Covers that are better than the original

The Gourds - Gin and Juice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur1N3UyT1lE

ha good one, hadn't heard that for a while. Definitely better.

This is great - John Doe covers the Replacements. I found it while I was looking for the Replacements covering Kiss:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1ytBbgVtHQ

Social Distortion does Under My Thumb pretty well, and they also do Death or Glory. Maybe not better than originals, but pretty good.

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Originally Posted by blender

Social Distortion does Under My Thumb pretty well, and they also do Death or Glory. Maybe not better than originals, but pretty good.

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Links, bro, links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDi74zxkvAI

Fair enough. Thanks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cIsZvYvV0w&list=PL0054322B8395F8AF

^^^^BOOO!!!

It's a Dave Mason/Traffic tune, this is the best cover, come on mang:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTcmahEjiY

You never hear the original, it's pretty damn good itself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRcib2lcbjw

(although I just read it's in the move "Flight", I didn't know that).

^^^ I love the Traffic release but fucking cocker is WAY the fuck overplayed.... I could live my whole life not hearing that again. But hey, its music and everyone likes a little bit different, and I like that.

edit: quality kinda sucks but fun song none the less.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sjiDlfB40E

I liked the gunners take on Sympathy - just sorta in your face without all the bongos & shit. Wouldn't say it's beter though.

Pretty much every cover by the Stones, Zeppelin, and Hendrix is better than the original.
Some of Tom Morello's live versions of Ghost of Tom Joad are kinda better than the Springstein version. Not Rage's version, the Morello weird solo "career" version.
Metallica's version of Turn the Page.
The Nirvana Unplugged versions of those 2 or 3 Meat Puppets songs.
Oh, and like half of Sublime's first album is really good covers that in some cases might actually be better than the original.
Johnny Cash's Devil's Right Hand, by Steve Earl. Steve Earl's version of Looking Through You, by the Beatles. The Beatles's version of Twist and Shout.
^^^See what I did there?
/rock and roll nerd

And I'll just leave this right here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ7YgvlZoCQ

http://youtu.be/6cusVoNKZF8

MUCH better than Bo... IMO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olnbwZxjcbI

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MUCH better than Bo... IMO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olnbwZxjcbI

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For sure.

I wouldn't say better, exactly, but this is a seriously smoking version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVN1pqJeLNY

Sid's Version of Frank Sinatra's My Way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDyb_alTkMQ

^^^ nice sid.....

said it before and will say it again... Umph kills the covers....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_KhsutiTlU

Everyone does Dylan better than Dylan but here's one I have liked since freshman year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWCxAElOSxM

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The Black Crows did a better job with Hard to Handle than Otis Redding.

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Love the Crowes and just saw them play HtH a couple months ago but they can't handle a candle to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9a79rdjxs

"Bang Bang" by Monophonics. Much better than Nancy Sinatra's original and Cher's cover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQpDvQfL4oY

If only george were playing gituar

Black Keys - Have Love Will Travel is actually an Black pop song thing that White people in 1959 wouldn't have heard of done in the style of a 60's(?) pop group's cover/rip-off of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mr2fKFkcxsg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20S_kwNb4rg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuDoyBqYpas

http://youtu.be/jadvt7CbH1o