I like Neil Diamond, but this is one cover that I think is better than the Neil Diamond original. The reggae beat just changes the whole song. Another Neil Diamond cover song that I like better than the original is the Monkee's version of I'm a Believer.
Music: Covers that are different but as good or better than the original
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I like Neil Diamond, but this is one cover that I think is better than the Neil Diamond original. The reggae beat just changes the whole song. Another Neil Diamond cover song that I like better than the original is the Monkee's version of I'm a Believer.
I didn't even know he wrote I'm a Believer.
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"Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads
"Psycho Chicken" by The Fools
"Psycho Chicken" by The Fools
Hard to say that anybody does Johnny Cash better than Johnny Cash but the Dead made "Big River" their own
My favorite cover:
Twist & Shout by the Beatles is pretty awesome.
Of the Metallica covers The Prince is probably my fave. Sounds like it could almost be an original from the Puppets/Justice era.
Sound of Silence by Disturbed is my current fave cover.
Cindy Lauper's 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' is better than the creepy original.
Of the ones butchering Elvis, I think I hate U2's the least:
Twist & Shout by the Beatles is pretty awesome.
Of the Metallica covers The Prince is probably my fave. Sounds like it could almost be an original from the Puppets/Justice era.
Sound of Silence by Disturbed is my current fave cover.
Cindy Lauper's 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' is better than the creepy original.
Of the ones butchering Elvis, I think I hate U2's the least:
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A lot of acts performed Hey Joe in the 60s and 70s, including Jimmy Hendrix of course, but none with the panache that Jon Lord lends to it with his epic intro:
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One of the coolest TV show musical themes of all time, composed in the 50s by Henry Mancini:
And brilliantly reprised by ELP in this, a live version from the Big O in Montreal:
And brilliantly reprised by ELP in this, a live version from the Big O in Montreal:
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In my opinion, these three examples are not different from the originals. They are all middle-of-the-road rock, and they aren't really different spins on that which they are covering.
The keyboards sound really dated in a bad way. I think the original is better.
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Chairman Maouth
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Some of you will undoubtedly find this blasphemous. I don't blame you. But I'm going there. Joan Baez's cover of Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms is that good.
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That may be one of the most completely different cover versions I've ever heard.
I like both versions, depending on my mood but kudos to whomever picked that song for Nazareth to play.
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tarheelhockey
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Quietly, this was an absolutely ingenious re-envisioning of how a song can "feel". The original is haunting and the cover brings Tarantino-level manic energy.
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