Beatles cover version that u prefer to the original. - Music

bobbyb5

Gender: Male
Location: New York

Are there any covers of Beatles songs u like better than the originals?
Here's a few I really like. And they're VERY surprising, I believe.

Dear Prudence. Siouxsie and the Banshees
Day Tripper. Type O Negative
We Can Work It Out. Chaka Khan
Across the Universe. David Bowie
Fool on the Hill. Sergio Mendez & Brazil 66 (I'm not joking)
Black Crows. Happiness is a Warm Gun
Ticket to ride. Bad Company
Got to Get You Into My Life. Earth Wind and Fire
A Hard Day's Night. The Supremes. ( its wild!)
Every Night. Phoebe Snow
Dont Let Me Down. Phoebe Snow
White Zombie. Helter Skelter
Pat Benatar. HelterSkelter
The Vines. Im Only Sleeping
You Wont See Me. Anne Murray

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Tha1ChiefRocka
Yeah, well hey, I'm really sorry.

Location: Kansas

BTW I don't think a lot of these are better, but at least worth mentioning.
The Wedding Present- Getting Better

Boris and Merzbow- Walrus

Siouxsie and the Banshees- Dear Prudence

Brothers Johnson- Come Together

This is just crazy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMz4L3JPYnwz

The Damned- Help!

Fats Domino- Lady Madonna

The Feelies- Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me and My Monkey

Edit, after doing more research and remembering some other "interesting ones:

The Fall- A Day in the Life

Isaac Hayes- Something

Jimi Hendrix- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

King Missile- We Can Work It Out

Ramsey Lewis (My GOD)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9glbqaZHRS8

Miriam Makeba- In My Life

Youssou N'Dour- Ob La Di Ob La Da

Harry Nilsson- She's Leaving Home

This whole album is pretty cool (not necessarily better)

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Basie On The Beatles by Count Basie

Last but not least these two gems from The Residents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AidJbgfGU_4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aQ177-DXuA

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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad

Location: Ground Control

Probably don't prefer over the original, but I liked this soundtrack:

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I Am Sam Soundtrack by Various Artists

Romanelli
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bobbyb5 wrote:

Are there any covers of Beatles songs u like better than the originals?
Here's a few I really like. And they're VERY surprising, I believe.

Black Crows. Happiness is a Warm Gun

No. I'm sorry. I have to respectfully disagree on this one. I'm familiar with this. The Crowes played this song exactly one time. And one time only. It was at a San Francisco Fillmore show in 2005. They barely knew the song...the vocals were tired (it was an encore), and it was a struggle from the opening guitar riff to get the song right. They turned it into an 8 minute jam. There is nothing about their one off live version (recorded from the audience by a fan) that could be considered in any way superior or equal to what The Beatles did on The White Album...it doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same paragraph. The Crowes never recorded a studio version, and they never even played the song again. They did a lot of covers in their career. People came for the originals, and they got through the covers.
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Happiness is a warm gun by the Breeders
With a little help by my friends by Joe Cocker

bobbyb5

Gender: Male
Location: New York

Romanelli wrote:

bobbyb5 wrote:

Are there any covers of Beatles songs u like better than the originals?
Here's a few I really like. And they're VERY surprising, I believe.

Black Crows. Happiness is a Warm Gun

No. I'm sorry. I have to respectfully disagree on this one. I'm familiar with this. The Crowes played this song exactly one time. And one time only. It was at a San Francisco Fillmore show in 2005. They barely knew the song...the vocals were tired (it was an encore), and it was a struggle from the opening guitar riff to get the song right. They turned it into an 8 minute jam. There is nothing about their one off live version (recorded from the audience by a fan) that could be considered in any way superior or equal to what The Beatles did on The White Album...it doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same paragraph. The Crowes never recorded a studio version, and they never even played the song again. They did a lot of covers in their career. People came for the originals, and they got through the covers.

The reason i say i like it better is because : u know how theres a tiny handful of Beatles songs that u just dont like much, but then someone else does it and u like it better? Well for me that's one of em. Lol. Other ones are Got to get u into my life, Helter Skelter, along with a couple more on White album. Also Across the Universe.

It's online. If anyone is interested in it.