Songs that are better than the original?

[Dameon Angell]

"You Spin Me Round" by Dope

[Jerome Scuggs]

Gary Jules - Mad World

beat me to it, i like NOFX's cover of "iron man" better than the original version

[Reclusion]

"Country Roads" -Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Can't remember right off hand who the original artist was. John Denver, maybe?

[Pan]

I like 311's version of "Love Song" from the cure

[za gophar]

yeah it's pretty good, except i havent heard the original so i cant say if its better.

[Zyclon]

Dimmu Borgir - Burn In Hell


Orginal Version by: Twisted Sister

[Troll King]

I listen to lots of cover songs, but I hesitate when asked if any are better than the originals. The problem is that, with most covers, the original is either a very popular classic or so horribly bad that the cover is almost a way to make fun of them.

I like a lot of punk covers, like almost anything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. I especially like their versions of the "Phantom of the Opera" and "Don'T Cry For Me Argentina" from their showtunes album, and Bob Dylan's "Blowing In the Wind". MXPX has an excellent take on "Take On Me". Also worth a listen is Lagwagon's cover of the theme from Cheers, and Yellowcard's cover of Michelle Branch's "Everywhere". I also like Zebrahead's cover of the Spice Girls' "Wannabe".

I also like to listen to a lot of a cappella choir groups covering pop songs. The Brown Derbies and U. Penn's Off the Beat do a lot of really interesting covers. My favourite a cappella covers are: Mixed Company's cover of TLC's "Unpretty", the Brown Derbies' cover of "I'll Be There For You" (AKA the Friends theme), and Off the Beat's cover of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".

More mainstream cover songs I like are Chantal Kreviazuk's version of "Leaving On a Jet Plane" from the Armageddon soundtrack, and the Counting Crows' version of "Big Yellow Taxi" featuring Vanessa Carlton.

My absolute favourite cover song though is Travis' cover of Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time", mainly just to hear them trying not to crack up in the middle of playing it, but also because it usually takes a while before people realize what they are playing.

[Fallen Angel]

Not exactly covers, but songs by Wierd Al Yankovic mostly own the original ones

[geekbot]

There was a remake of Snoop's Gin and Juice- not the Gourd's bluegrass version. I could have sworn someone did an alternative/modern rock version but I can't find it. Anyone know what it is?

[Golden Sun 1]

i duno about anyone cover being being better but, Blazin' squad totaly wrecked Bone Thugs and harmonies crossroads. they shud be shot.

[Noah]

About any Metallica song transformed into good, real Death Metal. That's always a delight to hear

[ZeUs!!]

Just about everything by Me First

[Ewan]

Oh yea, I really like Metallica's version of Whiskey in the Jar.

[Fit of Rage]

Not exactly covers, but songs by Wierd Al Yankovic mostly own the original ones

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