This is Pseudo Echo’s cover of Funky Town (originally by Lipps Inc). One of my favourite ever 80s songs.
Hmm…
Well, it’s not a disaster. I’ll give you that.
Oh, yes. So much better than the original.
Sadly, this is blocked in my country.
Tha was blocked. I assume this is the same song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE-itlGNap4
Phil Collins attempted it. Can’t really say he did a whole lot more with it than the original though.
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[/QUOTE]How can you take all of the funk out of Funky Town, replace it with New Wave synths and call it better?
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash.
Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
Twist & Shout - The Beatles
Gloria- Laura Branigan
Hey Joe- Hendrix
Generally the first hit version is the best.
Respect- Otis or Aretha? Both are good.
It sounds cheesy because everyone’s more familiar with the original. But if that recording had somehow come out first, the Doors’ version would sound like a sloppy, muddy, tedious cover of it by a drunken bar band.
Leo Moracchioli does interesting heavy metal covers of famous songs on his U-tube channel. It’s fun to watch his manic mannerisms, but just listening to them they are often seriously good (and I don’t like metal particularly). The production and engineering particularly, the way he layers in all those tracks, playing all the instrument himself. But this cover of ‘Sultans of Swing’ featuring Mary Spender (another U-tube music personality) is another step above even his usual work. This is one of the best covers of anything I’ve ever heard.
Footnote: seems some of the other examples given are where people specializing in performing songs recorded covers of songs by people who, at the time at least, were songwriters more than performers. I guess it still counts, but…Probably, but that one is blocked for me! What a shamozzle.
By being exactly the right age when this version came out.
Or not, depending on whom you ask:
Joe Cocker: With a Little Help From My Friends
With A Little Help From My Friends - you prefer the Beatles, or Joe Cocker?
James Taylor’s covers of How Sweet It Is and I’m A Roadrunner are sooo much more soulful than the Motown originals …
If it’s not been said already, The Flying Pickett’s acapella version of Only You is utterly wonderful.
Went looking for an a capella version of The Platters song. I don’t think I’ve ever heard this song before. Who sang the original?
I discovered Michael Jackson’s cover of “Ain’t No Sunshine” today, and I like it better than the original by Bill Withers.
B.B. King did his usual impeccable job on “Be Careful with the Fool,” but Johnny Winter took it up another couple notches - Be Careful With A Fool - JOHNNY WINTER - YouTube
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Quite so. Also, Johnny Winter did the definitive version of “Highway 61 Revisited,” so much so that Dylan now performs it in concert the way Winter covered it, much like he performs “All Along the Watchtower” the way Hendrix covered it.
Of course, the ultimate example of the cover exceeding the original is Aretha Franklin’s cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect.”
I like “When the Stars Go Blue” by Tim McGraw better than by Ryan Adams.
I think “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” is even better with George Michael. Love them both though.
“A House is not a Home” was Luther’s song after he recorded it. Originally recorded by Dionne Warwick.
I love the song “What Would I Do If I Could Feel” from The Wiz. I prefer the new version by Ne Yo, compared to Nipsey Russell’s.
