Cover song better than original? Examples please.
Dec 18, 2014 at 9:49 PM Post #61 of 134
 
Nicely done by two of music's most unyielding renegades but come on "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" is perhaps the greatest popular single of all time and topping the Rolling Stones' original is next to impossible.


They make it sound less like a broken record which has always been the thing I don't like about the original.
 
Dec 18, 2014 at 10:01 PM Post #62 of 134
 
They make it sound less like a broken record which has always been the thing I don't like about the original.


Perhaps it's my age (since I'm old enough to remember when Satisfaction was first released) that makes me so attached to the original. Never sounded like a broken record to me. Satisfaction just sounds like the greatest rock and roll single of all time.
 
Dec 18, 2014 at 10:30 PM Post #63 of 134
For a completely different take on "Satisfaction" here is the great Otis Redding's immortal performance from the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
 

 
Truly outstanding and still not better than the Rolling Stones' original.
 
Dec 18, 2014 at 10:34 PM Post #64 of 134
 
Perhaps it's my age (since I'm old enough to remember when Satisfaction was first released) that makes me so attached to the original. Never sounded like a broken record to me. Satisfaction just sounds like the greatest rock and roll single of all time.

 
Great Rolling Stones rock and roll song indeed.
 

 
Jan 23, 2015 at 1:07 PM Post #65 of 134
  Here are 2 examples of a well known song where I prefer another version than the original.
 
I'm On Fire; Carmen Gomes from the ''Thousand Shades of Blue'' album, http://www.soundliaison.com/
This overwhelmingly well recorded album starts of with a mesmerizing version of the Springsteen classic, I really like the singers low key interpretation of the song, puts the lyrics into perspective.
 

The you tube version is not exactly the same as the download, download sounds better and the drum groove is a bit different, smoother, but it still gives a good impression.
 


This is the album version;

 
Mar 25, 2015 at 7:42 PM Post #67 of 134
This is crazy because I was just in a used record store and I heard a cover of Satisfaction. It wasn't this one but I liked it and Im not a fan of the original. I didn't get around to asking who it was though and I was thinking of digging up this thread.
 
Mar 31, 2015 at 5:50 PM Post #70 of 134
there are a few that I preferred the cover than original, that includes Voodoo Chile (covered by Stevie Ray Vaughan), the 59th Street Bridge Song (covered by Harpers Bizarre) and of course all along the watchtower (covered by jimi hendrix), bring it on home covered by led zeppelin was pretty good too, but i dont know if id say its better than original 
 
May 23, 2015 at 12:50 AM Post #73 of 134
I grew up with 80s music and always kind of liked The Ghost In You by The Psychedelic Furs:

[VIDEO]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMmA8PsTvPA[/VIDEO]




But this recent minimal arrangement by Robin Hitchcock is very compelling.

[VIDEO]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpIZNZjr7w4[/VIDEO]

Better? Hmm.... I'm not sure, but I sure like them both.

Brian.
 
May 23, 2015 at 4:31 PM Post #74 of 134
I grew up with 80s music and always kind of liked The Ghost In You by The Psychedelic Furs:

[VIDEO]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMmA8PsTvPA[/VIDEO]




But this recent minimal arrangement by Robin Hitchcock is very compelling.

[VIDEO]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpIZNZjr7w4[/VIDEO]

Better? Hmm.... I'm not sure, but I sure like them both.

Brian.


Richard Butler made a How Soon Is Now? cover, too. Pretty popular.
 

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