For me it has to be Fiona Apple's version of Elvis Costello's 'I Want You' or Alien Ant Farm's 'Smooth Criminal'
2007-03-24 11:54:42 · 127 answers · asked by altered ego 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
"This Time I Know It's For Real" by The Young Divas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OggtUayFybw
Originally by Donna Summer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dft5CgEvTPE
2007-03-29 06:21:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jimi Hendrix version of All Along The Watchtower (only time a cover of a Bob Dylan song came close to the original)
The version of Chuck Berry's Rock n Roll Music I saw M. Ward do live in Sheffield
Bob Dylan doing A Red Cadillac And A Black Moustache on a Sun Records tribute CD
2007-03-29 10:20:07 · answer #2 · answered by twenty_pounds_of_headlines 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Booker T & The MGs - "Eleanor Rigby" (Beatles cover)
I don't normally like cover versions, unless the artist adds something to the song to make it their own. I don't like it when they just make a straight copy of the original. Booker T's cover of this Beatles classic is a great example this, it's a much more funkier version. I played it to a friend once and asked them to guess what the original was (the cover is just instrumental), it wasn't until I started to sing the lyrics to it that they realised what it was.
Although original interpretations are the best way to make a cover version, sometimes it doesn't work, like Rolf Harris' version of "Stairway to Heaven"
2007-03-27 21:06:08 · answer #3 · answered by DJ Rizla 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin (original: Kris Kristofferson)
Hurt by Johnny Cash (Orig: Nine Inch Nails)
Respect by Aretha (Orig Otis Redding)
All these things that I've done by Colm Lynch (original: The Killers) Colm Lynch performs most Sunday evening at IN, Dalkey, Co. Dublin. Get yourselves there and be entertained.
2007-03-27 04:15:55 · answer #4 · answered by Roy R 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not really my favourite but very ironic, Radiohead and Carly Simon's James Bond Track 'Nobody Does It Better'
2007-03-30 09:22:06 · answer #5 · answered by RedSnook 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fiona Apple's version from The Beatles "Across The Universe"
U2 Versions of "Dancin' Queen", "Satellite of love", "Unchained Melody", "Helter Skelter".
Whisky In The Jarr By Metallica
Sex Pistols "My Way", covering Frank Sinatra.
There are a lot of good songs that are better than the original song.
2007-03-30 20:28:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marylin Manson's Personal Jesus
2007-03-28 03:51:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mentioned Elvis Costello and I immediately thought of Shipbuilding sung by Robert Wyatt. I think his version was even better than Costellos.
Superb question.
2007-03-26 22:49:57 · answer #8 · answered by Kipper 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Def Leppard's version of "Rock On"
2007-04-01 07:20:10 · answer #9 · answered by Dokken Girl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mike Flowers & His Pop Orchestra's version of Wonder Wall. It beats the Oasis release everytime!
It might have something to do with the fact that I heard it being accompianied by live juggling (four oranges, in tim with the music) on the radio - trust me, it's true - that was performed by an Argentinian pan-pipe player from Chile!
2007-03-26 18:26:51 · answer #10 · answered by cafcnil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roxy Music with Jealous Guy.
Gun with Word Up.
Jimi Hendrix with All Along The Watchtower.
Joe Cocker with A Little Help from My freinds
2007-03-26 05:41:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