Music: What remakes do you think are better than the original song?

Johnny Cash's "Hurt".

It's a cover of Nine Inch Nail's "Hurt".

 

The Beatles version of Twist and Shout
The Clash's version of I Fought the Law
There's probably a few more I like that I can't think of right now, but those are the two that immediately come to mind

 

YES!
All Along the Watch Tower- Jimi Hendrix (Original By Bob Dylan)
Hurt- Johnny Cash ( Original by NIN)
Please Mr. Postman - The Beatles (Original By The Marvelettes?)
The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana (Original by David Bowie)
Last Kiss- Pearl Jam covered it, idk who wrote the original
And Eddie Vedder did several covers of stuff which I really like.

 

Leona Lewis - Run (original by Snow Patrol)
Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This (original by Kelly Clarkson)
Leona Lewis - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (original by Roberta Flack)
Leona Lewis - Hurt (original by Nine Inch Nails)

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You (original by Dolly Parton) ... yes people this legendary song was a cover lol

Mariah Carey - Without You (original by Harry Nielson)
Mariah Carey - Open Arms (original by Journey)

Celine Dion - Power Of Love (original by Jennifer Rush)
Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back To Me Now (original by Pandora's Box)

Elton John - Candle In The Wind 1997 Princess Diana Funeral Version (Original was by him but about Marilyn Monroe)

 

Guns N' Roses~ Knockin' on Heaven's Door and Sympathy for the Devil. Really they're the only ones that immediately come to mind in terms of covers being better than the original.

That and most of the songs in Across the Universe. They managed to both keep the feel of the Beatles and modernize the sound at the same time. It really was a remarkable movie, I dare say an instant classic.

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Or more relevant to LGBT issues, Prudence's first appearance:

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Coroner - She's so Heavy (original by the Beatles)
Vader - fight fire with fire, raining blood (original by metallica and slayer respectively)
tori amos - raining blood ( original by slayer)
santana - black magic woman/gypsy queen (original by fleetwood mac and gabor szabo respectively)

 

Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You (DAMN that girl could sing!!)
the Beatle's Twist and Shout (Originally sung by the Isley Brothers)
the Beach Boy's California Dreamin' (I find it slightly better than the Mamas and the Papas).

 

Quiet Riot - Come on Feel the Noise (Slade)

Guns n' Roses - Knocking on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan)

Counting Crows-Big yellow taxi (Joni Mitchell)

Credence Clearwater Revival - Good golly miss molly (Little Richard)

Pearl Jam- Last Kiss (Wayne Cochran)

Nazareth- Love Hurts (The Everly Brothers )

Janis Joplin-Me and Bobby Mcghee (Kris Kristofferson)

Metallica-Tuesdays Gone (Lynyard Skynard)

Metallica- Turn the Page (Bob Segar)

Metallica- Whisky in the Jar ( The Dubliners)


I knew many were remakes but had to look up who did the originals.

 

Tori Amos version of '97 Bonnie and Clyde (Orginal by Eminem). Tori make that song a creepy masterpiece.

Also Real Men (Joe Jackson) makes me emotional everytime. I love how Tori makes love with piano and notes.

I love both Kate Bush and Within Temptation version of "Running up that Hill".


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A duet of this song by Sharon and Kate would be toe curlingly awesome. :lol:

 

The Hunters Gets Captured by the Game by Massive Attack w./ Tracey Thorn (original by The Marvelettes)
Fly Me to the Moon by Julie London (original recording by Kaye Ballard)
Chariot (I Will Follow Him) by Betty Curtis (first recording by Franck Pourcel)
The Man With the Golden Arm by Barry Adamson (original by Elmer Bernstein)

 

Hurt by Johnny cash is far superior to the original nine inch nails song but that's the only one I can think of

 

Personal Jesus-Marylin Manson (IDK who did the original.)
I don't know why, but that song makes me SO horny.
Maybe it's because Marylin Manson is sexy as hell.

 

I like remake songs that make it completely different than the original (after all, that's the point of making a cover anyway)
I do agree that Johnny Cash made Hurt his song and I read in an article where Trent Reznor even said that it wasn't his song anymore which is pretty remarkable.
I also think Nina Simone's "Feeling Good" is a lot better than the Broadway original. She sang it with so much passion and conviction.
Sinead O' Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U" (Prince Original)
Ben Folds' "Bitches Ain't Shit" (Dr. Dre Original)

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Depeche Mode. But I disagree that Marilyn's version is better

 

Michael Jackson's version of Come Together is better than the original in my opinion

 

There are some versions of songs which I like that are almost as good as the orignial ones (or even better in some cases):

· 10,000 Maniacs' "Because the Night" cover (original version by Patti Smith).

· Carola's "Woman in Love" cover (original version by Barbra Streisand).

· Celtic Woman's "Orinoco Flow" cover (original version by Enya).

· Ruth Lorenzo's "Always" cover (original version by Bon Jovi).

· Eli Lieb's "Born to Die" cover (original version by Lana del Rey).

· The Corrs' "Old Town" cover (original version by Philip Lynott). In this case I prefer The Corrs' version.

· The Corrs and Bono's "When the Stars Go Blue" cover (original version by Ryan Adams). I prefer the cover too.

· Katerine Avgoustakis' "Ayo Technology" cover and Milow's "Ayo Technology" cover (original version by 50 Cent). Both are much better than the original one, in my opinion.

· Girls Aloud's "I'll Stand by You" cover (original version by The Pretenders).

· Ella Fitzgerald's "Got to Get you into my Life" cover (original version by The Beatles). I prefer Ella Fitzgerald's version.

· Hermes House Band's "The Rhythm of the Night" cover (original version by Corona).

 

On that I agree.

Also another cover I like. I never liked Guns 'n' Roses but loved this song from Sheryl.

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The original was by Depache Mode.
I think I actually like Johnny Cash's version of Personal Jesus even more than Marylin Manson's.

I remember hearing Joe Cocker's little help from my friends before the original Beatles version. And I think I still like it a little better. Sorry Ringo.

Cover
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Definitely Mad World by Gary Jules is better than the original Tears for Fears version.

Cover
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--Edit--
Removed covers from Triple J's Like a Version
Recommend looking them up though.

 

10,000 maniacs, because the night 8)

 

How could I forget.
I Heard It Through The Grapevine.
This one's got 3 versions.

Prefer the Marvin Gaye and the CCR versions over the original Gladys Knight and the Pips version.

Marvin Gaye version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajBdDM2qdg

CCR version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93S_l0qZrXA

Original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWvwP72FuVg