when covers are better than the original.

[Jowy]

Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World - YouTube

Guns N' Roses - Sympathy For The Devil - Lyrics (Last Song For Slash, Duff, Matt in Guns N' Roses) - YouTube

Prove me wrong and also feel free to contribute your opinions.

[The Man]

Dylan has as much as admitted Hendrix's version was better than his and now performs the song in Hendrix's arrangement rather than his own.



Don't get me wrong, I love Dylan, but some of his arrangements are a bit too simplistic for the material he's performing. Some of the other Byrds covers of Dylan I could go either way on.



I mean duh.

Probably a few others but I'm too tired to think of more.

[Pheesh]

Karnivool - Sleeping Satellite [HQ] (Themata bonus track) - YouTube

Just... so, so, soooo much better. That's not even the band's singer singing either, it's the guitarist. I hate how talented they are.

[Denmark]

Birdy - Skinny Love [Official Music Video] - YouTube

Birdy - Fire and Rain - YouTube

LANA DEL REY - BLUE VELVET (MUSIC VIDEO) - YouTube

don't feel like thinking of more right now

[Shorty]

Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
Save Ferris - Come on Eileen (Dexy's Midnight Runners)
Cat Power - I Found a Reason (The Velvet Underground)
Arcade Fire - Naive Melody/This Must Be The Place (Talking Heads)

And I stand by Brie Larson's cover of Black Sheep (Metric). Haters.

[NeoCracker]

No mention of this?

Johnny Cash Hurt - YouTube

[Laddy]

Jeff Buckley's covers are pretty much almost entirely better than the originals.

Also, to be honest, I find most covers of Bob Dylan songs to be superior to Dylan's originals.

[Lonely Paper Star]

Save Ferris - Come on Eileen (Dexy's Midnight Runners)

Jeff Buckley's covers are pretty much almost entirely better than the originals.

Also...

Jamie Cullum - "Don't Stop The Music" (Rihanna cover)
Olivia Ong - "All Out Of Love" (Air Supply cover)
Olivia Ong - "Love Fool" (The Cardigans cover)
Pearl Jam - "Last Kiss" (original ...?)
The Ataris - "Boys of Summer" (Don Henley cover)
The Fray - "Heartless" (Kanye cover)

[Sephex]

I don't care if you guys think I am lame for this, but to me this is the ultimate example. However, I do love the original a lot.

[Pheesh]

I don't care if you guys think I am lame for this, but to me this is the ultimate example. However, I do love the original a lot.

Also this

[Sephex]

Oh man, I forgot how hilarious that video was. It's also a great reminder that no one truly got that Marilyn Manson showed that he was a parody in general, but no one ever got that (hence, why the people who hated "Mechanical Animals" are idiots).

[Burtsplurt]

Therapy? - Diane

Better than the Husker Du original, albeit very creepy! And they released it as a single...

[Shoden]

Motorhead - Whiplash Originally by Metallica

Judas Priest - Diamond and Rust Originally a Joan Baez song

Judas Priest - The Green Manalishi Always causes debate but it was originally a Peter Green song.

[Shorty]

Also, to be honest, I find most covers of Bob Dylan songs to be superior to Dylan's originals.

Andrew Bird - Oh Sister (Bob Dylan)

Yep.

[Shiny]

Brie Larson is good. I like Metric too, but I definitely prefer her voice over Emily Haines' in Black Sheep.