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Cover > Original? Buh?
a pack of wolves:
Pretty much anything from Dynamite With A Laserbeam. It's a load of 31G-related bands doing Queen covers, about half of which are unrecognisable. Melt-Banana's annihilation of We Will Rock You and The Oath battering We Are The Champions into submission are particular highlights.
kilconey:
i've always been partial to oasis's version of "i am the walrus" versus the original. i just like louder guitars.
Empty Friend:
While I have to give it up to Johnny for having more actual feeling in his version than the Rez (angst-tastic), I guess I just don't like the feel as much. I guess I lean more towards the industrial sound on this one because the music itself on Rez's version seems to convey the real feeling where his lyrics don't completely cover. Slightly detuned guitar, creepy white noise... the imagery I get when listening to it just seems so much more hopeless, kinda like silent hill in "evil nighttime mode" type scenery. For Cash, it feels like a cowboy on his horse walking into a dark sunset after he didnt save the day. (which is appropriate for what he was goin for.)
But like I said, it's preference. If you want raw feeling and the simple rhythm then I completely understand going with Cash, but NIN's version seems more well rounded and in the right key for what I got out of the song.
Didn't mean to sound like a prick with the short answer before.
Empty Friend:
the Replicants' version of Silly Love Songs is awesome.
BrittanyMarie:
Lou Barlow covering Round N' Round is WAY better than the RATT original.
Jimi Hendrix covering All Along the Watchtower is better than Bob Dylan's original.
The Decemberists covering Bridges and Balloons is SLIGHTLY better than Joanna Newsom's original... but that one's pretty close.
Yo La Tengo's cover of Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? is better than the original by Rod Stewart.
:)
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