DeafTourette
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Song: Never Enough
Original artist: Loren Allred
Cover artist: Katrina Velarde
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Original artist: Loren Allred
Cover artist: Katrina Velarde
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Who Did It Better? Original vs Cover
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DeafTourette
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KillCleanEat
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Gun n roses covered a few songs and did better than the original.
Live and let die - Paul McCartney
Knockin' on heavens door - Bob Dylan
Both done better by guns n roses.
Live and let die - Paul McCartney
Knockin' on heavens door - Bob Dylan
Both done better by guns n roses.
Bullet Club
Banned
Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
Los Colorados - Hot N Cold
Los Colorados - Hot N Cold
KillCleanEat
Member
Honestly, I'm with you. Cash's cover, while also great. I prefer the original.
C4lukin2
Banned
Right?
The Cash version is fantastic. And with the music video with his wife, and he is at a decaying museum of his legacy, and close to death.
And it is all decrepit and awful.. It is an amazing moment.
No hate for either version. But Crown of Shit is better then crown of thorns. And Cash elevated the song in a different way.
It was not a tiny 30 something bitching about life. It was a well torn bad ass, watching his kingdom crumbling.
But still the NIN version is better. Cash had an amazing career, but he did not write Hurt.
Insane Metal
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JimiNutz
Banned
Mohonky
Member
Thats a tough one right there. Usually I can seperate them, but that....hrmmmm
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SLoWMoTIoN
Unconfirmed Member
Original is 99% always better.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
That is an example of a great cover that completely transforms the meaning of the song without changing the lyrics.
One is a nice little song about how it is good to have friends, the cover is a song about needing friends to just survive.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
How about choosing in the OP?
For me, it's Katrina by a MILE! Her voice far surpasses Allred. Plus she employs just as much emotion, if not more, into her cover of the song.
The Bloody-Nine
Member
Wicked Game.
Chris Isaak:
HIM
I prefer the HIM cover.
Chris Isaak:
HIM
I prefer the HIM cover.
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SLoWMoTIoN
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Add a poll
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Axelay - Winner is guitar guy
Roxette - Winner is original, but A for effort for the cover
Roxette - Winner is original, but A for effort for the cover
Kataploom
Gold Member
Came here to post this. I like the COF version much more, tbh... I can remember when I was drinking with two friends, one of them I just knew that night and we went to my house to take a break from the streets... I just started showing her that version and ended up staying till morning listening to more COF because she loved them.
Good old times :')
synchronicity
Member
Not a bad cover -never heard it before, but I really love the original, so I'd stick with that one.
I'll go back to the 80's since I'm an 80's child:
I'll take the Laura Branigan remake, and although her cover doesn't mix things up too much, I still prefer it. Plus, Vice City.
80's win again. Definitive proof that the 80's cannot be topped.
The Bloody-Nine
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Master Of Illusion
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Mandatory Disturbed Vs. Genesis post.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Done
LegendOfKage
Member
The story behind that song is great, and it makes it even more crushingly romantic. Chris Isaak found himself falling in love with a woman. Upon telling her that he wanted to date, she told him that she found him attractive, but also said that she was just interested in a physical relationship. He turned her down, and that song was the result.
Because I noticed we have several Garbage fans in another thread
I like her voice better for this song.
I do like Garbage, and that is a pretty good cover, but I still think I like The Sundays version the most.
If you enjoy the song, I'd definitely recommend their music, especially their first and third albums.
Rockondevil
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Macapala
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I like Eric Clapton's cover of Knocking on Heaven's Door more than the original.
The Bloody-Nine
Member
Go Your Own Way.
That's an outstanding cover.
That's an outstanding cover.
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Ivory Blood
Member
Original Paranoid by Black Sabbath
vs cover by Megadeth
Personally prefer the cover version.
vs cover by Megadeth
Personally prefer the cover version.
Stefan.North
Member
The copy is never better than the original.
Original artist had to both compose and record a song, while artist who makes a remade version only has to record it. And, since it's usually a popular song, it feeds of the popularity that original artist gained.
Therefore, remade songs are nothing to brag about.
Original artist had to both compose and record a song, while artist who makes a remade version only has to record it. And, since it's usually a popular song, it feeds of the popularity that original artist gained.
Therefore, remade songs are nothing to brag about.
The Bloody-Nine
Member
Lots of covers are better than the originals. You have a bunch of people in this very thread stating that they think cover versions are better.
The notion that something can't be improved upon is absurd.
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Punished Miku
Banned
Not for me. I knew the answer 6 seconds into the Hendrix one lol.
That's tough one. I like the arrangement of the Flack version and the production and singing of Fugees.
Going to go with Flack. The singing wasn't as strong but not so bad as to ruin it.
God Enel
Member
Yeah I absolutely agree. I always thought the fugees one is the original, or rather I never knew they covered the song and I thought it was absolutely great. Then I was looking for it on Spotify and only found the flack version and that’s when I learned that the fugees only covered the song and so I was/am listening only to the flack version and now I like it more than the fugees one.
DeafTourette
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Liljagare
Member
I remember hearing on the radio how one day Roberta Flack heard the cover done by the Fugees when she was in a store, it was the first time she had heard it and she thought it was actually her singing with type of remix. If the original singer can't even tell it is not her singing...well that's a pretty good cover.
Here's two more:
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bitbydeath
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Everybody wants to rule the world
Portia Doubleday owns it. It annoys me how happy and upbeat the original comes across given the lyrics used.
Portia Doubleday owns it. It annoys me how happy and upbeat the original comes across given the lyrics used.
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TheGreatYosh
Banned
Running Up That Hill
Original: Kate Bush
Cover: Placebo
Cover: Meg Meyers
Original: Kate Bush
Cover: Placebo
Cover: Meg Meyers
#Phonepunk#
Banned
dat Vox Continental organ <3
synchronicity
Member
I had no idea that was a cover. Although I can't watch that video or find it to compare.
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