Covers that are better than the original

Great cover from an amazing album. ‘I Found A Reason’ floors me everytime😢

Saw her perform The Covers Record in its entirety with Mum supporting, playing Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK in its entirety at the Barbican. Now that was a show!

My favourite Dylan cover that is better than the original:

I love Creedence but nah

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All Elliott’s covers are better than the originals tbh.

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I was at that show!

Think I’m in a minority of one here, but this is by far the best version of Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (Sorry Kurt)

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The Microsoft Encarta style video is great too.

Rubbish original, but it makes a surprisingly good pop-punk song.

Posted a couple in the HGATR NIN thread…

1000 Homo DJs improve on the Black Sabbath original by the clever use of adding a chorus, albeit only one word:

Nine Inch Nails improve on the Queen original by smearing it in industrial scuzz and also by not being, y’know, Queen:

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Not better but i have a lot of time for this

It’s a better banger than the original

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No. It’s a good cover but nope.

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Definitely this one:

Arguably this one too?

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No, no, no.

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It’s good but no.

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How to embed youtube? Sorry for idiot question.

Just copy and paste the link into the reply box

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Oh, objectively you’re absolutely right.

On a purely subjective basis, though, I heard the NiN version first, and had no idea it was a Joy Division song.

I got quite a surprise when I first heard the original on Substance.

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