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McSame_as_Bush
10/19/25 5:26:42 PM
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https://youtu.be/b6UazdAlqhs?si=8wCFs39ZckWJrOBW

https://youtu.be/J2l3FY6K2IE?si=UqDRTALT-pshsU4b
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Evening_Dragon
10/19/25 5:28:32 PM
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Ring of Fire is probably the most prominent example.

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archizzy
10/19/25 5:32:49 PM
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With all due respect to the great Otis Redding for writing and singing it everyone knows Aretha Franklin's version of Respect is THE version. There is no better example.

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JaiCSC
10/19/25 5:36:11 PM
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archizzy posted...
With all due respect to the great Otis Redding for writing and singing it everyone knows Aretha Franklin's version of Respect is THE version. There is no better example.


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JaiCSC
10/19/25 5:39:28 PM
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One that's debatable but I know Placebo's Running Up That Hill has a sizeable popularity.

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TomClark
10/19/25 5:40:52 PM
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I came to say Birdie's Skinny Love and Slow Moving Millie's Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want.

But, yeah, we're not getting a better answer than Respect.

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archizzy
10/19/25 5:41:17 PM
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And to add another one that I personally wouldn't choose but I know would be a popular choice would be Tina Turner and Proud Mary. I'm a huge CCR fan and prefer the original but again I know many would opt for Tina. She certainly brought a lot of energy into it and it is a good cover.

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Giacomo_Hawkins
10/19/25 5:41:51 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ZJ3xhbijo

Not as good as Disturbed, but better than the original.

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sabin017
10/19/25 5:41:54 PM
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Jontron's Firework is way better than KP's

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TomClark
10/19/25 5:43:15 PM
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It's a live performance rather than an official studio track, but this is fucking exceptional IMO.

https://youtu.be/-2VnV6uS-gw?si=UMLooX9bhV3jYq8s

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Hexenherz
10/19/25 5:45:27 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6zGO5dYJNY&list=RDL6zGO5dYJNY&start_radio=1

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DragulaRULEZ
10/19/25 5:45:32 PM
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Does The Cardigans covering "Burning Down The House" count? Tom Jones is heavily featured.

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Evening_Dragon
10/19/25 5:46:28 PM
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archizzy posted...
With all due respect to the great Otis Redding for writing and singing it everyone knows Aretha Franklin's version of Respect is THE version. There is no better example.
I sit corrected.

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vycebrand2
10/19/25 5:47:03 PM
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Me and Bobby McGee.
Roger Miller
Janis Joplin

My friend use to sing it all the time. I heard the Janis version at one point. I said to him I know that song. Janis Joplin right? He goes Roger Miller. That was his kind of music and Janis while around I assumed it was that

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archizzy
10/19/25 5:48:36 PM
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I'll throw a personal favorite in and actually link something this time too. As someone who has admitted to being stuck in the past and doesn't listen to much modern music past the year 2000 I came across this group Postmodern Jukebox that does really really cool covers on songs where they seem to turn back the clock. They have tons of different people sing with them and they had Haley Reinhart do a cover of Creep by Radiohead.

The really amazing part of this to me is she was on tour and travelling and her voice was worn out and she was tired and she came in on like zero rest and wasn't even sure her voice would work and ended up doing this on the very first take, no cuts, no breaks. Just belted it out. I think it is pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3lF2qEA2cw

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DragulaRULEZ
10/19/25 5:48:36 PM
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I love Tommy James & The Shondells, Tiffany's "I Think We`re Alone Now" is probably better.

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mercurydude
10/19/25 5:49:30 PM
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Concrete Blonde - Tomorrow Wendy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc1na692wUU

This was the original, which Johnette Napolitano also sang on but not as the main vocalist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZBQGCI2hm0


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DragulaRULEZ
10/19/25 5:52:54 PM
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mercurydude posted...
Johnette Napolitano
Any relation to Janet Napolitano?

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ai123
10/19/25 5:53:10 PM
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Victoria Williams covering Neil Young's Don't Let it Bring You Down

https://youtu.be/zdNgwloIk6s

Melanie Safka's version of Dylan's Lay Lady Lay

https://youtu.be/EFBaR6cZQWU

Yeah. You heard me.


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CrimsonWaffle
10/19/25 5:53:34 PM
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https://youtu.be/uQWk7l8Su2U?si=SQX7s1ipzmP4T7Oe

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Southernfatman
10/19/25 5:53:53 PM
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Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust. Original - Joan Baez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIC7KQPDuDc

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MarshMellow
10/19/25 5:57:58 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8gVmD39AmI
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JaiCSC
10/19/25 6:01:51 PM
#25:


TomClark posted...
I came to say Birdie's Skinny Love

I'm probably the outlier here as I know how popular this cover is.

And I want to stress this. I really think music is by far the most subjective artistic medium as it hits people so differently, so all power to you if you enjoy listening to this and consider me the old man yelling at cloud here.

