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to get things started.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIKBq9TeFlw

Far better than the original but also has been murdered itself by being covered by Atomic Kitten so badly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0skjm-uJSs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQZhN65vq9E&ob=av2e

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsSG-Ctf9bw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmwRQqJsegw&ob=av2e

Ha, this thread should fill the bollocks quota by the end of the day. Top song they are both shit. Paragons version is almost identical to the blondie version, and as for That Florence one, good god man, you couldn't be more wrong, that's appalling.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2veNGSRn9No&feature=fvst

I was there  :)

In the words of the Grateful Dead....what a long strange trip it's been.

just post a tune you cunt

Langers you utter cunt! The original of you got the love is far better than that Florence toss.

Here's mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4_4abCWw-w

I dont like cover versions so I'm the judge! Specials Hmmm passable, Muse though pull the other one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcMAM9B7yAA

Better than Kate Bush! That's as shocking as the Florence one.

all 'cover' threads should have this posted in it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXg9KUiy00

Dave's got the cover versions ethos right. I'll admit that's an equal.

Can't stand her! Futureheads are much more to my taste.

As for this one, it doesn't quite fit the criteria of pissing all over the original, as the Zutons' version is great ... but a decent cover nonetheless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuGPVcug1QM&ob=av3n

Oh, and this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdK9OlOzayE&ob=av2n

To be fair, i wasn't even born when the original was released. Different generations init.

I dont like the original.

Ha ha ha. I dont really like Kate Bush much myself, but her versions are too distinct to cover imo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD_KJ0NuyTw

Marilyn Manson version wins for me. The whole different generation thing again i expect.

Both that and the Gloria Jones versions are good, well done on that one.

Disagree on heartbeats, I think the original by the Knife is better.

Had to give the original of this one a listen just now, as I'd not heard the NIN version before, but i think this pissess all over his weedy vocal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

Might ruffle a few feathers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk8Pb17pcQI&ob=av2e

 Bit of controversy here for Sutton

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfGzWntCbxY

I dont know who the saturdays are and judging by that still of the video, it's not something I'd want to pollute my ears with!

Saw these in Bristol just before they got popular.....Brian is a freaky cunt!

Hurt is a good one though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlHsJ_Ct0jc

Christ no wonder there is so much shit in the charts, judging by what some people think is good music ;)

Going back a bit but.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJLOr8S2d2E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvtJPs8IDgU&ob=av2e

It's far easier to come up with shit covers than good ones. Jay O'Haitchenn has got it right though, although I really liked the original as well. Gonzalez butchered Tear Drop, as did that Faulkner bloke, and Florence, imo, butchered You've Got The Love.

This is perhaps at least decent. Better? Dunno.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMHTjkCJews&feature=related

How dare you diss The Cure. Go and stand in a corner.

Counting Crows are brilliant I've seen them several times, they've only done one shit song....

Love The Cure, but  prefer this version.

I'll continue with the Soft Cell theme from earlier though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFvZpGU2uhk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZat5TbRO3A&ob=av2e

This doesnt cut it mate!

I'll refrain from including Carter's cover of 'Rent' then.

Nah let themselves down with that.

I like cover versions in general, but some songs should be left alone.

My contribution, covering Bowie is rarely a good idea but this is an exception:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fregObNcHC8&ob=av2e

I await Sutton's biblical judgement.

Tis a very good version I like it, but it's not better than Bowie. Beats Lulu though!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQWkJyjwvnU

Not really in the spirit of it all as I love the Billy Bragg version and all, but the thread needs this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fwtFSEovro

My favourite ever cover version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBi-LNM0Og

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5VQV8jTl5Q

Hmm I have got this and the orignal Tommy Hunt on my Ipod, close very close.

How was the lunchtime drink?

 Good call on Bragg/McColl..Nemo

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yFanGv_ReU&feature=fvst

Finally! haha.

But i'll go with the original ;)

I personally would call it a bit more than passable compaired to the original 1948 by Guy Lombardo not the Prince Buster version which was also a cover.

Otherwise I would say that Hurt by JC is the best cover version here, some of these are pretty awful compaired to the originals.

Got a bit lost, but If I didn't agree earlier, Hurt is a bettter version.  I lose.

What the hell is that? Some deaf bloke banging saucepans together?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQcNiD0Z3MU

That one probably is debatable but the next one isn't. One of the best covers of all time and pisses all over the original, cuts it's throat and then rapes the corpse. I give you, Housemartins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6GXV0FNEeI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDzYblAn_0c

Ace, never knew they did that.

That is shit. Why would you want to replace bassey belting it out with some weedy cunts making it sound like every other shite middle of the road indie bollocks. I guess they were just following the bond footprints of radiohead covering Nobody does it better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqprhVmv3BI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHpU0ZfXZ_g&ob=av2n

My cover is better than your cover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVlf04AwHCI

debatable in terms of the original though.

