Official Remake Song better than Original Thread

I'll start

Song: HURT

Original: NIN

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

Remake: Johnny Cash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho&feature=related

Grtechguy wrote: I'll start Song: HURT Original: NIN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJKVKglIRs Remake: Johnny Cash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho&feature=related

/Thread....

What has been said cannot be beaten. Do not even try.

"I Will Survive" - Cake > Gloria Gaynor(?)
"Voices" - Jon Brion > Cheap Trick

wild card:
"One" - Aimee Mann/Jon Brion > Harry Nilsson > Three Dog Night

...wait, I have more of these.

Bad Company by 5 Finger Deathpunch > Bad Company by Bad Company

Ooh!
"This Land Is Your Land" - Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings > everybody else

"Higher Ground"

Stevie Wonder (1973)

Red Hot Chili Peppers (1989)

"In The Ghetto" - Candi Staton > Elvis Presley (Sorry, King.)

"The Man Who Sold The World"

David Bowie (1971)

Nirvana (1993)

"Crying Time" - Ray Charles > Buck Owens (Sorry, Buck.)

"Stuck In The Middle" - Eagles of Death Metal > Steeler's Wheel

"All Along The Watchtower" - Jimi > Dylan

"By The Time I Get To Phoenix" - Isaac Hayes > Glenn Campbell

x a billion

"The Boxer" - Waylon Jennings > Paul Simon

"Julia" - Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood > The Beatles

"Que Sera Sera" - Sly & The Family Stone > everybody else

Okay, I'll stop now.

alex wrote: "In The Ghetto" - Candi Staton > Elvis Presley (Sorry, King.)

Of course those are both only until Eric Cartman came along.

MrJoshua wrote:

alex wrote: "In The Ghetto" - Candi Staton > Elvis Presley (Sorry, King.)

Of course those are both only until Eric Cartman came along.

Well, obviously. That and "Come Sail Away."

How about anything by Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies. Example 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBoTwOTKw0I

"Careless Whisper" -- whoever the remake is by > Wham

"How Soon Is Now?" -- The Meatmen > The Smiths

Platinum90 wrote:

Grtechguy wrote: I'll start Song: HURT Original: NIN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJKVKglIRs Remake: Johnny Cash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho&feature=related

/Thread.... What has been said cannot be beaten. Do not even try.

Agreed...I find myself doing that impression a couple of times a week.

A lot of people don't know this one is a cover:

Respect: originally recorded in 1965 by Otis Redding. Covered by Aretha Franklin in 1967. Sorry, Otis.

More Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koxmm-xFbR8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n18tZjzOJI&feature=related

And maybe their crown jewel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvVHjVU-LOg&feature=related

Otis made up for it with "Satisfaction." Keef said he wrote that guitar hook thinking of a horn line from the start.

alex wrote: Otis made up for it with "Satisfaction." Keef said he wrote that guitar hook thinking of a horn line from the start.

Yeah, but Devo does the best version of that one.

The Bird and The Bee have some pretty fantastic Hall & Oates covers.