Im gonna be a bit tangental. I don’t like much original elvis stuff and I like the beatles but rock matured a lot after them. So often I like remakes of both better than the originals.
Purple Rain covered by The White Birch (Norway)
Anything by Bob Dylan done by literally anyone else.
Excellent answer, hard to beat that. Man could write some songs but goddamn is he grating to listen to
Hard disagree on that one. I fucking love Dylan.
This is how I feel about all Stones songs too.
Dylan can write beautiful music. He just can’t sing for shit.
He can sing, he just has a unique voice.
Listen to Nashville Skyline and John Wesley Harding and tell me that dude can’t sing.
And in the live Bootleg Series albums (thinking of Vol 4 specifically), he really hits all the notes.
I’m talking early-ish Dylan, of course (up to and including, Desire). Nowadays his voice is pretty trashed
Nobody sings a Bob Dylan song worse than Bob Dylan.
He did pretty well on “stuck in the middle”
That was Steeler’s Wheel, who’s singer/guitarist was Gerry Rafferty of “Baker Street” (and others) fame.
I used to think it was Dylan too!
I know
I Prevail’s cover of Taylor swift’s Blank Space
Not that I dislike her music but just not my style of choice.
Feelings — The Offspring
The original was played on the radio way too much in the 80s.
HEEEYYYAAAYYAYAY.
I just need it to be the He-Man variant. With the cook-break
Seether - Careless Whisper
My Chemical Romance did a cover of All I Want For Christmas Is You. Which is way better then the Mariah Carey one.
Pretty much any cover of a tears for fears song. For some reason I don’t vibe with their sound, but their song writing is really good. Their songs get covered a lot and I like almost all of the covers way better than the original. Hell, even if they themselves play an acoustic version of their songs, I really enjoy it!
I recently discovered Shout by Disturbed, it’s pretty good.
Fuck that Nazionist piece of shit.
It’s not just that he’s a piece of shit, it’s that he’s a whiny bitch about being a piece of shit. “oh please don’t give me a hard time for my garbage ass opinions”. Fuck the drummer of System of a Down and his apologist guitarist too while we’re at it.
Hurt by Johnny Cash
Most covers of Beatles songs. I couldn’t get into the hype for the boy band but I like when other people try to spruce up their music a bit. Crucify me.
Why would we crucify you?
I just assumed speaking ill of the Beatles music would be bringing down fury on myself. Mayhaps it is not so controversial
Anyone telling you that your musical tastes are “wrong” would be being really immature
Although yes I would disagree
That’s not a Beatles song, close though, It’s McCartney and the wings.
Pink Pomy Club by Gwar
I saw them do this live, basically the spew was on nonstop throughout.
West End Girls by Gwar
Every cover GWAR did for AV Club kicks ass
Their She Bop is a great cover too.
Postmodern Jukebox’s version of We Can’t Stop.
Their version of Take Me to Church is pretty good, too. Not the the original was bad, but Morgan James just takes it to another level. If you find a live version where it’s just her and a pianist, it’s pretty impressive. Got to see it live awhile back and had chills.
