

Nirvana - Man Who Sold The World

Those are the two that always come into mind as covers being so much better than originals.

Who was the original singer to Because The Night? I had no idea that was a cover.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 19:06     Subject: Covers that improve on the original (music)
Anonymous wrote:Mary J Blige - One

+1!
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 19:00     Subject: Covers that improve on the original (music)
Mary J Blige - One
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 18:27     Subject: Covers that improve on the original (music)
Bruce Springsteen's "Trapped" (originally Jimmy Cliff)
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 18:27     Subject: Covers that improve on the original (music)
Two from Guns & Roses - Knocking on Heaven's Door (Dylan) but especially Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney's execrable post-Beatles band Wings. HUGE delta between the original and the cover there.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 18:26     Subject: Covers that improve on the original (music)
Club Nouveau, "Lean On Me."
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 18:20     Subject: Re:Covers that improve on the original (music)
Tori Amos -- Pictures of You.

Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 18:18     Subject: Covers that improve on the original (music)
I love Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 18:17     Subject: Re:Covers that improve on the original (music)
Anonymous wrote:Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares to U

Siouxise and the Banshees - Dear Prudence


As long as we're talking about Prince songs, the version of "Manic Monday" by the Bangles is another good one.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 18:15     Subject: Covers that improve on the original (music)
Dolly Parton - Stairway to Heaven

Bettye LaVette - Love Reign
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 16:03     Subject: Re:Covers that improve on the original (music)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 16:00     Subject: Covers that improve on the original (music)
I clicked on this thread to say Natalie Merchant's version of Because the Night. The version that is usually played on the radio, anyway- something about the way her voice breaks when she sings "take me now." She really sounds in the moment.
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 15:54     Subject: Re:Covers that improve on the original (music)
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares to U

Siouxise and the Banshees - Dear Prudence
Anonymous
Post 08/09/2017 15:43     Subject: Covers that improve on the original (music)
(Female edition)

Dar Williams and Ani DiFranco: "Comfortably Numb."



10,000 Maniacs: "Because the Night"



Rihanna: "Darling Nikki"



Pink: "What's Up?"



Heart: "Stairway to Heaven."