So many great covers out there.
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Sound of Silence - Disturbed
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Within Temptation covering Radioactive by Imagine Dragons.
Nothing can beat the official music video's surreal hilarity though.
My vote goes to Jimi and 'All Along the Watchtower'.
IIRC Dylan’s response to hearing Hendrix play it was “oh that’s how you play that song.”
sinead o'connor nothing compares to you
Naw, it's got to be Aretha Franklin's "Respect". Or maybe the Beatles with "Twist and Shout". Soft Cell's "Tainted Love"?
Hurt was always a great track. But Cash picked it up and put a folk singers life of real pain behind it. In addition he picked it up and blessed it right squarely in front of the faces of the original nine inch nails fans that are starting to age, like you saying see what's coming. It almost made it personal.
I’m a huge NIN fan, and the first time I hear Cash sing Hurt, I cried.
Every thing you said his soul is just there so raw and worn.
Even Trent has said it is not his song anymore
I stopped listening to radio and spotify some time ago. I only pop out a few times a year and look for new stuff to add to my repo. I had heard this came out which is a bit unusual. New tracks don't make the news very often.
I expected it to be good because Cash is historically good. I expected it to be just another cover that I would like and respect but not like as much as the original.
The first time I heard it it was very strong, I didn't really shed any tears though. I knew Trent's history with the song, and I knew he put his experiences into that song.
I think it was when I read the piece the independent did on his cover before I realized the actual gravitas.
When cash recorded this, his wife was on her deathbed and he not far from it. You can almost feel him slipping away while he's singing it. It's the last prayer of a dying man.
That's some amazing work.
American IV was a powerful album of covers. We'll Meet Again makes me cry every time. He's talking directly to his wife, and you can feel the fear and despair behind his words as he's comforting and reassuring her as she's dying. Ugh, feels for Christmas this year it is.
1985 by SR-71 covered by bowling for soup.
Colin Hay's "I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You" will always break my heart, but Jem Cassar-Daley's cover shatters my entire being.
I don’t know if this counts since they worked on it with her, but the Kacey Musgraves version of Neon Moon is fantastic
Edit: ooooooo and I Don’t Wanna Grow Up by Hayes Carll
Bonnie Taylor's original cover is a work of art. This proves she's still got it. I enjoyed it just as much as the Johnny Cash Hurt remaster. https://youtu.be/eLVft8O1G98?si=odUHsQ1CqfSYfpq_
Hm? Isn't that a Bonnie Tyler song?
Classics up in here! But for my money, and tears, Heart honoring Led Zeppelin at the Kennedy Center with Stairway to Heaven trumps all. And that performance was indeed an honor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxOaDeJmXk
I can't even add to that comment. Made Robert Plant cry, maybe you will too.
Gawd dayum that's an amazing cover
Hurt is great too, but I was blown away by Disturbed's cover of Simon and Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence the first time I heard it. And even now it gives me chills.
The Disturbed cover is so much better than the original that it makes the original sound like a bar cover.
In what way is it better? The Disturbed cover is just... Loud.
I honestly thought we'd escaped the Disturbed cover of Sound of Silence as a culture in the mid-to-late 2010s. It's aggressively shit.
Check out the thrash band Nevermore's cover of the sound of silence, epic. Came out a fair bit earlier
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It's so good, I know!
I'm a huge fan of The Who. Not so much Pearl Jam, but goddamn they did a fine cover of Love Reign O'er Me:
This came up in another thread recently. T-Pain knocked War Pigs out of the park:
Blind Guardian is niche enough that they're not going to be on many people's radar, let alone for best cover ever. But their version of Mr. Sandman always brings a smile to my face, if nothing else than for the iterative nature of each verse.
Fuck yes for Blind Guardian call
Just reminded me of the time a cover of sad but true came on Spotify. I asked who it was and gf said The Hu. I thought she said The Who and was extremely confused for about 10 seconds until the Mongolian throat singing started.
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Rise Against's cover of "Ballad of Hollis Brown" comes to mind.
Throwing this one in for consideration.
I would've added it to my list if you hadn't. Jeff's version is so good the Cohen original sounds like a cover to me these days.
Also, the only other song besides Cash's rendition of Hurt that will move me to tears on every listen.
Some of these are a bit more obscure, but I think these deserve mention for either transforming or faithfully updating the original songs:
Visigoth covering Necropolis by Manila road: https://youtu.be/QWixcWq1HPk
Cradle of filth covering Temptation by Heaven 17: https://youtu.be/MfMa2lrFxhY
The unseen covering Paint it black by the Rolling Stones: https://youtu.be/QAowDvxJN1A
Type O Negative covering Cinnamon girl by Neil Young: https://youtu.be/BO9aD4mzSE8
Electric Callboy covering Everytime we touch by Cascada: https://youtu.be/AuBXeF5acqE
Marylin Mansion covering Tainted love by Soft Cell: https://youtu.be/srcb-zmKDOE
HIM covering Wicked game by Chris Isaak: https://youtu.be/8oYodfK4DkE
And who can forget the Guns and Roses cover of Knocking on Heaven's door by Bob Dylan: https://youtu.be/k04tX2fvh0o (I'm pretty sure this is another case of a super popular cover eclipsing the original by another super star)
If we're going obscure, chvrches is worth a mention: https://youtu.be/msgimk3mV6g
This Kendrick Lamar cover is incredible. Similarly, they have a cover of the Arctic Monkeys that's awesome.
Wow. Never heard this version of the song, but man did Chvrches knock out it the park. It's almost unrecognizable but familiar at the same time.
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Mainstream speaking it's hard to beat All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix.
That Hurt cover is amazing.
Also putting a shout out to one I haven't seen mentioned yet.
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There have been countless covers of "while my guitar gently weeps" but I think none of them were as flamboyant as the collaboration between Dani Harrison, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lyne, and of course Prince.
I don't agree with folks saying this is the best guitar solo ever but man does Prince pour his heart and soul into it.
After watching 12tone's analysis of this solo it gave me an all new appreciation for this cover and Prince. Don't get me wrong, before I thought Prince was top 10 now I'd consider his in contention for number 1.
Anyone else prefer Muse's version of Feelin Good over aaaaall the others? So passionate
I really love "when the levee breaks" by Led Zeppelin, but the original by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy deserves more recognition.
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