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Heart doing Stairway at the Kennedy Center Honors for LZ is neat.

I know Disturbed covering Sound of Silence is a love it/hate it deal. I think it's a totally different song and better than the original. It's dark and moody and expresses the lyrics so much better.

I personally thing Clapton and a cast of a hundred doing While My Guitar Gently Weeps is the best rendition of that song ever. It's not fair to say cover when 3 of the original 5 musicians are doing it but I don't care. Prince may be going nuts in the RRHOF version but Slowhand makes so much more emotional. Plus he's playing the full lead and singing it. He literally makes his guitar weep with the blues sound.
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Tool - No Quarter
Tool - You Lied
White stripes - Jolene

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Sturgill Simpson - in bloom
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Jason Boland - Tulsa Time
Roger Creager - A Pirate Looks At Forty



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Placebo's cover of "Running Up That Hill" is vastly superior to the original Kate Bush version.
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In reply to DrEvazanPhD • 1:24p, 10/13/21
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Sturgill Simpson - in bloom
Goodness, that is awful.
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Willie Nelson - The Scientist
The Byrds - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Drive By Truckers - Rebels
Turnpike Troubadours - Long Hot Summer Day
Robert Earl Keen - Long Black Veil

Someone mentioned Bob Dylan as having a lot of songs done by others that turn out better, and I agree. I'll also throw out Black Flag as the punk version of that - I end up liking covers of their songs better than the original in just about every case.
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In reply to Mathguy64 • 11:14p, 10/13/21
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I personally thing Clapton and a cast of a hundred doing While My Guitar Gently Weeps is the best rendition of that song ever. It's not fair to say cover when 3 of the original 5 musicians are doing it but I don't care. Prince may be going nuts in the RRHOF version but Slowhand makes so much more emotional. Plus he's playing the full lead and singing it. He literally makes his guitar weep with the blues sound.


I don't know how I never saw it before but that RRHOF tribute to Harrison one with Tom Petty etc and the casual "end" Prince solo was a Masterclass in a guitar solo and showmanship, wife is probably gonna be pissed as I think I have to watch that performance 100 times now
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Metallica - Turn the Page


Absolutely not. You will not trounce on the Seger.

And this comes from a yuge Metallica fan.
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I'll chime in with some classic jazz, two that quickly come to mind - though there are probably 100's
1-John Coltrane, My Favorite Things; he takes the Sound of Music innocence and turns it into an absolutely creative piece. Several versions available
2-Brad Mehldau, Blackbird. Many Beatles songs are better as re-do's rather than the original (Joe Cocker mentioned earlier). In this one, Mehldau uses a light touch on the piano giving the song a new interpretation
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Metallica-Am I Evil (Originally Diamond Head)

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I'm going to bust out some 80's club covers that gave different (maybe not always better) versions:

Don't Leave Me This Way - Communards
Jolene - Strawberry Switchblade
I Beg Your Pardon - KonKan
Always on My Mind - Pet Shop Boys
Dear Prudence - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Route 66 - Depeche Mode
Lean on Me - Club Nouveau
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The Gourds - Gin and Juice
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In reply to NoahAg • 12:15p, 10/14/21
NoahAg said:
DrEvazanPhD said:


Sturgill Simpson - in bloom
Goodness, that is awful.

To add:

and
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In reply to KidDoc • 2:14p, 10/14/21
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I always liked Seal's version better:

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Seal has a great voice but I like the music with Greta better.
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Elvis - Bridge Over Troubled Water. Paul Simon said, "How the hell do I compete with that "
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The Carpenters covering a bank commercial song. Karen had the most beautiful voice, such a loss.

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The really amazing thing about Elvis, Simon and Garfunkel, Karen Carpenter and all the rest in those eras is there isn't any digital processing or auto tune happening. It's just voice, amplification and some manual upping or lowering of certain frequencies.
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In reply to Mathguy64 • 11:41p, 10/14/21
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Queue Rick Beato!

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Joan Jett "Crimson and Clover"
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Every song except for improv is a cover if you think about it
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Speaking of covers... always great when Postmodern Jukebox releases a new cover. Newest release from yesterday is a good one.

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Gin and juice- the gourds
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Shadows Fall - welcome to the machine
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Many on here were good ones. Dwight Yoakum does good with Elvis songs.

My addition:
Live and let die - Guns n roses
Desperado - Clint Black


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