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Rolyatthegoon on 25 February 2016

https://youtu.be/auUPqxI1vqg

 

Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares to You

Originally by Prince



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bigtakilla on 25 February 2016

Confide: Such Great Heights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncK6IuY8OA

Originally by The Postal Service



Roberto10 on 25 February 2016

Small Town Boy - Paradise Lost (2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9XiD_2K7-Q

Original Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuz94ZIPfJk

though the original was a big commercial success back in it's day (it became quite popular as a gay anthem), I prefer the metal background and the deep vocals for the [depressing :P] lyrics of this song, than the dance/pop music of the original.


p.s I agree with the:
Limp Bizkit Behind Blue Eyes>>>>>> The Who



Volterra_90 on 25 February 2016
Hynad said:


Kid? That's still how you handle things on the internet? ¬_¬ 

But Trent never said he liked it better.

At first, he felt: "I'd known where I was when I wrote it. I know what I was thinking about. I know how I felt. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive". Then he watched the video and thought Cash's version made sense. That it was powerful, and a great piece of art. He felt honored that cash chose one of his song. But no mention of him saying he liked it better than his own. Just that Cash managed to make the song his own. 


And really, I was listening to NIN when you were barely a junior. So please, no need for that. It's my opinion that Cash's version is a snore fest. Yeah, yeah. It's powerful if you consider the moment in his life when he chose to cover it, and what the video is actually about. But that doesn't make it any less boring to my ears compared to the original. 

I like Cash's version, but it just got powerful when he died, and that's what makes his version great, along with the video which adds a lot to his version. But I agree that, talking about musicianship, I enjoy more the NIN original version. The ending is just too powerful, and that lacks in the Cash version. 



Chris Hu on 25 February 2016
Rolyatthegoon said:

https://youtu.be/auUPqxI1vqg

 

Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares to You

Originally by Prince

Price wrote the song but the first artist to actually record it was The Familiy in 1985.  Prince recorded it twice once as a duet with Rosie Gaines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caVOZtSaQAk

And once by himself but both versions where recorded and released after Sinead O'Connor's version was released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Compares_2_U



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SuperNova on 25 February 2016
JWeinCom said:
VGPolyglot said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:
Hurt by Johnny Cash immediately comes to mind.


agreed!


There are two types of people in this world.  Those who think Johnny Cash's version of Hurt is better than Nine Inch Nails' and those who deserve to be round up and shot.


Ok, a little extreme but the NIN version is way better.

 

On topic.

Nirvana- Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie Cover)

Iron and Wine- Such Great Heights (Postal Service Cover)

Sonic Youth- Superstar (Carpenters Cover)

Nirvana- Lake of Fire (Meat Puppets Cover)

OK, this was going to be my post. Especially Lake of fire and man who sold the world (Even though Bowies version is great too).

 

Except that I do like Johnny Cashes version of Hurt just about as much as NINs. They have diffrent merits.

One is that of an angry young man looking into his frightfully short looking future and the mistakes of his relatively young past, the other carries all the heavyness of a long life full of regrets that is going to end soon. It's like two sides of the same coin and they're both beautiful.

 

Also Lana del rey -  The other woman.



Diablos1979 on 28 February 2016

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Simlpy Red - If you don't know me by now (debatable)



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JWeinCom on 28 February 2016
SuperNova said:
JWeinCom said:
VGPolyglot said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:
Hurt by Johnny Cash immediately comes to mind.


agreed!


There are two types of people in this world.  Those who think Johnny Cash's version of Hurt is better than Nine Inch Nails' and those who deserve to be round up and shot.


Ok, a little extreme but the NIN version is way better.

 

On topic.

Nirvana- Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie Cover)

Iron and Wine- Such Great Heights (Postal Service Cover)

Sonic Youth- Superstar (Carpenters Cover)

Nirvana- Lake of Fire (Meat Puppets Cover)

OK, this was going to be my post. Especially Lake of fire and man who sold the world (Even though Bowies version is great too).

 

Except that I do like Johnny Cashes version of Hurt just about as much as NINs. They have diffrent merits.

One is that of an angry young man looking into his frightfully short looking future and the mistakes of his relatively young past, the other carries all the heavyness of a long life full of regrets that is going to end soon. It's like two sides of the same coin and they're both beautiful.

 

Also Lana del rey -  The other woman.

Don't get me wrong, I like Johnny Cash's version of Hurt, just not nearly as much as NIN.  It's more the music than the vocals.  I love the sound of the flat guitar, and the piano makes a really great contrast.  The verses are really minamalistic as opposed to the lively chorus which sort of feels like a struggle.  It also helps that it's the finale of a concept album instead of a random song.

I like Johnny Cash's version, but NIN is way better.  Of course the best version is Kermit the Frog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU



Chris Hu on 29 February 2016

Well one thing is certain Kermit's version of hurt has the best music video.



Chris Hu on 29 February 2016

Found another one.

The origial is pretty good also and was sung by the person that actually wrote the song Chris Braide who is one of the most talented writers when it comes to pop music.