Who's best? - Original or cover? - You choose.

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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 27,352
    https://youtu.be/vbUR0SRceD0
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,096
    edited September 2022
    With Chicago, previously known as Chicago Transit Authority, there is with Kath, the soul, and without. Would they go on to produce so much banal pop if he were alive? Anyway, I love their cover of Spencer Davis Group I'm a man.

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  • daddyjt
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    This one blows me away. First time I heard it, I remember thinking it was the first time I’d ever understood the lyrics to “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. Also, I find Tori’s version much darker - which I like - a lot.

    https://youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg

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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 12,986
    https://youtu.be/b0y_qjdrGio

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 32,019
    edited September 2022
    Harry Nilsson.
    Glad to see him mentioned above. Lennon & McCartney both said, at one point, that he was the best. Lennon & Nilsson got up to some hijinks in later years, of course. :(

    Harry Nilsson certainly wrote some great songs, but some of his best-known songs were covers.

    Early in his career, he did a full album of Randy Newman songs. Compare his version of Living Without You with Newman's, and see what you think.

    https://youtu.be/jFsixGz_uXY

    https://youtu.be/UH8g_gdAMO8

    This one's actually a three-way :#
    Manfred Mann did a fine cover version of this beautiful (and oh-so-sad) song, too. Quite a different vibe than the two above, though. ;)

    https://youtu.be/kgtIZhYd8wU


    ... and if the title of that song seems familiar, stay tuned! :)

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 32,019
    Probably (?) Nilsson's biggest hit was also a cover. The name of the song is almost the same as the one above, interestingly/ironically enough. :disappointed:

    The original:

    https://youtu.be/49dquH8tn6E

    Mr. Nilsson's:

    https://youtu.be/8dnUv3DUP4E

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 32,019
    Early in his career, Nilsson also rather famously covered a Fred Neil song to good effect. :)

    https://youtu.be/2vqfMg7s3Dc

    https://youtu.be/55xQu9eIPIA

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 32,019
    edited September 2022
    Sinead O'Connor's version of Sacrifice is indeed superb.

    Sting (?!?!) ;) does a marvelous version of EJ's weird, atmospheric early song Come Down in Time on that same album (Two Rooms), too. :)

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  • TennMan
    TennMan Posts: 1,250
    I've been listing to Blackberry Smoke a lot. They do a good cover of this Tom Petty song. Wonder Woman playing the violin makes it even better. :)

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 32,019
    ... and Tom Petty did a pretty good cover of a Lucinda Williams song :)

    https://youtu.be/XCo0J_kVKHw

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  • TennMan
    TennMan Posts: 1,250
    I went to see these guys in concert last month and they put on a great show. Didn't cost an arm and a leg either. Turn it up!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diHHoQL1lM8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbwmZruuifo
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 16,048
    edited June 18
    That Chris Cornell cover of Billie Jean was off the charts.

    And I never new ONE was a cover by Three Dog Night, I enjoyed the original but my first thought was it sounds like the Beatles as well.

    I love Three Dog Night, I grew up listening to them so they get this ONE for me.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 12,986
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
    That Chris Cornell cover of Billie Jean was off the charts.

    And I never new ONE was a cover by Three Dog Night, I enjoyed the original but my first thought was it sounds like the Beatles as well.

    I love Three Dog Night, I grew up listening to them so they get this ONE for me.

    "One" is one of those songs (pun intended) that has been covered many times
    The actual original was wriiten and produced in 1968 by Harry Nilsson

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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 2,804
    Sorry (not sorry), but anything that Eva Cassidy covered (RIP) is better than the original...specifically for female vocals.
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  • joebass3
    joebass3 Posts: 214
    Hard to beat the original but the cover was definitely a worthy tribute!

    https://youtu.be/xbhCPt6PZIU

    https://youtu.be/2cZ_EFAmj08
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