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What cover songs do you feel are better than the original?
- Thread starter FoxMcChief
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Pegasus Actual
Gold Member
This sent me down a little bit of a rabbit hole as it turns out there are quite a few covers of this song.
This is the only one that passed the vibe check for me:
Not generally a Marilyn Manson fan, and I'll probably still take the original even though it always felt like a bit of an Ozzy Osbourne LARP. The song really needs the male vocals contrasted with the background kid vocals IMO.
kevboard
Member
yeah I also don't really like his original music, but his covers are usually pretty decent.
I'm just a massive Anneke van Giersbergen fanboy, so I like that Vomitron version the best by default
oh, I got a controversial one:
It's been posted many times in the thread.
kevboard
Member
oh damn, I must have missed it. I thought this was an unpopular opinion, given that it's a The Who song, and it takes some significant liberties with it.
I wanted to put something here just to share a song I liked but couldn't think of anything. I considered putting down Helen Reddy's "Delta Dawn" and telling the lie that I preferred it to Tanya Tucker's original. Then happily I discovered that the original is a 5 minutes long discombobulated mess by Bette Midler.
StabbyStabStabStabStab
Member
I don't think its better than the original mind you, however I do think its a great version