Music: Original artist or cover version?
 

Any examples of good cover versions compared to the original recording?

I'll kick it of with a marathon in blues.


Spoonful (Willie Dixon)

Howlin' Wolf 1960
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LFjHo7Cdrw"]Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful - YouTube[/ame]


Etta James 1961
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfQ6kUcbs80"]Etta James - Spoonful (Harvey Fuqua) - YouTube[/ame]


Cream 1966
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv-dIdlqahY"]Cream - 06.Spoonful - YouTube[/ame]


Ten Years After 1967
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIGHOu6Gkg"]TEN YEARS AFTER - spoonful - YouTube[/ame]


Willie Dixon 1969
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HMafOfhAus"]Willie Dixon - Spoonful - YouTube[/ame]


Allman Joys 1973
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcBmQbXlfwo"]THE ALLMAN JOYS - SPOONFUL - YouTube[/ame]


Moody Marsden Band 1994
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_4x6U9zxrQ"]The Moody Marsden Band - Spoonful - YouTube[/ame]


Etta James 2000
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wabnJ1TW2TE"]Etta James - Spoonful - YouTube[/ame]


Cream 2005
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUxYzfLZkpc"]Cream - Spoonfull (Royal Albert Hall 2005) (2 of 22) - YouTube[/ame]

Spirit in the Night (Springsteen)

Bruce Springsteen 1973
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIVbLsU9IR8"]Bruce Springsteen Spirit In The Night - YouTube[/ame]


Manfred Mann's Earth Band 1975
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B679xPius5M"]Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Spirits In The Night - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeKs0YJlSTs"]Tash Sultana covers MGMT 'Electric Feel' for Like A Version - YouTube[/ame]

https://www.norwegiancreations.com/w...-different.jpg


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkKulSH2nNc"]Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love HD 720p (best quality) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvVdTlA23w"]Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (Alt. Version) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-FO5tvmCKQ"]Marilyn Manson - You Spin me Round (OFFICIAL HD) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUwEIt9ez7M"]Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water - YouTube[/ame]


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK8wNT2ue6U"]GUITAR HEAVEN: Santana & Jacoby Shaddix do Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water" - YouTube[/ame]


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmHL9pS2xSw"]Dream Theater - Smoke On The Water(Live 2006) - YouTube[/ame]

Worried man blues (Carter Family)

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcvWrxrNk4k"]Carter Family-Worried Man Blues - YouTube[/ame]

Worried man (Devo - song actually starts 2:40 minutes in - but intro is great: see if you recognize any young SNL stars...)

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw-HlGo5SCY"]Devo worried man - YouTube[/ame]

Video was actually part of Neil Young's "Human Highway" movie.

I offer the most difficult of 2 versions to choose from. Which do you like best? I can't choose.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAbY2cmEsS0"]Bob Seger - Turn the page (original 1973) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOibtqWo6z4"]Metallica - Turn The Page - YouTube[/ame]

Cool! Nice and obscure :-)



Those are both very good, agreed :-)

Devo did a lot of great covers- I really like that they never copied the originals - they transformed them into something different/new. Satisfaction got all of the air play but check out:

Secret agent man
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaR3WO71j4"]JOHNNY RIVERS - Secret Agent Man 1966 - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ndN_NXf3o"]DEVO-Secret Agent Man - YouTube[/ame]

R u experienced
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg-guWsl5PY"]Are You Experienced? - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA7RiwMevT8"]Devo's unthinkable cover - YouTube[/ame]

Working in a coal mine
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dy2tuF915E"]Working in the Coal Mine - Lee Dorsey - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms79633njIg&spfreload=10"]Devo - Workin' In A Coalmine (Live On Countdown) - YouTube[/ame]

s no one going to mention this one?

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg_ozk63uyc"]Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower (Live) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY"]The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (Official Audio) - YouTube[/ame]

And, a personal favourite of mine, both these versions

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsFhp0zCrhk"]Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer (1984) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt6Lkgs0kiU"]The Ataris - The Boys of Summer - YouTube[/ame]

I like this version too

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vFaAkQwqZCc[/ame]

Always the nod to the brothers Van Halen.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTsY-oz6Go"]The Kinks - You Really Got Me (Official Audio) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X6e7uctAww"]Van Halen - "You Really Got Me" (Official Music Video) - YouTube[/ame]




[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KhbM2mqhCQ"]Martha Reeves & the Vandellas - Dancing in the Street (1964) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iBpJUzz79c"]Van Halen - Dancing In The Street - YouTube[/ame]

Example 1

Original:
https://youtu.be/fdQgPu3iUYk

Cover:
https://youtu.be/CRxvU40qcEc

Example 2
Original:
https://youtu.be/NdHHsoW6mMg

Cover:
https://youtu.be/MZajolB4oPA

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZBlqcbpmxY"]Jimi Hendrix 'Voodoo Child' (Slight Return) - YouTube[/ame]


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF2ZqlPNuqU"]Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble- Voodoo Child (HQ) - YouTube[/ame]

If we're gonna talk about cover versus the original, how can you NOT talk about "Hurt" originally by Nine Inch Nails and then completely DEMOLISHED by Johhny Cash's cover.

NiN's original:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR4DjYczINM"]Nine Inch Nails - Hurt (VEVO Presents) - YouTube[/ame]



Johnny Cash's cover:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc"]Johnny Cash - Hurt HD 720p - YouTube[/ame]

Heck even Reznor said the following about the way Cash sang it:

"I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore... It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure."