I put it in for Gazza....does he still post on here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx0Shn5Hvpc&feature=channel

Ah 10-12 years ago... So young, so naive :)

The Ferry Corsten mix of William Orbit's version pisses all over the Tiesto version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3dj0I-tozU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ompcQ6o_iCI

Better than Dylan's version.

In fact, a lot of Dylan's songs were better when covered (Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower & Like a Rolling Stone) and this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcWTTs8QVRc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea0759BeJ2U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts19Nn-xyGs

Good grief.

Haven't heard anything from Live At Leeds for years....possibly the most dull album sleeve of all time....surely the most dull You Tube vid.

Yes to both. Ridiculously good live album though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0&feature=related

A superb interpretation But Pulp's couldn't ever be beaten.

I nearly posted that. Not sure you can claim it's better than the original, but it's absolutely fucking fantastic in a different way.

The whole album is bizarrely outstanding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE3-q-aoFZI&feature=related

You're good at this!

http://www.youtube.com/v/UH0b44T7zD4

http://www.youtube.com/v/3hVYb06n_B8

Although i guess that isn't strictly a cover as he did write it...

Am I missing something here?

Jokingly alluding to the fact you may have been drinking with your choice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gVxRvNfFLg

Nope. Much as I don't like Oasis, their's will always be the definitive and best version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-1Ihwt48EM&feature=related

Oh, and since we are on an STFC forum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCfAmkvuXP8

Never loved Elvis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL1GzbUdtfg

another beatles cover.debateable if it's better than the original.i think it is though

some good shouts in this thread.some fucking embarrasingly awful ones too.
william shatner for fucks sake.  looking for improvements on the originals not just covers from utter shite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-I-p5F-D2E

Would suggest hurt by johnny cash but assume someone has already posted that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6FZwVvS8_8

Controversial one but I think it slightly better than the Lennon version a lot will disagree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uYPzSAeEwM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr4XnP4tAtc&feature=related

You've won the booby prize that's for certain!

now wilson pickett is a god,but aretha aboslutely tears this up.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0XAI-PFQcA&feature=related

That's really only the third along with Hurt and Watchtower I'd agree with. That's the 3 winners Batch comes last.

Otis Redding ;)

I was going to post some NFG but LucienSanchez beat me to it.

Have some Weller instead...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clEFQ08Q2as

you're right.i fucked up.still fucking ace though

:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzqdfFUCpoM

Heard this on the radio today..........love her or hate her she has a great voice.
Now before you lambast me i know it isn't the best cover ever,but its a nice tune.

I actually hate this song. But its hard to argue in the x-factor  style that she didn't own the song and make it her own

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_fPS0HwjJc&feature=fvst

Prince wrote it for The Family:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8854IiDjlw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYDzq_Q823o

Pisses over both of the others. But not as good as the Jackie Wilson version that I'm fucking sure I've got on an old soul rarities compilation on vinyl somewhere

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godmother of punk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXdQ6SO7aFk

I love Dylan, and hate that song, and all other attempts at that song until now. That version is much much better.

I'm going to check out Antony & The Johnsons albums, I've got their first but that's it.

 Mex might like it..

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8oqKyVW978

Weird, I really like Taylor Swift, I like Coldplay, I like that tune, but that cover is just awful.

i win, try not smiling to this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB24z00ajU4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puYt7B-tKQ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy1ueZf1WMQ

The best cover ever!

That's a good version for sure. I wouldn't say it pisses all over the original though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o21-k&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHtuGMHWAf0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4H9yZBjgSI

That's horrible!

Paul Anka's done a couple of albums of cover versions in the 'Swing' style..I like...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_cmmCRVs38

Check this one out, it is fucking terrible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU5-pGKP0LE

Indeed it is. But so was the original ::)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo_dV7E4aIQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCv2cgIlnHA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWnLyTxSQiY&feature=related

Now that's a good version..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWnLyTxSQiY

OK, so why are You Tube clips only coming up as links now? :hmmm:

Yeah, i've asked that before, apparently each page can only have a maximum of 12 embedded youtube videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMwXPueu-RM&feature=related

who the fuck is mickey bubble?

Michael Buble

Anyone who thinks any Dylan cover is better than the original is completely wrong in my opinion-Hendrix's AATW although technically brilliant,totally lacks the menace and stark foreboding of the original.Its sparseness does not really lend itself to guitar wizardry and Guns and Roses-perlease!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLEMncv140s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdTl7kp1Da0

Great band and very under rated..........if they had been British or American and not Dutch i feel they would be a household name to all.
Radar Love is one of my all time favourite records.