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]