Can't find the original Beatles version on youtube. It falls short anyway.


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=660a3z7r2_4"]The Jeff Healey Band - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (HQ Audio).wmv - YouTube[/ame]


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McQKA0FeArM"]Peter Frampton - Now - 09. While my guitar gently weeps - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zuEfmmCA5s"]Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJcRgMn05Y"]Kylesa - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sk5QM1qN_A"]OSI - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun ( Pink Floyd Cover ) - YouTube[/ame]

I will follow....U2 1980.


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2BqLlVHlWA"]U2 - I will follow - YouTube[/ame]


Great cover by Fear Factory.


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N8t9-7HtQc"]Fear Factory - I Will Follow HD - YouTube[/ame]

War Pigs. Black Sabbath (1970ish)


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ6Zd9w"]Black Sabbath ~ War Pigs - YouTube[/ame]


Another well done cover. Faith No More


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4oZXfrf18Y"]War Pigs by Faith No More - YouTube[/ame]

The Sound of Silence - Original

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4"]The Sound of Silence (Original Version from 1964) - YouTube[/ame]


Completely forgot about this song until Disturbed covered it.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4"]Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence [Official Music Video] - YouTube[/ame]

@Sarlacc Here's another "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" for ya.


India Arie and Carlos Santana


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-5M1_DKvb0"]Santana - While My Guitar Gently Weeps - YouTube[/ame]

Thunderstruck. AC/DC


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM"]AC/DC - Thunderstruck (Official Video) - YouTube[/ame]


I guess you could call this a cover... 2CELLOS


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk"]2CELLOS - Thunderstruck [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - YouTube[/ame]

Wow, that's a good one! Awesome vocals. I still vote for Peter Framtons's guitar work, though :-)

Awesome!

I like these, too :-)

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfGggAGITwg"]2CELLOS - Highway To Hell feat. Steve Vai [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - YouTube[/ame]


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8yymm3DtVA"]2CELLOS - Whole Lotta Love vs. Beethoven 5th Symphony [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - YouTube[/ame]


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS826PwLHdQ"]2CELLOS - Smells Like Teen Spirit [LIVE VIDEO] - YouTube[/ame]

Classical is almost all 'covers' ...

I love this thread. Great stuff.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru3gH27Fn6E"]Beastie Boys - So What Cha Want - YouTube[/ame]
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[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T9qzicML0c"]THE RECORD COMPANY - "So What'cha Want" (Beastie Boys Cover) (Live in Malibu, CA) #JAMINTHEVAN - YouTube[/ame]

I saw Whole Lotta Love up there. Here's another Santana cover, this time with Chris Cornell (RIP Chris).


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsnPZzs7mrk"]GUITAR HEAVEN: Santana & Chris Cornell do Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" - YouTube[/ame]

Very cool. Not something I would slap into the CD player (yes I still use those high tech things) and listen to in the car but I could watch them play for hours.

I know what you mean. They have a pile of videos.


Here's two more good ones...


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V7EugoweM4"]2CELLOS - Welcome To The Jungle [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - YouTube[/ame]





I've never been a Michael Jackson fan, so any one who can make it sound good is ok with me.


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx0xCI1jaUM"]2CELLOS - Smooth Criminal [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - YouTube[/ame]

Lots of folks doing that sort of thing, but few as good as 2CELLOS.


Metallica's "One" on one harp with two girls...


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhOhGhq0e54"]METALLICA “One� - 2 Girls 1 Harp (Harp Twins) HARP METAL - YouTube[/ame]




...and again on one guitar with 3 guys. This guy is amazing with anything that has strings on it.


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzwPZ27ju5I"]Metallica's "One" Played on One Guitar - YouTube[/ame]

Metallica's "Battery"


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liBhu8DBzEQ"]Metallica - Battery (BANJO cover) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqM5L5JQseI"]Lazy - Deep Purple - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itanIFUtsjM&list=PLSHpr766HS6Rc2h4sW9ZkNY0 YajK6Fvle&index=7"]Lazy -- Jimmy Barnes with Joe Bonamassa (Re-Machined A Tribute To Deep Purple) - YouTube[/ame]

That whole machine head tribute album is very cool, see the full playlist.
It's going for a trial period on the USB stick in my car.

Black Sabbath N.I.B.


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-rR9YtzOJ0"]NIB Black Sabbath lyrics - YouTube[/ame]




Ugly Kid Joe N.I.B.


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciKcek_ynYk"]Ugly Kid Joe - N.I.B. - 720p HD - YouTube[/ame]

Another good one is the Black Sabbath tribute called "Nativity in Black".
If you're not aware of it, check it out. Good stuff.

[ame]http://youtu.be/3p_xAToFzck[/ame]

[ame]http://youtu.be/TEUlL3HTjM8[/ame]

[ame]http://youtu.be/gZ_kez7WVUU[/ame]

[ame]http://youtu.be/9Ci8dpsJp2g[/ame]

Well done!

Last Kiss...Wayne Cochran


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKDMRZv4SYc"]Wayne Cochran - Last Kiss (1962 - Primera Versión) - YouTube[/ame]






Last Kiss...Pearl Jam




[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvjTo-hRD5c"]Pearl Jam-Last Kiss - YouTube[/ame]

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[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5P8lrgBtcU"]Ramones - Spider-Man - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy123C8bzFU"]Family guy - Spiderman - YouTube[/ame]