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Best Remake or Cover Version

HarryPalmer

There hasn't been an original film in years, and there always plenty of musical cover versions. Usually they are ****e, but a friend recently pointed this out to me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go&feature=related

Cash covering a classic Nine Inch Nails track. Far, far better than the original. What film remakes or song covers have you found to be better?

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RadioGaGa

HarryPalmer wrote: »

That was a cover? :eek:
Really?

True story, Bob Dylan performed the original.

markok84

RadioGaGa wrote: »

True story, Bob Dylan performed the original.

Is it not a traditional folk song, like most trad irish songs. ie, there is no original?

Try this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEt2XdN_TbQ

Ronanc1

Mad world by Gary Jules' and Michael Andrews' is by far way better than the original tears for fears version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

Skyhawk1990

Dope turning this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo

into this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9heS667LUHE

even though it's down as marylin manson it's Dope. I have looked around and that seems to be the case

GiftofGab

Chris Cornell - Billie Jean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2MgwAJrfXo

RadioGaGa

markok84 wrote: »

Is it not a traditional folk song, like most trad irish songs. ie, there is no original?

Yeah you're right, my bad.

MrMojoRisin

HarryPalmer wrote: »

There hasn't been an original film in years..

What about 'The Life Of David Gale' or any of The Bourne movies?? I could name many others,but I can't think of any more on the spot right now

MrMojoRisin

Sweet Jane by Cowboy Junkies (originally by Lou Reed)

I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston (originally by Dolly Parton)

Love Buzz by Nirvana (originally by Shocking Blue)

How Soon Is Now? by Love Spit Love (originally by The Smiths)

I Heard It Through The Grapevine by Marvin Gaye (originally by Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin separately)

Sweet Love by a British girl band called Fierce (originally by Anita Baker)

You Really Got Me by Van Halen (originally by The Kinks)

sceptre

cosmic wrote: »

Rolf Harris's cover of 'I Touch Myself' :pac:

Not as good as Scala doing the same song. I've played it on the radio a few times. Always with a sense of irony, though I like their stuff. They do a marvellous version of Teenage Dirtbag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ5VNXIiv1c

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Hmm.. I don't know OP, re songs I do know that some artists once they have recorded a song it is theirs no matter who covers it.
The Beatles, Meatloaf and The Rat Pack to mention a few.

In those cases once you have heard the original you won't go buying another version.

I call shenanigans with Alison Krauss' cover of "I will"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWDLm2HoKVU

Also Siouxie covering "Dear Prudence"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRZYeHGEwRo

And Rufus Wainwright doing "Across the Universe". Mostly because I used to like singing along to it in the car, the only place I could hit the high notes. And because it sounds a lot more weary than the Beatles version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H71Fv3PcQQY

Matter of preference though, you'll probably totally disagree

lilminx wrote: »

Mario Bello covering I can't Make you Love me George Micheal from the movie 'Duets'

The George Michael version is also a cover. It's a Bonnie Raitt song.

markok84 wrote: »

Is it not a traditional folk song, like most trad irish songs. ie, there is no original?

It is. There have been recordings of it since the 1930s and it's rather older than that.

Busi_Girl08

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TehFZ38kt6o

vs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oKLq1JD3vU

I am probably the only one who prefers the Metallica cover...but feck it anyways.
I think it kicks ass!!:D

lilminx

[The George Michael version is also a cover. It's a Bonnie Raitt song.]

Thanks. Sceptre. I had a total mental block on the original and could only remember GM's version..

The Pontiac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmbQEQltOwM