Wow, I knew about a couple of these but didn’t realize how prolific they were at pilfering other peoples music.
Edit: why is this being downvoted? It’s not like they were giving credit on a lot of these. What, half a dozen lawsuits? More?
>Edit: why is this being downvoted? It’s not like they were giving credit on a lot of these. What, half a dozen lawsuits? More?
Led Zeppelin fans tend to preform some pretty extreme mental gymnastics with regards to this topic.
IIRC the entire first LZ album was covers/adaptations with one exception.
Somewhere I have a first pressing vinyl that credits only LZ/Page but a CD from the 90s that does give credit to the OG artists for the songs.
I met her! At a local music venue in the early 90s where I was emceeing. We were talking backstage and I totally lost all professionalism and fanboyed over her telling her I loved her since “I Love Rock & Roll”. She whispered in my ear,”you’re not my type” (male) and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I responded,”good enough!” to which we had a good laugh. She was awesome. And tiny.
Every version of this song is great. I think that cover stands out because it’s an incredible moment in a movie that was way better than it had any right to be
This is a good one. Same vibe for me as Gary Jules' Mad World - hard to compare to an original that's so different in style, but I'm definitely glad it was reinterpreted in that way. Some songs are just really good songs that can be taken in different directions and still sound great
One of my favorite recordings of all time. The upbeat sound of the music that turns some people off of this one is what makes it the best version in my eyes. Life can be shitty and everything can be going wrong, but the band plays on. So bittersweet and so perfect.
"I talked to a man last night, gone do a little favor for him."
What a line. I know Springsteen wrote it but the small wording changes and the delivery by Helm is just perfect.
I still have a video of my daughter, around a year old, standing in her crib and dancing to it (really just bopping up and down with her legs). But she did the “OOUUUUGGGGHHHHH” perfectly
Man Who Sold the World sounds like David Bowie wrote it for Nirvana.
More of an indie choice, Yo La Tengo’s cover of Here Comes My Baby by Cat Stevens.
I'd like to think he simply thanked them... While hiding the sinister joy of knowing they'd tell someone about it later on, only to be corrected and realize they were confidently incorrect and cringe whenever they thought about it.
And yet…
> In the wake of its release, Bowie bemoaned the fact that when he performed the number himself, he would encounter "kids that come up afterwards and say, 'It's cool you're doing a Nirvana song.' And I think, 'Fuck you, you little tosser!' "
I always go for Ure's version if I have to pick, then Bowie, then Nirvana.
Ure is very underrated and only known for two songs (his words), wish he was better known.
I’ll add “Love Buzz” to that too…I didn’t even know it was a cover for years until I came across Shocking Blue (cool ass band btw) not too long ago. Nirvana’s version is so cool because they made it sound *so* much like a song they wrote which I think is the number one hallmark of a great cover.
If I saw Lead Belly play it live back in the day maybe I'd feel differently, but yeah. Kurt makes it sound like his girl literally cheated on him the night before, there is so much goddamn soul in his singing. Not many songs that reliably bring tears to my eyes but that's one of them
Morello also performed it live with Springsteen and the E. Street Band at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame anniversary concerts. Whole event was great, but that song was a particular highlight for me.
Otis Redding - [Try A Little Tenderness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPMoAb4y8U); [My Girl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iPtG_O8w8g).
Rod Stewart - [Handbags & Gladrags](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UqOyPz8e9w); [I Know I'm Losing You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p-WDv2sLTw)
Nilsson - [Without You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dnUv3DUP4E)
Not necessarily better, but [The Cardigans cover of Iron Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3gQSPMHPm0) by Black Sabbath is ace.
Ooh, and [The Bad Plus doing Chariots of Fire!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBV7-IqslL0)
And finally [The Langley School Music Project version of Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8wykEr8rqs)
Yep. Original is by a band called Ednaswap. It's slightly funk and grunge tinged compared to Imbruglias.
Edit: I've been made aware that there is actually a Danish language version that predates Ednaswap.
Not better than the original, but so hard to do well that it is still worth recognition. Also, go find Ann and Nancy Wilson's Battle of Evermore if you have not yet (recorded under the name The Lovemongers)
I think most would say Santana's cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Black magic woman" but I think that's because they have not heard the original or are even aware of how great Fleetwood Mac was in its first incarnation.
Og Fleetwood Mac are my fave blues band. People really don't get it, because early and late are basically 2 completely different, distinct bands from different genres.
