Speaking of ‘walk on by’. My favourite version and totally kick ass
what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original?
The first ones to come to mind are Whitney’s version of I Will Always Love You and Allen Stone’s Georgia On My Mind but I would love to hear other contributions as well! I feel like there are a lot of songs where a covered version gets more popular than the original and people end up not realizing that it is a cover (ex. i had a friend that genuinely believed the Jonas Brothers wrote Year 3000). so, what‘a a song that was written by one artist but (figuratively) owned by another?
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@xcool No huge argument from me, but both are wonderful. Here is another I just thought of--one of my all-time fav songs: ORIGINAL: Charles Brown--Please Come Home for Christmas (1960) REMAKE: EAGLES (1978), and NOT the "re-masterd" version (you have to pay someone to listen to the original version these days)...here is a live version: ALSO, used in one of the sexiest videos EVER: Bon Jovi version. No nudity, just pure sexy by 2 genetic-lottery winners on this planet...
Oh, and it has a striking resemblance, but not all the tough guitar chords, of the Beatles' "Oh, Darlin' ", which is another of my all time favs... Cheers! |
Lucinda William’s cover of “Ode To Billie Jo” on Mercury Rev’s, “Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited” record. It’s raw and edgy. Richard Thompson’s “Season Of The Witch”. I love Donovan’s version: he sings it in a spooky way, a la The Doors’, “People Are Strange”. Richard Thompson just doesn’t have Donovan’s voice, but he shreds it in that very typical Thompsian way. |
@pesky_wabbit - Before I even looked to see what the link went to, I was thinking, 'my favorite version of 'Walk On By' is by the Stranglers!!' Big Stranglers fan, here... |
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