This could be a pretty contentious thread.
Put up cover versions you think are just as good, if not better, than the original.
I'll kick it off with this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWTtx_PxPo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz1V3y953Xk
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This could be a pretty contentious thread.
Put up cover versions you think are just as good, if not better, than the original.
I'll kick it off with this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWTtx_PxPo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz1V3y953Xk
That cover better than the original, are you serious, hmm ..... nooooooooo.
Anything by Kris Kristofferson!
(He wrote some good songs (Bobby McGee, Sunday morning coming down, etc) but by hell, he couldn't sing)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/men-059FGL0
Johnny Cash, "Sunday Morning Coming Down" | 40 Saddest Country Songs of All Time | Rolling Stone
I don't know if they work, never done it before
Or anything by Dylan. (Duck, roll and run)
A different take on a classic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk
Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt, originally by Nine Inch Nails. Probably the only video clip to ever leave me with goosebumps.
I remember reading about when Trent Reznor first heard it/watched the video clip, he said something along the lines of "wow, it's like I've just lost my girlfriend, that song isn't mine anymore".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc
Cold Chisel's version of Wild Thing (original by The Troggs). This version is a little long and self-indulgent in the middle, but still rocks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ19NWzA8TA
I like James Carr's version of Dark end of the street
but I prefer Richard and Linda Thompson's version
And they say that white people can't sing songs with feeling
Jeff Lang doing Tom Waites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KUVLUpP6QY