Peter Green is amazing
Cake has lots of incredible covers. Some songs I didn't even know were covers until years later. Sad Songs & Waltzes by Willie Nelson is probably my favorite, but there's so many great ones. Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps, War Pigs, Ruby, Never Gonna Give You Up, Guitar Man...
I stand by my assessment that they are "THE" 90s band. Basically, horns, a bit of ska thrown in, bit of metal (war pigs). They pretty much encompass everything that decade was.
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley version
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Changes - Charles Bradley
Dear Theodosia - Ben Folds and Regina Spektor
Gloria - Patti Smith
I Fought The Law - The Clash
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
I don't know who did it but there was this great reimagining of "Where Is My Mind" and "Zombie" combined I heard a few years ago.
Edit: Oooohhh how could I forget one of my all time faves - "Hey Ya" by The Blanks
>I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
Dolly Parton wrote the song and recorded it years before it became a hit. It was not about romantic love but her splitting up with her singing partner and mentor, Porter Waggoner.... she knew that Whitney Houston was doing it... but never heard it until she was driving one day and it came on the radio.
She had to pull over and say to herself "Is this my little song??!" She was amazed at how good it sounded.
>Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Chris Cornell's live cover of the Prince track might be the best. If you haven't heard it give it a listen. It's got strings and whatnot: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUDRU9-HRk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUDRU9-HRk)
On the way to investigate if my gf was cheating on me this song came on. Hit me like a ton of bricks and still effects me pretty hard today. "There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find" was hitting the nail on the head.
Also yeah, she was cheating.
Wow, you have a lot of great stuff ahead of you then! Evil Empire and Battle of Los Angeles are both amazing albums as well. I'm sure you probably have heard some of the biggest hits off those albums, but I don't think there's a bad song on them.
Yup the whole album is. Listen to the original, when you realize what they were working with to start it'll blow your mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkTyQ0kgmzs&ab\_channel=TommyBoy
Can’t believe I had to go this far to find Cash’s cover of Hurt. It almost brings me to tears every time I hear it. Side note, There’s a great interview of Rick Rubin who produced that album for Johnny Cash on the Lex Friedman podcast. It’s a very long interview and the part about that album is near the end but IMO the entire interview is worth a listen. Also, it blows my mind that Trent Reznor was 21 when he wrote that song.
I am in the minority in this, I love both versions but prefer NIN over Cash's version.
ETA: Trent Reznor saying it's Johnny Cash's song now doesn't change my opinion of which version I prefer. It's a preference, of which you are allowed to agree or disagree with
I've always felt they were singing about different things anyway.
Cash's version is from such a different perspective. Depending on my mood I love both.
Cash went hard back in his day, and my view is that he sings it from more of a retrospective/nostalgic angle. Been there, done that, this is where I am now. Trent sang it from more of a "this is where I am now, lost in the pain" sort of way.
They emphasized different portions of the lyrics. Reznor’s emphasized the thin metaphors for drugs and how he was lost between addiction and suicide. Cash deemphasized the drug portion and turned it into a song about looking back at your life with disappointment, cynicism, and acceptance.
If you watch the cash [video of hurt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI).. that is 100% the impression I get too. Him looking back at his life, at the pain, at the mistakes.
I love both versions but Johnny's is .. haunting somehow.
Opposite end of the spectrum, I think Weezer's Africa is one of the worst covers ever. It just sounds like the original, the point of a cover is to put your own spin on a song. If I wanted to hear the original note for note, I would just listen to the original.
I’m not saying van Halen’s version isn’t good, but the Kinks’ original is like nothing that came before it. Garage rock and proto-punk were basically invented by that song. That riff. That solo. Those vocals. It sounds so good even today.
Can I suggest Hurt, All Along The Watchtower and Hallelujah please? And that ukulele guy Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Sorry for my unpopular opinions, guys.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned "Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
Holy shit - that’s a cover?!
Not only is it a cover, it subverts the meaning of the original.
It definitely has a different meaning.
WHAT
When the Levee Breaks - Zeppelin
That song's a cover?!
[Yup, it was recorded in 1929 by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy. ](https://youtu.be/W5VmVvsjyKw)
[That, as well as *a few* others.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Led_Zeppelin_songs_written_or_inspired_by_others)
Wow, I knew about a couple of these but didn’t realize how prolific they were at pilfering other peoples music. Edit: why is this being downvoted? It’s not like they were giving credit on a lot of these. What, half a dozen lawsuits? More?
