Cover versions that you prefer to the original

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Ness Rowlah

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The Bob Ezrin produced version of Peter Gabriel's "Here comes the flood" is good, but overproduced and wouldn't have been out of place on an Alice Cooper record:



and ended up on Robert Fripp's "Exposure" album in a stripped down and much improved version (still sung by Gabriel):



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_(Robert_Fripp_album) - didn't know that there was a third album to go with the Gabriel/Fripp ones - Darryll Hall's "Sacred Songs" and that Darryll "recorded vocals for most of the tracks on Fripp's solo debut, Exposure however due to pressure from RCA and Hall's management this was cut back to just two songs on the final release". Live and learn
 
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Ness Rowlah

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The Door's "People are strange" -


get's transformed to nocturnal listening by Stina Nordenstam (who sadly seems to have stopped recording,
and only seems to turn up every four years or so to record vocals for David Sylvian's projects):

 
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Ness Rowlah

Norwegian Wood
I guess a "standard" is not strictly speaking (?) a cover song, but boy are there many versions of "Gloomy Sunday" aka the "Hungarian Suicide Song"- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloomy_Sunday

I'm prone to The Associates version, but this 1959 version in Finnish is suitably down (even looks like the girl is crying on the end):


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Then there's Grace Jones's goldmine of covers on "Warm Leatherette" and "Nightclubbing".
 
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catalog

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So weird how ariel does thd baby cover and then 2 months later Dean and inga are on it. Same person showed them both the song or what?
 
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fantasma

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This Billy Paul cover of Wings/Paul McCartney's "Let Em In" is leaps and bounds better that the original, "substituting a list of notable African-American figures such as Malcolm X and Louis Armstrong in lieu of the people named in the original."




Huge fan of David Carretta's super punchy euro electro/techno cover of Plastic Bernard's "Ca Plane Pour Moi"

 
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Any cover version of a Bob Dylan song is guaranteed to be better than his original rendition - good songwriter, but should never perform his own material





both far superior to Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released"
 
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Client Eastwood

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As good as this is - Man Machine - Animal



This remix by DJ Martin and DJ Homes takes it to another level. Deep and murky with a sub bass to shake walls (as it did)

Man Machine - Animal (Primordial Jungle)

 
jenks

jenks

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I heard this version lone before i heard the original - it was on Night Flight to Venus, the first album I ever bought. I still prefer it to any other version i have ever heard

 
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