Friday night is... cover versions as good as or better than originals?

[Richard A Thackeray]

Doesn't actually start, till about 02:50
Chuck Berrys
C'est La Vie (You Never Can Tell)


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Ds-FXGGQg

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Doug Kershaws………...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns6vz4Ms5Nk

 

[Venod]

This deserves a place on this thread, if not already on.

 

[craigwend]

 

[Sea of vapours]

Whilst this thread is enjoying resurrection .... This appears not to have been posted yet. The original is by the Violent Femmes and Gnarls Barkley covered it. It's an instance of 'as good as' rather than 'better', perhaps, but both are excellent.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekL7o8BQkZM



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZbeiXZVWbM

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Camera Obscura's wonderful cover of The Blizzard, by Jim Reeves


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEyLj-Gf8Ng

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I'd heard this by Aerosmith, but never actually listened to it before I got it on a Hayseed Dixie CD


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9udowK_x5U

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Dwight, sings Beach Boys, & it works!!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md09xy8ffX8

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjAu3Yyn09A

 

[postman]

View: https://youtu.be/nCrlyX6XbTU



View: https://youtu.be/gA0GcXV2njY


i don't remember putting anything on this post,but here are two from me.

 

[Smokin Joe]

This must be one of the best cover bands going, if not the best -


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCbZ15JpxPg

 

[Kempstonian]

This is different...

 

[Kempstonian]

Another...

 

[Kempstonian]

Clever...

 

[Wobbly John]

As good? Better? Different, anyway:


View: https://youtu.be/_vhxtSZ-unk?t=175