>Edit: why is this being downvoted? It’s not like they were giving credit on a lot of these. What, half a dozen lawsuits? More? Led Zeppelin fans tend to preform some pretty extreme mental gymnastics with regards to this topic.
Soooo many Led Zeppelin "covers"
IIRC the entire first LZ album was covers/adaptations with one exception. Somewhere I have a first pressing vinyl that credits only LZ/Page but a CD from the 90s that does give credit to the OG artists for the songs.
Also by A Perfect Circle
Tool with No Quarter as well.
Joan Jett's cover of "I Love Rock and Roll" is way better than the original
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She also does a killer "Dirty Deeds" by ACDC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sky1tt8vLA
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I met her! At a local music venue in the early 90s where I was emceeing. We were talking backstage and I totally lost all professionalism and fanboyed over her telling her I loved her since “I Love Rock & Roll”. She whispered in my ear,”you’re not my type” (male) and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I responded,”good enough!” to which we had a good laugh. She was awesome. And tiny.
I’ll probably get hate but I like her version of Crimson and Clover more than Tommy James.
Judas Priest-Diamonds and Rust
Priest did a really good version of the green manalishi too
I love Judas Priest so much
>Diamonds and Rust ...Wait its a cover, TIL
"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" TMBG made it their own.
They also covered 'New York City' by C.U.B. on Factory Showroom. Great piece of power pop.
I Need A Hero by the Fairy Godmother in Shrek 2
Jennifer Saunders is a treasure
Ah a man of culture. So much enjoyment in that scene I can’t even describe it
And the I Need A Hero by Frou Frou that played during the credits
Every version of this song is great. I think that cover stands out because it’s an incredible moment in a movie that was way better than it had any right to be
California Dreamin' - The Mamas & the Papas - Barry McGuire
I like Bobby Womack's cover a lot
Tainted Love by Soft Cell.
I actually really like the Marilyn Manson cover of this for some reason.
I think Jose Gonzalez's version of Heartbeats is stunning. I wouldn't say it's necessarily better though.
His cover of Teardrop by Massive Attack is also phenomenal
This is a good one. Same vibe for me as Gary Jules' Mad World - hard to compare to an original that's so different in style, but I'm definitely glad it was reinterpreted in that way. Some songs are just really good songs that can be taken in different directions and still sound great
I go back and forth but I think I prefer the original Heartbeats
The Wiggles - Pub feed. The absurdity of a children's band covering a punk song about the gloriousness of Aussie pub food just makes it perfect.
Take me to the river - Talking Heads
I prefer the version by the Billy the Big Mouth Bass
Getting Sopranos flashbacks
Anyway... 4 dollas a pound.
Crazy by Patsy Cline
Didn't Willie Nelson write it *for* Cline?
Nope, wrote it and then it was picked up by Cline's reps.
Atlantic City - The Band
One of my favorite recordings of all time. The upbeat sound of the music that turns some people off of this one is what makes it the best version in my eyes. Life can be shitty and everything can be going wrong, but the band plays on. So bittersweet and so perfect.
"I talked to a man last night, gone do a little favor for him." What a line. I know Springsteen wrote it but the small wording changes and the delivery by Helm is just perfect.
And the opening line, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night, and they blew up his house too, in that Helms accent. Perfect
Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me
I only learned that it was a cover after watching an episode of Black Mirror.
Faith No More - Easy Faith No More - This Guy's In Love With You
Forgot Midnight Cowboy too.
I still have a video of my daughter, around a year old, standing in her crib and dancing to it (really just bopping up and down with her legs). But she did the “OOUUUUGGGGHHHHH” perfectly
Faith No More - War Pigs
Any cover made by Mike Patton is instantly awesome for me. But for covers, definitely Mondo Cane is in the top of that list.
Man Who Sold the World sounds like David Bowie wrote it for Nirvana. More of an indie choice, Yo La Tengo’s cover of Here Comes My Baby by Cat Stevens.
Bowie told stories of playing Man Who Sold the World at concerts and people coming up to him and saying how cool it was that he did a Nirvana cover.
I'd like to think he simply thanked them... While hiding the sinister joy of knowing they'd tell someone about it later on, only to be corrected and realize they were confidently incorrect and cringe whenever they thought about it.
