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We all know that about 80% of cover versions are'nt a patch on the original,but does anyone have a favourite which they think knocks spots off the original.My personal favourite is Faith No Mores cover of Midnight Cowboy.Sacrilege,you may say;but each to their own.And thinking about it,there must be thousands out there.:)

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Yes I know a few but I'm not allowed to mention who they are by or I will have slinks and accymel run in here to rip into them then I get all defensive and cry :( lol!

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Tinks,you are allowed to mention who they are by,thats the point.Sod what others think.Would slinks & accymels choices be any better than yours?Will we ever find out?:)

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cascada is good for cover versions ..my personal fave bein..truly madly deeply...orig by savage garden..one of my all time fave songs :D

heres the vid....
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i actually like that version, i aint much into covers but that 1 is ok :D

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Erm yes! trouble is we're subjected to it:( some 80's one two hit wonders are best staying stuck back in the 80's:p:D

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.......... :rofl38: ..... :thefinger

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:rofl38: are we back to signing songs again:eek: :D

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Johnny Cash - Hurt.

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oooooh i like him singing anything :D

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:hidewall: OK, has mel left the thread? :D

I know one that shoudn't bring her running back in ;) Avril Lavignes acoustic cover of Cyndi Lauers Time afterTime is an absolute corker. I like the original but Avrils is brilliant!

Another one is Tommy Knockers - New Horizon, it's not strictly a cover it's a danced up version of John Parr's St Elmos Fire but thats a corker too :)

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Nope im still here hun:D

sighing a phew:D

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I never mentioned the 'M' word ....... :D

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Well done :D hehehehehehe that was the phew:D

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Excellent....................:)

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normally DETEST cover versions, though must admit i prefer Brian Poole@tremeloes version of Do You Love Me to the original by the Contours.

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Elvis Presley - Mystery Train beats the original by Little Junior Parker. And if you don't believe me, I want you all to go to your record collections, select these two platters (taking care not to touch the microgroove playing surfaces) and play them on your dansette record player, then you'll see what I mean!

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probably the greatest of all the remakes was unchained melody 1965 righteous brothers, there was 3 versions in the 1955 chart, jimmy young, al hibbler,and another whose name escapes me at the moment, they were all absolute crap in comparison.

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Nice choice, Mr C, the Righteous Brothers' cover always makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. There were two other versions in 1955, Les Baxter whose version reached number 10 and Liberace who hit the number 20 spot.

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Just looking at the tunes on my comp and could only think of soft cell's cover of gloria jones tainted love, Its very rare for a cover to match up to the original.
Was gerry and the pacemakers "you'll never walk alone" a cover?.. great song, but Liverpool fans sing it every week and so its banned in my house!

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Vic Reeves and the wonderstuff with DIZZY!!

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Who remembers those LPs before Now That's What I Call Music?

They were compilation albums you could buy in the 70's?

Dolly bird in hotpants on the front cover, and all the biggest hits of the day sung by backing singers...badly.

God, they were awful.

I had one for the bargain price of £1.99 from Woolies in Accy, which had Night Fever and Mull of Kintyre on it.:D

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yeh les baxter was who i couldn,t remember wyn, knew about the other but find it very hard to say his name,as i worship the ground hes buried under.;)

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Lovely treacle voiced Ollie Austin does a version of Late in the evening.i think it was either Eddie Cockran or Chuck Berry ,, anyway its brilliant

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I like the Scissor Sisters version of Comfortably Numb, but also really like the original Pink Floyd version, They are very different and fantastic in there own genres.

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:unsure8: Shall I? :rolleyz8: Have I to say it once just to drive her mad? :w00t: Your going to get me in trouble Willow :icon_hump

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The Neville Brothers version Sam Cooke's, "A Change is Gonna Come", beats the original hands down. Daniel Lanois' production & arrangment of this track brought out the best of Aaron Nevilles voice.

It could be sacrilege to say this, but I reckon it is better than Otis Reddings cover of this track.

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Another one i forgot about is George Faiths version of In The Midnight Hour.Off the album To Be A Lover.Classic dub/reggea.

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i see shaker has come up with a top choice again with "Hurt" covered by Johnny Cash .
the video to that is worth a thread of it's own......it makes me cry every time i see it.

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Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower. iIn fact most people who covered a Bob Dylan song did it better than him, brilliant writer and all right singer/guitarist etc but most bands improved on his versions, with the exception of Guns and Roses Knocking on Heavens Door. (Sisters of Mercy did it much better :-))

Other very good covers include Gun's Word Up, Faith No More's War Pigs, Dickies Paranoid and the Jam's Heatwave.

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heres a great track i forgot was a cover just played it. Chris Farlowe - Out of TIME. the original was a stones track on some album aftermath maybe,cant remember. but Farlowes is a real Classic.;)

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Also I love his version of U2's One and, even though when I heard about it thought it was sacrilege, his version of Nick Cave's Mercy Seat.

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I think his version of Personal Jesus is better than the original by far.
Also shows Marilyn Manson how fear really sounds.

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Well just heard Blondie is back hehehehe

Blonde versus edison revamped version of heart of glass

Loved the original & this doesn't seem too different in modern version:rolleyes:

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Oh FFS just found another - the original was fantabulous but the cover of do they know its xmas version 2 ggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr i've just spent mins with my eyes shut & ears covered :mad: dont like - cringe! & cover 3 wasn't great either!

The 1st band aid song was good why ruin a good thing!

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talking of blondie. atomic- sleeper version on trainspotting soundtrack was spot on.

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Weird Al is your man for covers.
All better than originals and wet yourself funny.
Love "the Saga begins" = American Pie for Star Wars fans.
Michael Jacksons - Eat It and FAT
Amish Paradise, Pretty Fly for a Rabbi, Smells like Nirvana
And my own personal favourite "It`s all about the Pentiums Baby !"
Check `em out if you aint already.

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Ooops I forgot U2s "Numb Me, Drill Me, Floss Me, Bill Me"

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I like U2's cover of Helter Skelter (Beatles); though prefer the Oasis live version.

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What about the Siouxsie and the Banshees version ?