backwoodsman
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Have said before elsewhere - but try the version sung by Brittany Murphy (for the film Happy Feet)
Covers that are better than the original
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Have said before elsewhere - but try the version sung by Brittany Murphy (for the film Happy Feet)
Voyager EMH
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You have started a very interesting and entertaining thread. You have my thanks for that.
But you had a flaw in your choice of a song that has no "original" for other versions to be compared with. These different versions can only be compared with each other.
The Animals' version of House Of The Rising Sun has had a mention. I love that version too. But again, it is difficult to identify an "original".
There are many such old traditional songs that have this difficulty that have been done by many people such as, She Moved Through The Fair, La Bamba, Scarborough Fair, etc.
I had no intention of being condescending, but I accept that it could be read that way.
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Wabinez
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The futureheads version of Hounds of Love is much better than the original..
bobmac
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Wow, what a variety in 'musical' tastes.
I guess it's just as well we are all different.
This isn't too shabby...
RIP Eva
I guess it's just as well we are all different.
This isn't too shabby...
RIP Eva
Newtonuti
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Metallica's Whiskey in a Jar is absolutely amazing, smashes either the old folk version or Thin Lizzy's. Hetfields voice just fits it.Following on from BiMs post about better known covere, which covers are just better than the original? Going to be a tough one.
As a metalhead I will go with Metallicas version of Whisky in the Jar.
Could be a short thread though...
Dando
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i never get tired listening to her songs
Dando
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i am a big metallica fan and this is up there for me as their best song
This thread is all a matter of taste but I'd rather listen to the Judy Garland version every day of the week.
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Some excellent choices in this thread but some absolute howlers too ?
AmandaJR
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Anything Bruce has covered - not that he's recorded many but some of his live renditions are amazing
This is one of my favourites - helped by a rather buff Bruce Jus watched it from start to finish again...love it...
This is one of my favourites - helped by a rather buff Bruce
Jus watched it from start to finish again...love it...
Foxholer
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Every song Joe Cocker has covered!
bobmac
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Not her best version as she recorded it not long before she died.
The earlier version on the 'Songbird' album is much stronger
Someone did a ukele version that was absolutely brilliant. I tend to think if you are going to cover a song then you either have to blow it out of the water or do a very different version. Doing that song on the ukele was very clever indeed.
RichA
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Blue in Munich
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Anything Bruce has covered - not that he's recorded many but some of his live renditions are amazing
This is one of my favourites - helped by a rather buff Bruce
If we want a Bruce cover that's better than the original...
Or if you prefer the studio version;
Orikoru
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AmandaJR
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Good call. I'm also going with this one (because I wanted to be his Jersey Girl
) and I was there. It was the final track when I saw him on consecutive nights at Giants Stadium...I bawled!RichA
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Born To Be Wild - rock to soul...
Hard To Handle - opposite direction
Hard To Handle - opposite direction
2blue
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The amazing Christy Moore covering Rich Thompson's creation..... if you're not moved by this then I'd seriously worry for you.
ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unu79PP2Klo
ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unu79PP2Klo
2blue
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Written in 1985 by Peter Harnes from Grimsby & performed here by Christy in 2006..... & a song with still with so much relevance!!!
