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I enjoyed this topic on the other board.  My submission:

Whitney Houston's version of "I will always love you" was better than Dolly Parton.  Although Whitney Houston was bested by Sexual Chocolate with "Children are our future".

 

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  • Touche dude! I know this is not a cover, but everyone should watch this. This is a sound check in 1986 back when he was still using cocaine and drinking heavy. He looks lit in this video, bu

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They are both legends, but Hendrix killed it on his cover of Dylan's song.

 

I think I posted this on the other board, but I enjoy it more than the Cream version.

 

Nah, no flaming on that one. I still think the edge still goes to LZ, but even they, and everyone else, knew it was a pretty damn good version.

In the same spirit, I have always liked the Catherine Wheel cover of Wish You Were Here.

 

Never know which way people’s musical leanings go, but Brandi Carlile has done some solid covers. Her cover of Take Me Home, Country Roads is worth a listen.

16 hours ago, nivek3 said:

They are both legends, but Hendrix killed it on his cover of Dylan's song.

I see your Jimi Hendrix, and I raise you one SRV.

 

Miley Cyrus' cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit.

 

Seriously, I go back and forth on whose version of Blinded by the Light is better, Springsteen or Manfred Mann.  Two totally different songs.

On a hair band kick lately and I’ll take Great White’s version of Once Bitten Twice Shy over the original. Original sounds like a bad karaoke song.

And I’m sure was posted in the other thread, Power Station’s Bang A Gong was killer.

6 hours ago, tokamak said:

I see your Jimi Hendrix, and I raise you one SRV.

 

Touche dude!

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I know this is not a cover, but everyone should watch this. This is a sound check in 1986 back when he was still using cocaine and drinking heavy. He looks lit in this video, but his playing is so accurate & pure it's like your listening to his album. Probably no other artist I miss more than SRV.

 

6 minutes ago, nivek3 said:

Touche dude!

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I know this is not a cover, but everyone should watch this. This is a sound check in 1986 back when he was still using cocaine and drinking heavy. He looks lit in this video, but his playing is so accurate & pure it's like your listening to his album. Probably no other artist I miss more than SRV.

 

....like a boss. 

1 hour ago, drifter379 said:

Anything Robert Earle Keen has written and someone else sings.

Joe Ely's Road Goes on Forever performance off of Live at Antones.

Go ahead and add Gallo Del Cielo on there too. 

Don't really know if you can consider these better but they are fantastic for what they are.   

 

 

 

The whole Live at Monterrey set is filled with covers that are better than the original.  Couldn't find the Monterey version, but this one is pretty damned good.  Winterland version is fine as well. 

 

 

I'm reminded from my Texas Blues post...

Butter.

 

While I'd never say it's better than Black Sabbath's Into The Void, Soundgarden's cover using quotes from Chief Sealth is just as good. And lyrically it seems like an original song.  Plus there's the whole juxtaposition of the outward looking Sabbath version and inward looking SG version.

 

 

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Clapton--Cocaine

CSNY--Woodstock

Bowie--Under Pressure

Joan Jett's version of The Mary Tyler Moore theme song

For me the default standard in this discussion is "Respect" as sung by Aretha, but it's not like Otis Redding's original is all that well known these days.  It was actually a hit for him, though.

Eva Cassidy- Fields of Gold
Eva Cassidy- Time after Time
Eva Cassidy- Somewhere over the Rainbow.

I don’t know who Eva Cassidy is but Judy Garland’s Somewhere Over The Rainbow is iconic and sublime and has stood the test of time since 1939.

 

Excellent tribute I'm old enuf to have seen Bowie and Nirvana.  /csb

 

 

I believe Lulu actually charted higher

On 4/9/2018 at 9:21 AM, tokamak said:

I see your Jimi Hendrix, and I raise you one SRV.

 

While I think this conversation begins and ends with Hendrix's version of Watchtower, SRV's version of Voodoo Child is solid, but not as good as his version of Little Wing.

 

Beth Hart leaves it all on the stage for just every show she gives

 

 

 

Note that the guys "who" did the original seem to agree.

 

 

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Where Kevin Morgan will eventually end up...

vs.

 

 

I think I put these on the original thread:

Sepultura doing Motörhead’s Orgasmatron:

Sepultura doing U2’s Bullet the Blue Sky

 

Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide

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There are a slew of songs that are in the "I didn't know that was a cover".

 

 

 

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