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Original songs and the best cover versions

Al Green's How can you mend a broken heart > Bee Gees
George Benson's On Broadway > The Drifters
The Fugees' Killing me Softly > Roberta Flack

and obviously

Jimi Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower > Bob Dylan
 
Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah > Leonard Cohen's (and that abysmal XFactor one).
 
Al Green's How can you mend a broken heart > Bee Gees
George Benson's On Broadway > The Drifters
The Fugees' Killing me Softly > Roberta Flack

and obviously

Jimi Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower > Bob Dylan

How to murder a great song , let T he Fugees rerecord it .:smile:
 
Talking of Pixies, I adore their Spanish language cover of The Yardbirds 'Evil Hearted You'...

[video=youtube;lOKVTsC4XsQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOKVTsC4XsQ[/video]
 
Galaxie 500's cover of Yoko Ono's 'Listen the Snow is Falling' is utterly wonderful, which is a little surprising considering how bad the original is...

[video=youtube;qX-o3rN99pI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX-o3rN99pI[/video]
 
Talking of Pixies, I adore their Spanish language cover of The Yardbirds 'Evil Hearted You'...

There are a few good covers on that LP. This being my favourite...

[video=youtube;mWWjMgzhbu4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWWjMgzhbu4[/video]
 
There are a few good covers on that LP. This being my favourite...

[video=youtube;mWWjMgzhbu4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWWjMgzhbu4[/video]
Completely forgot about that one - bloody brilliant. As is the original though - I'd call that one a draw.
 
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