Song remakes that are better than the original

[mysteriouswife]

Georgia on My mind - Ray Charles

Hands down the best version

[mysteriouswife]

And if anyone says Cover me up by Morgan Wallen we will fight to the death.He ruined that damn song

[TR]

Oct 13, 2024 19:23:06 GMT -5 mysteriouswife said:

And if anyone says Cover me up by Morgan Wallen we will fight to the death.He ruined that damn song

LOLOLOL I was literally thinking if anyone said that, I’d judge them forever. But I think most posters here hate him.

[1yeartogo]

Chris Cornell’s acoustic cover of Nothing Compares to You so good.

Nirvana TheMan Who Sold the World.

[jinkies]

It's funny to see this thread today, because I heard Weezer's Africa on the radio yesterday and was thinking about how I like it so much better than the original.

[gummybear]

I like Lauryn Hill’s Killing Me Softly With His Song best. I think Roberta Flack sang it popularly but I believe she wasn’t the OG

[slbride2003]

Billy Joel’s Shameless is better than Garth Brooks.
John Mayer’s XO

[simpsongal]

Oct 13, 2024 16:18:27 GMT -5 suzubell said:

Both remakes of Because the Night are better than Springsteen’s (and I’m a huge Springsteen fan).

agreed though I prefer his OG blinded by the light instead of the manfred Mann cover everyone knows.

[mysteriouswife]

Oct 13, 2024 19:26:00 GMT -5 TR said:

Oct 13, 2024 19:23:06 GMT -5 mysteriouswife said:

And if anyone says Cover me up by Morgan Wallen we will fight to the death.He ruined that damn song

LOLOLOL I was literally thinking if anyone said that, I’d judge them forever. But I think most posters here hate him.

There is at least one ding dong who would though.

[lostrn]

Oct 13, 2024 19:53:32 GMT -5 jinkies said:

It's funny to see this thread today, because I heard Weezer's Africa on the radio yesterday and was thinking about how I like it so much better than the original.

Lol I like Leo's Africa. And Disturbed's The Sound of Silence is amazing.

[wise_rita]

Oct 13, 2024 17:34:14 GMT -5 fernweh said:

I like Alien Ant Farm’s version of Smooth Criminal better than Michael Jackson’s

I was coming in to say this, fully expecting to get a rock thrown at my head!

[underwaterrhymes]

Taron Egerton’s version of Sky Full of Stars in Sing 2 is 🔥🔥🔥

[midwestmama]

Last Kiss - Pearl Jam
Your Song - Moulin Rouge Soundtrack

[cap]

Oct 13, 2024 19:19:39 GMT -5 mysteriouswife said:

Oct 13, 2024 15:48:42 GMT -5 cap said:

Nope - I like the Dolly version better. I think that the way she presents it is more in keeping with the meaning of the lyrics. You can feel the sadness in her voice.

Hurt is easily my favorite remake. I don’t even like the original.

Do you know what I will Always love you is about?

She was leaving the Porter Wagoner Show. He was very hurt and felt betrayed. She wrote the song for him and he produced it as their goodbye show.

Were you asking me? If so, yes. But there's still sadness. That said, even with the meaning that most people associate with the song, I still like the Dolly version better because of the sadness. 

[lilafowler]

Dinosaur Jr.-Just Like Heaven

[Eagles]

Oct 13, 2024 14:01:44 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

The Band’s cover of “Atlantic City,” originally by Bruce Springsteen

Now the Chicken Man is going to haunt you.

[dirtyred]

House of the Rising Sun by the Animals

[Eagles]

Oct 13, 2024 14:05:57 GMT -5 tamarindy said:

Across the Universe - Fiona Apple
This Woman’s Work - Maxwell
Live and Let Die - GnR

One thousand percent. No disrespect to Kate Bush (and her version was perfect in She's Having a Baby) but his is just...everything.

[wise_rita]

Oct 14, 2024 6:51:29 GMT -5 midwestmama said:

Your Song - Moulin Rouge Soundtrack

Yassss!

[starburst604]

Oct 13, 2024 16:52:20 GMT -5 statgirl said:

Last Kiss-Pearl Jam

Have you ever seen the rain?—Willie Nelson (Sass Jordan’s version is good too)

Hardcore PJ fans have very strong feelings about Last Kiss apparently. They widely hate it and anyone who likes it is considered a poser fan or something. (I’m not a hardcore fan but my ex FI was so I know wayyyy more about PJ than anyone needs to).

Kind of a reverse of the OP, but I made the weird discovery one day that “Don’t Turn Around” by Ace of Base is a cover of a Tina Turner song. I downloaded that and I actually love it. It’s totally different than the AOB version.

[starburst604]

Oct 13, 2024 19:04:29 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

Oct 13, 2024 18:04:40 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Wild Horses by the Sundays -

I can’t believe I forgot this one. So so good.

I loved that song so much when I heard it in the movie Fear and I went to a record store to try and buy the soundtrack. I had no idea who the artist was or that it was a cover at the time. So I asked the guy there for the Fear soundtrack and he schooled me that the song wasn’t on the soundtrack because they hadn’t gotten permission or something to use it. But he got me The Sundays album so I bought that instead.

[pinkdutchtulips]

Johnny Cash - Hurt
Gwen Stefani - It's My Life
Ataris - Boys of Summer
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal 

[basilosaurus]

UB40 Can't help falling in love (Elvis)

[notreal]

Proud Mary- Tina Turner, the slow part in the in the beginning, just le sigh.

There's a version from the Netherlands that she filmed when she was 70 and it makes me exhausted just watching it.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Oct 13, 2024 19:47:19 GMT -5 1yeartogo said:

Chris Cornell’s acoustic cover of Nothing Compares to You so good.

Nirvana TheMan Who Sold the World.

Nothing Compares 2U goes Cornell> Prince>sinead O’Connor. I will
Be taking no questions.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Oh! And even though I don’t think I d ever heard Prince’s demo of Manic Monday- I can’t unhear his voice in it when the Bangles sing it.

[Susie]

I like Elton John's cover of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds