Is it depressing or just plain sad when a cover song can out shine an original?

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it happens (possibly a lot to this band from what I hear – I didn’t really listen to the album, but enough to know I like the below better than the Wavves version).

“So Bored” – Le Man Avec Les Lunettes

“So Bored” – His Clancyness

*pick up the full ep of “So Bored” covers over on We Were Never Being Boring collective

So anyone find a cover and decide it is better than the original? Post in the comments with what you have and let everyone judge you for it!

~Smansmith

p.s. Didn’t Pitchfork give Wavves an 8.1??

Posted by slowcoustic @ 12 December 2009 5 comments

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Dec 13, 2009
1:21 am

#1 Miles :

There are more than a few acoustic covers that stand out for me as being superior to the original recordings, though I have to admit in some cases I wasn’t always a big fan of the originals. Even with those I did like I don’t think it’s sad that another artist can turn a song into something ‘better’, sometimes it’s just a change of sound, electronic to acoustic, or pop to jazz, that really makes the difference.

Here are a few:
Umbrella (Rhianna) – Plain White T’s (duh)
Love Profusion (Madonna) – Regina Spektor
Dancing Queen (Abba) – Whitley (a fantastic slow warp)
Hyperballad (Bjork) – Whitley (superb)
Bitches Ain’t Shit – Ben Folds

Dec 13, 2009
10:52 am

#2 e. :

walk away renée (the left banke) – billy bragg
rebel rebel (david bowie) – rickie lee jones
mrs. robinson (simon & garfunkel) – the lemonheads (:))

Dec 16, 2009
4:53 pm

#3 barker :

heartbeats (the knife) – jose gonzalez

fabulous song in either way!

Dec 18, 2009
7:49 pm

#4 thevandalstookmyhandle :

I think Ryan Adams cover of Oasis’s Wonderwall is, simply stated, beautiful!

Dec 30, 2009
7:38 am

#5 Nele :

well there are a lot covers which I think are better than the original…for example cat powers cover of “wonderwall” or regina spectors “real love” (Beatles), elliott smiths “blackbird” (Beatles), greg laswells “your ghost” (kristin hersch)….and so on ;)