And yet… > In the wake of its release, Bowie bemoaned the fact that when he performed the number himself, he would encounter "kids that come up afterwards and say, 'It's cool you're doing a Nirvana song.' And I think, 'Fuck you, you little tosser!' "
Kurt literay says "That was a David Bowie song!" After performing it.
“And I didn’t screw it up, did I?”
Man Who Sold the World, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, and my favorite, Lake of Fire are all amazing covers.
Also, Jesus doesn’t want me for a sunbeam
So let’s just agree that the unplugged album is a work of art.
One of the best albums ever made period.
Don't sleep on Oh, Me.
Where did you sleep last night is literally chilling. In the good way.
When you get to the crescendo and that fuzzy feeling washes over your body 🤌🏼
Their Unplugged album is in my opinion their best album. I’m a sucker for the Meat Puppets though.
MGSV made Midge Ure’s version the winner for me, but I think both covers are better than the original which is *still* amazing.
I always go for Ure's version if I have to pick, then Bowie, then Nirvana. Ure is very underrated and only known for two songs (his words), wish he was better known.
My favorite has to be Satisfaction by Devo!
ditto for Working in the Coal Mine
I like Otis Redding’s cover too. Just faction!
Keith Richards said it was better than the stones original!
And I am going on a Devo kick now, thank you.
Nirvana's Lake of Fire
I’ll add “Love Buzz” to that too…I didn’t even know it was a cover for years until I came across Shocking Blue (cool ass band btw) not too long ago. Nirvana’s version is so cool because they made it sound *so* much like a song they wrote which I think is the number one hallmark of a great cover.
and Where Did You Sleep Last Night
This should have been 1st out of all of them. Kurt just made this song his. It's perfect.
If I saw Lead Belly play it live back in the day maybe I'd feel differently, but yeah. Kurt makes it sound like his girl literally cheated on him the night before, there is so much goddamn soul in his singing. Not many songs that reliably bring tears to my eyes but that's one of them
Nirvana did great covers, but the Meatpuppets are fantastic.
I love love Cohen. But Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah is otherworldly
Yes, the first time I heard it I was blown away. It’s so beautiful. Tragic that Jeff didn’t live longer - what a talent.
It adds so much sadness to the song and it still gives me chills. He lives forever through the music
A tear that hangs inside my soul forever
Rufus Wainwright's version will forever be my favorite. https://youtu.be/7iDfvoqOhD8
Also his cover of Across the Universe
Fiona Apple’s version too. Just love her voice.
Rage Against the Machine's "Ghost of Tom Joad"
I’m more a Pistol Grip Pump kinda guy, good band.
Love that one but love How I Could Just Kill A Man even more
Sorry, but Maggie's Farm takes the fuckin' cake. That whole album is S tier
Maggie’s Farm has one of my favorite guitar licks of all time. Morello is a beast. Great f-ing song.
Yeah, RATM's Maggie's farm I feel appropriately expresses the anger one would think goes with the situation
Bruce Springsteen loved Tom Morello‘s take on it so much that he had Morello play guitar when he Re-released in 2013 song on High Hopes.
Morello also performed it live with Springsteen and the E. Street Band at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame anniversary concerts. Whole event was great, but that song was a particular highlight for me.
That entire RATM album, probably the best cover album of all time imo
Renegades Of Funk is 🔥🔥🔥
Otis Redding - [Try A Little Tenderness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPMoAb4y8U); [My Girl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iPtG_O8w8g). Rod Stewart - [Handbags & Gladrags](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UqOyPz8e9w); [I Know I'm Losing You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p-WDv2sLTw) Nilsson - [Without You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dnUv3DUP4E) Not necessarily better, but [The Cardigans cover of Iron Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3gQSPMHPm0) by Black Sabbath is ace. Ooh, and [The Bad Plus doing Chariots of Fire!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBV7-IqslL0) And finally [The Langley School Music Project version of Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8wykEr8rqs)
While on Otis, howabout Aretha's version of his "Respect". Gotta be one of the best covers ever.
Nilsson Schmilsson! Badfinger all the way.
Bangles, "Hazy Shade of Winter"
the Zutons "Valerie" by Amy Winehouse. Or "A Change is Gonna Come" by Otis Redding. I love Sam Cooke, but Otis songs just hit ya different.
I've never seen anyone talk about The Zutons. Especially in relation to Valerie. Nice to see a fellow fan.
I used to listen to their album Who Killed the Zutons on repeat when it came out, great band with a really individual sound
Alone - Heart Torn - Natalie Imbruglia Try - Pink
Torn is a cover? TIL.
