[Music] Original songs that were NEVER covered with a better version

[Gwylan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC3AXQ8dPJM

Not Percy Sledge and certainly not the bloody Commitments

 

[Bolton va va]

The original version & IMO much superior to the soppy Moody Blues........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prlWGe2EHro

 

[Gwylan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aIjyX7vwI

Cream may have had a better guitarist but no-one does a vocal like the Wolf

 

[clapham_gull]

The Lord's Prayer

NOT CLIFF RICHARD

 

[Pevenseagull]

The Lord's Prayer

NOT CLIFF RICHARD

Siouxsie and the Banshees ?

 

[Juan Albion]

I WIN!!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g9byxXox-I

I've got a VHS tape of that video somewhere. It was always very powerful.

 

[Juan Albion]

NOT Tracey Ullman.

 

[Saunders]

NOT the flying pickets

 

[Icy Gull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIWY8UyW9bw

Just for a change Joe Cocker didn’t make the best cover version, as he did with quite a few other songs. I think somebody else tried again quite recently but it was a pale imitation. Cannot remember who it was though.

I was surprised to see that the Boxtops recorded for STAX though, not what I am used to hearing from songs on that label.

 

[Gwylan]

I was surprised to see that the Boxtops recorded for STAX though, not what I am used to hearing from songs on that label.

... while we're talking about Alex Chilton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNKSs1J38EA

Pisses all over the Bangles

 

[Is it PotG?]

NOT The Happy Clappy Mondays

 

[Gwylan]

NOT The Happy Clappy Mondays

The HMs also covered another Kongos song ... but the original is much better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1mCYgjhnGg

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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

NOT David Bowie (although it is he as well)

Mmmmmm.....I love both versions, the original for the singing and guitar break in the fade out, and the cover for the molten guitar work in the late middle. I'd call this a draw.

Also, my CF version of the Idiot is AAD and the volume and quality are poor - I wonder if it has been remastered and re-released?

 

[Is it PotG?]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSehtaY6k1U

Same applies here...Ruddy Hell, NOT Soft Cell

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPz21cDK7dg

NOT Johnny Cash

This.

 

[Icy Gull]

Not Susan Boyle or the Children in Need stars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y

Not Susan Boyle again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFLJFl7ws_0

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

This, and not that Jose Feliciano piece of shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoX6AKuYWL8

I am struggling with this thread to be fair, since most of the stuff I like can't really be called 'hit' music, and the covers probably even less so. However, cracking thread

 

[Icy Gull]

This, and not that Jose Feliciano piece of shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoX6AKuYWL8

I am struggling with this thread to be fair, since most of the stuff I like can't really be called 'hit' music, and the covers probably even less so. However, cracking thread

Or Will Young

It is tough to find too many orginals that weren’t covered better by someone else too in fairness

 

[Is it PotG?]

The Top Notes, only the band that the Isley Bros and The Beatles COULD have been.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

For me, this is better than all the covers. May be just me. So unusual in the 60s to hear someone singing in an English accent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50_K8P194M