Reply to: Covers

[Uncle Albert]

Ballroom Blitz - The Damned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJRGBWZLzSo
The KKK took my baby away - Shonen Knife https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPdNRg51a50
Marching on Together - BodyJar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wf64RXMnx0

[Pogle]

I second Jonny Cash and Hurt

Also Soft Cell - Tainted love.

But the best ever cover - ever in the history of the world is....

Walk on By by the Stranglers

[I just need to test it]

John Otway - House Of The Rising Sun

As amused as I am by John Otway I badly wanted to punch his face in within fifteen seconds of the start of this song.

[I just need to test it]

The White Stripes - Jolene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX8piT5lOsM

Alanis Morissette - My Humps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91sqAs-_-g

[jonskids]

Rezillos Glad All Over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR0PjCCpQT4

[aoxomoxoa]

Grateful Dead - Morning Dew

[stek]

This one tops the lot for me....

[Dark Black]

Not "better than original" but good covers nevertheless:

Comfortably Numb - Sisters of Mercy

Green Manalishi - Judas Priest (clearly Peter Green was a guitar god back in the day but Priest did do a decent heavy rock version)

Baby One More Time - The Faces of Sarah (Goth does Britney!)

[v8gaz]

For a proper hardcore cover, try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUCLoPFvNKY

[jonskids]

Always thought that Stiff Little Fingers cover of the Specials Doesn't Make It Alright was better than the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTLSa7r_tks

[stek]

Never heard of any of them. Nor the song.

Tsoi was the soviet Lennon...

[Martin Scroatman]

Zemira's cover of Tsio's 'Kukushka' is exemplary, but I also like the rocky Bi-2 version too..

Never heard of any of them. Nor the song.

[mudskipper]

Worst:

Madonna - American Pie

I quite like it.

[mudskipper]

"And have you seen the old girl
Who walks the Streets Of London
She carries her old knickers in two polythene bags"

[stek]

Not a cover, fook it, this song makes me cry like a baby...

So many real references about real people, that had died (at the time)....