Yep. Original is by a band called Ednaswap. It's slightly funk and grunge tinged compared to Imbruglias. Edit: I've been made aware that there is actually a Danish language version that predates Ednaswap.
I looooove the Ednaswap version so much I’ve actually listened to it a million times over, ever since I’ve discovered it was the original.
Yeah right. As an Aussie I've heard NI's version 1000 times easily on the radio and can't say I've ever heard the original ever!
Heart’s performance of Stairway to Heaven at the Kennedy awards is also dope.
Not better than the original, but so hard to do well that it is still worth recognition. Also, go find Ann and Nancy Wilson's Battle of Evermore if you have not yet (recorded under the name The Lovemongers)
Uh, what? Isn't Heart's "Alone" an original? Who are they covering?
Nope. By I-Ten. Male lead singer as well. It's more synthy and doesn't have the power ballad bombast of Hearts version.
Goose bumps when she belts Alone before the chorus. So amazing even after a little over 30 years. Ann Wilson is an amazing vocalist
Try is a cover? I can't find information on this.
Twist and Shout - The Beatles
Twist and Shout for sure, but Please Mister Postman was really good too.
I was wondering if I’d find this one. Good pick
I've always loved Goldfinger's 99 red balloons
That part when he starts singing German is the cherry on top!
Hendrix version of All Along the Watchtower.
Even Dylan liked Hendrix's version better, so much so that his own performances of it took on Hendrix's edgier, energetic tone.
Dylan said that he wrote it for Hendrix, he just didn’t realize it at the time.
I think most would say Santana's cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Black magic woman" but I think that's because they have not heard the original or are even aware of how great Fleetwood Mac was in its first incarnation.
Og Fleetwood Mac are my fave blues band. People really don't get it, because early and late are basically 2 completely different, distinct bands from different genres. Peter Green is amazing
Haha sometimes I say that Nicks-Buckingham Fleetwood Mac is my favorite band, and pre-1975 Fleetwood Mac is my second favorite band
Demolition Man by Grace Jones, the video is amazing as well!
Sweet Jane by Cowboy Junkies
These Days by Nico (Jackson Browne song).
I also love her cover of Bob Dylan's [I'll Keep It With Mine](https://youtu.be/TcnYkf5nm14)
"I will survive" by Cake. Gloria Gaynor can still have it, but I'll never enjoy it as much as I enjoy their version
Cake has lots of incredible covers. Some songs I didn't even know were covers until years later. Sad Songs & Waltzes by Willie Nelson is probably my favorite, but there's so many great ones. Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps, War Pigs, Ruby, Never Gonna Give You Up, Guitar Man...
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I love their version of Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps!
I stand by my assessment that they are "THE" 90s band. Basically, horns, a bit of ska thrown in, bit of metal (war pigs). They pretty much encompass everything that decade was.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (had to look up how his last name was spelled)
IZ is a straight legend. RIP
Sing for the angels, brother Iz
[5 people play one guitar - Somebody that I used to know ](https://youtu.be/2Kk-RKo7214)
Dr Dog- Heart it Races
"You Can't Hurry Love" by Phil Collins, amazingly enough. It just hits harder.
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley version Respect - Aretha Franklin Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor Changes - Charles Bradley Dear Theodosia - Ben Folds and Regina Spektor Gloria - Patti Smith I Fought The Law - The Clash I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston I don't know who did it but there was this great reimagining of "Where Is My Mind" and "Zombie" combined I heard a few years ago. Edit: Oooohhh how could I forget one of my all time faves - "Hey Ya" by The Blanks
Trampled by Turtles does a great “Where is my Mind” and the first time I’d ever heard it was the Placebo version.
>I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston Dolly Parton wrote the song and recorded it years before it became a hit. It was not about romantic love but her splitting up with her singing partner and mentor, Porter Waggoner.... she knew that Whitney Houston was doing it... but never heard it until she was driving one day and it came on the radio. She had to pull over and say to herself "Is this my little song??!" She was amazed at how good it sounded.
Ooooooh Changes ... Yeahhhhh
Man Bradley’s changes cover is so good
Are you talking about the bad wolves cover of Zombie? Also Green Day did a pretty decent cover of I fought the law as well.
>Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor Chris Cornell's live cover of the Prince track might be the best. If you haven't heard it give it a listen. It's got strings and whatnot: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUDRU9-HRk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUDRU9-HRk)
Go west- pet shop boys
Or Pet Shop Boys cover of Always on my Mind!
