What are the Covers You Like Better than the Original?

[Blue58]

The great Tim Hardin song, no not If I were a carpenter, It’ll never happen again. Those first few lines say it all.

 

[kozzmo]

Juliana Hatfield's version of Elliot Smith's Needle in the Hay

 

[jazdoc]

Original Pink Floyd

 

[jazdoc]

Original by Macklemore

 

[jazdoc]

Stevie Wonder is almost impossible to cover but I really like this one from one of my favorite LP's this year

 

[pjwd]

A fun thread

This is a cracker !

 

[jazdoc]

Original Elvis

 

[jazdoc]

Original Shuggie Otis

 

[HungarianPal]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the queen of covers.
After leaving Ike and before her great comeback with the Private Dancer LP, Tina did not have the luxuary of being handed great original songs but she liked to cover songs she loved, which she did not give up even afterwards.

Here is a New Year special - all songs are great covers except the last one Nutbush, which she had penned herself.

Cat People
Acid Queen
Let's Stay Together
HELP!

 

[Rexp]

 

[jazdoc]

 

[ecolnago]

Original David Bowie

Aurora offers a very engaging take on this Bowie classic, as well.

 

[Recordsguy]

It's rare that anyone can beat a Mary Wells original, but The Marvelettes did with their cover of [ What's Easy For Two ].

 

[daytona600]

 

[A-Line]

Rumours Of Fleetwood Mac cover: "Sara" & "Gypsy"

 

[jbrrp1]

Johnny Cash singing "The Mercy Seat" on American Recordings III. I love Nick Cave's original, but Johnny brings his "voice of God" presence to this spinning demon of a song. Pretty intense!

 

[BruceD]

Stones Good Chris Farlow Very Good!

 

[111db]

I'll play:

Carpenters' Ticket to Ride
Sergio Mendez and Brazil '66's Fool on the Hill
Bruce Hornsby's Madman Across the Water (by a whisker)

All products of master (re)arrangers.

Honorable Mentions: Three Dog Night's Eli's Coming, Blood, Sweat and Tears' God Bless the Child, Patti Smith's Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (gotcha!)

 

[daytona600]

 

[orange55]