But I HATE this version, with a passion. Birdy has a lovely voice but this is so dry and soulless to me. Cristin Milioti did a great cover of Skinny Love which I like but that's still singing Bon Iver's. Not really her own take.

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DragulaRULEZ
10/19/25 6:03:09 PM
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Tarja Turunen has covered some songs. I like her a lot.

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DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC
10/19/25 6:06:59 PM
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I prefer The Sundays version of "Wild Horses" to the Stones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7GE90n6XX8

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ai123
10/19/25 6:07:26 PM
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Sandie Shaw doing The Smiths' Hand in Glove

https://youtu.be/Idg8hsFo2K4

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mercurydude
10/19/25 6:15:08 PM
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I like Robert Plant's version too, but Allison Krauss's voice is like buttah.

Allison + Viktor Krauss - Big Log
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uqj7GxNtyzo

DragulaRULEZ posted...
Any relation to Janet Napolitano?

No clue! I can't find anything on it if there is.

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SMAP-
10/19/25 6:17:47 PM
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MarshMellow posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8gVmD39AmI

same gender, and also not better

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ai123
10/19/25 6:21:11 PM
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The original is one of the greatest songs ever written. But I do love female vocals, so . . .

Hammock cover Catherine Wheel's Black Metallic

https://youtu.be/3pl--RhnLsw

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joaquintall
10/19/25 6:21:47 PM
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Sheryl Crow - Mississippi... although I think her version came out before Bob Dylan's.

Arguable, but I love Fiona Apple's version of Across the Universe.

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MarshMellow
10/19/25 6:24:15 PM
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SMAP- posted...
same gender, and also not better

Not really. One is more pop and the other is more industrial metal.
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MarshMellow
10/19/25 6:27:15 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWTaaS7LdU
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KJ_StErOiDs
10/19/25 6:29:29 PM
#36:


"You Got It"

Original by Roy Orbison (1988):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYQzIw0zat0

Cover by Bonny Raitt (1995):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkzvOcSHqGM


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ai123
10/19/25 6:29:41 PM
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MarshMellow posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWTaaS7LdU
It's supposed to be artists of a different gender than the original.

Let me help.

https://youtu.be/Wpf_L81H2wQ

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MarshMellow
10/19/25 6:38:26 PM
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ai123 posted...
It's supposed to be artists of a different gender than the original.

Let me help.

https://youtu.be/Wpf_L81H2wQ

Oh snap I read it as genre. I need new glasses for real.
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Tyranthraxus
10/19/25 6:39:22 PM
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It's impossible to have a topic about this and not mention the big three

Tainted Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgyqZlFHokQ

I Love Rock and Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4cFIzr85cU

I Think We're Alone Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHvaD1rkIXU

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boxoto
10/19/25 6:39:31 PM
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MarshMellow posted...
Not really. One is more pop and the other is more industrial metal.
they're talking about the (presumed) genders of the singers not the genres of music

edit: my apologies, you already addressed that with a previous post

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DoctriceDarkEX
10/19/25 6:40:40 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnhOv2PC68w&list=RDHnhOv2PC68w&start_radio=1

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ai123
10/19/25 6:43:24 PM
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MarshMellow posted...
Oh snap I read it as genre. I need new glasses for real.
That would make an interesting thread too.

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Tanthalas
10/19/25 6:48:33 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6zGO5dYJNY&list=RDL6zGO5dYJNY&start_radio=1
Not even close to being better than the original.

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darkace77450
10/19/25 7:05:37 PM
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I don't know that it's better than the original, but I'm partial to Six Pence None the Richer's rendition of Don't Dream It's Over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUHKDHkRasc
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Freddie_Mercury
10/19/25 7:24:03 PM
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https://youtu.be/hUmw2iYgFbs?si=3edCJpF-_WsI46AQ

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action52
10/19/25 7:37:50 PM
#48:


darkace77450 posted...
I don't know that it's better than the original, but I'm partial to Six Pence None the Richer's rendition of Don't Dream It's Over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUHKDHkRasc
This is very good, but I legitimately like the version by Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande even better than this one (and better than the original).

https://youtu.be/-JImTh68Ri4?si=k7OK9VJLgjGrNmJg

And for Sixpence None the Richer gender swapped covers, my favorite is There She Goes. Not quite as good as the original but I'll post it here anyway cause it's fantastic.

https://youtu.be/68MKLkNSMN4?si=U4gzrIMTNLMJT2Vw

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Evening_Dragon
10/19/25 7:51:53 PM
#49:


Actually, there are two tracks I only like the cover version of. The latter isn't a gender adjustment, or a straight cover, but the spirit is there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9PVGYf_haE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spi6yOS6zy4

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mercurydude
10/19/25 7:58:26 PM
#50:


Klaus Nomi - You Don't Own Me ( )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVF-wlzBJec


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CrimsonWaffle
10/19/25 8:49:31 PM
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https://youtu.be/qKV9bK-CBXo?si=Qn5HR-gEKYo2V_1A

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