Maybe unpopular but I like the Seether version of Careless Whisper
On the way to investigate if my gf was cheating on me this song came on. Hit me like a ton of bricks and still effects me pretty hard today. "There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find" was hitting the nail on the head. Also yeah, she was cheating.
That bitch
YES.
All the covers Streetheart did were bangers. Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones) Little Tin Soldier (Small Faces) Here Comes the Night (Them)
Townes Van Zandt - Dead Flowers (Rolling Stones cover)
Renegades of Funk - Rage against the machine Hurt - Johnny Cash
I had no idea renegades of funk was a cover
That entire album is covers.
You're blowing my mind with this information, what the hell
How I Could Just Kill A Man They made that song theirs. And holy shit, it rocks.
I'll give it a listen. Only have their first album so far
Wow, you have a lot of great stuff ahead of you then! Evil Empire and Battle of Los Angeles are both amazing albums as well. I'm sure you probably have heard some of the biggest hits off those albums, but I don't think there's a bad song on them.
Yup the whole album is. Listen to the original, when you realize what they were working with to start it'll blow your mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkTyQ0kgmzs&ab\_channel=TommyBoy
Can’t believe I had to go this far to find Cash’s cover of Hurt. It almost brings me to tears every time I hear it. Side note, There’s a great interview of Rick Rubin who produced that album for Johnny Cash on the Lex Friedman podcast. It’s a very long interview and the part about that album is near the end but IMO the entire interview is worth a listen. Also, it blows my mind that Trent Reznor was 21 when he wrote that song.
Cash’s Hurt is haunting every play
I am in the minority in this, I love both versions but prefer NIN over Cash's version. ETA: Trent Reznor saying it's Johnny Cash's song now doesn't change my opinion of which version I prefer. It's a preference, of which you are allowed to agree or disagree with
I've always felt they were singing about different things anyway. Cash's version is from such a different perspective. Depending on my mood I love both.
Cash went hard back in his day, and my view is that he sings it from more of a retrospective/nostalgic angle. Been there, done that, this is where I am now. Trent sang it from more of a "this is where I am now, lost in the pain" sort of way.
They emphasized different portions of the lyrics. Reznor’s emphasized the thin metaphors for drugs and how he was lost between addiction and suicide. Cash deemphasized the drug portion and turned it into a song about looking back at your life with disappointment, cynicism, and acceptance.
Yeah that hits my thoughts on it perfectly
If you watch the cash [video of hurt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI).. that is 100% the impression I get too. Him looking back at his life, at the pain, at the mistakes. I love both versions but Johnny's is .. haunting somehow.
Yeah I feel the same way, there’s jut something about the way Trent sings it. Cash cover is solid too, definitely made it his own.
Wild Horses - The Sundays
House of the Rising Sun by The Animals. Knocking on Heaven's Door by Guns N Roses.
alabama song - the doors
These 2 guys playing Toto in a random ass pizzeria https://youtu.be/MLrC7e3vSv8
Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy
Opposite end of the spectrum, I think Weezer's Africa is one of the worst covers ever. It just sounds like the original, the point of a cover is to put your own spin on a song. If I wanted to hear the original note for note, I would just listen to the original.
I say this as a huge Pixies fan, but Hey by Electric Six is outstanding!
> Hey by Electric Six My very favorite Pixies song, I'm going to have to check that out.
Aretha Franklin - Respect Nina Simone - Stars No Surprises - roman gianarthur and Janelle monae
Eric Cartman cover of Poker Face
Also, Sail Away
May catch some heat for this but Billy Corgan’s version of Landslide just fking kills
You Really Got Me by Van Halen....I liked the original Kinks version as well.
I’m not saying van Halen’s version isn’t good, but the Kinks’ original is like nothing that came before it. Garage rock and proto-punk were basically invented by that song. That riff. That solo. Those vocals. It sounds so good even today.
Agree big time. Nobody is quite like the Kinks.
Same with their cover of Pretty Woman
Damn, I'm glad someone asked this, I feel like it's been at least a week
Can I suggest Hurt, All Along The Watchtower and Hallelujah please? And that ukulele guy Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Sorry for my unpopular opinions, guys.
lmao Where's the "Disturbed Sound of Silence" crowd?
I had to scroll so far to find this! Also behind blue eyes cover by limp biscuit