NWR Cover songs that are better than the original

Has anyone mentioned Hounds of Love by The Futureheads (Live)? I don't actually think it's better than the original, but I do think it's good fun.

I did covers of "These Boots Are Made For Walking", which sounded a bit like Bauhaus (pretty pleased with it as an idea), and Rema Rema's "Rema Rema", which we latterly did as an encore. Sadly (for me) neither were ever recorded, studio or live.
 
With the amps turned up to 11 I am currently really liking this preposterous reading of the Bob Dylan/Band Basement Tapes standard by ill-fated Carlisle heavy rockers Spooky Tooth

 
Paul Anderson said:
I'm afraid the Covid travel restrictions forbid me from coming to listen to it in your car ;)
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You really don’t want to be in Dan B’s car Paul. There’ll be no weird casual sex, nor unconventional drug taking. I’ll bet he won’t even be speeding, let alone going the wrong way down the motorway......

Dan V’s car may be more promising. He may even be the subject of Mr Hitchcock’s songsmithing!
 
Mark Palmer said:
You really don’t want to be in Dan B’s car Paul. There’ll be no weird casual sex, nor unconventional drug taking. I’ll bet he won’t even be speeding, let alone going the wrong way down the motorway......

Dan V’s car may be more promising. He may even be the subject of Mr Hitchcock’s songsmithing!
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Having received 3 letters from the camera processing dept of the met police in the last week, I may not be going the right way down the motorway either for a while!
 
Mark Palmer said:
You really don’t want to be in Dan B’s car Paul. There’ll be no weird casual sex, nor unconventional drug taking. I’ll bet he won’t even be speeding, let alone going the wrong way down the motorway......

Dan V’s car may be more promising. He may even be the subject of Mr Hitchcock’s songsmithing!
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That reminds me of another brilliant cover I have buried away in a cupboard - The Damned doing Tubeway Army's "Cars". Not for the faint-hearted.
 
A lot of the time a cover isn't "better" but then you are glad it exists...as with Bauhaus' Telegram Sam, which came up on my iPod (yes, old school) yesterday.

Other times a band you love does one that's slightly disappointing, even though they did it as a tribute...thinking of King Crimson's version of Heroes. Fripp's guitar is a perfect mirror of, er, Fripp's guitar but the vocal doesn't pass muster. But Live in Chicago is a good album all the same.
 
David Crossley said:
On the subject of Bowie, I can't recall whether I proposed his version of Amsterdam. It only challenges the original in that it changes the words in a few places to give it more of a dockside edge, and in his delivery he sounds even more louche than Brel or Walker, an achievement even for him.
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But the live version by Brel always makes the hairs stand on end:
 
David Crossley said:
A lot of the time a cover isn't "better" but then you are glad it exists...as with Bauhaus' Telegram Sam, which came up on my iPod (yes, old school) yesterday.

Other times a band you love does one that's slightly disappointing, even though they did it as a tribute...thinking of King Crimson's version of Heroes. Fripp's guitar is a perfect mirror of, er, Fripp's guitar but the vocal doesn't pass muster. But Live in Chicago is a good album all the same.
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I recently happened across Fripp and Mrs Fripp performing Enter Sandman on Youtube - quite, quite something. I think the word which came most readily to mind was "unrestrained" :)
 
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