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ishiki on 21 December 2013
JustThatGamer said:

Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcXYz0gtJeM

 

Don't know who the original artist is because it's so old but Nirvana's version is the best I've heard!


Just for your information, the first to record it was Lead belly. In general most of Nirvana's covers in that performance were fantastic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsfcUZBMSSg



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Luck on 21 December 2013

Reluctantly, Tool's version of No Quarter from Led Zeppelin.

 



Mr Khan on 21 December 2013

Story begins and ends with Van Halen's "Really Got Me"



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Boutros on 21 December 2013

Impressive imo



think-man on 21 December 2013
curl-6 said:

I know a lot of people have the mentality that "nothing beats the original" but I respectfuly disagree.

If you do too, post a cover you think beats the original recording.

I'll start:

Run - Leona Lewis (Originally by Snow Patrol)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqpAgMxhx30


I find Run from SP far superior.



 

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think-man on 21 December 2013



Gotta hear this one. Sounds way better than Britanys version XD



 

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curl-6 on 21 December 2013
think-man said:
curl-6 said:

I know a lot of people have the mentality that "nothing beats the original" but I respectfuly disagree.

If you do too, post a cover you think beats the original recording.

I'll start:

Run - Leona Lewis (Originally by Snow Patrol)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqpAgMxhx30


I find Run from SP far superior.

SP's version is good, but Lewis's is just so much more emotive to me.



Augen on 21 December 2013

Metro, originally by Berlin, cover by System of a Down

Admittedly personal attachment of time aand place, but I love this cover.



mysticwolf on 22 December 2013

I like some Glee covers better than the originals.

Yes I just went there.



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mornelithe on 22 December 2013

The Bruisers cover of Billy Joel's Lunatic, or their cover of Fortune's Son.

Vital Remains cover of Judas Priest's 'You've got another thing coming' was also sensational, but, I wouldn't put it ahead of the original...just because hey...it's Judas Priest.

Gang Green's original 'Alcohol' was great (Screw you Brad Paisley), but Tesco Vee and the Meatmen did a pretty awesome cover of it.

Also, John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf's 1944 'Moonlight in Vermont' (first vocalized by Margaret Whiting), was covered many many times afterwards, and the list of better versions is pretty large, Chet Baker, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Holliday, and my absolute favorite of the bunch Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.