Depends how good the original was, and also what your tastes are. For example, Chuck Berry did Johnny B Goode, and Judas Priest did a cover. I prefer the Priest version, because they suit my taste more. But some are rubbish. Run DMC spoiled Walk This Way. Idiots

Listen to such masterpieces as:

All along the watchtower - by Hendrix (original by Dylan). This has got to be the BEST cover ever.

Whiskey in the Jar - by Metallica (originally a folk song i believe, but made famous by Thin Lizzy) - another one which FAR outstrips the original in terms of greatness . Actually Metallica do a dam good cover of Queens "Stone cold crazy" too

Cover tunes are a great way og getting out of teh tedium of playing original music at a gig or on an alblm...

a great cover was Blue Monday (originally by BOC) covered by Orgy, Sweet Dreams (Originally made by Eurythmics) covered by Marylin Manson, Walking in My Shoes (originally made by Depeche Mode) covered by Finger Eleven and Turn The Page (Bob seger) covered by Metallica

those are just but a few GREAT covers....a terrible one was the song that at the time he was known as Puff Daddy now known as P-Diddy (how funny right ) when he redid that sting song....it was pretty bad same as the remake of Prince's song Nicky or whatever and so terribly remade by foo fighters YUCK!

"To live is to die....but living is to die slowly..why waste time on trivial things just play as hard as you can"

I mostly hate cover versions, but usually I find that the better the musician the more likely they are to pull off a cracking cover version. For example, imho Joe Cocker's "With a little help from my friends" was far superior to the beatles original...as was Hendrix' "All along the Watchtower" and Eric Clapton's "Before you accuse me". The secret of a great cover version is taking a song that is extremely good in the first place and then stamping your style onto it with precision and skill.

That is exactly why boy bands will always ruin cover versions - they take a song that is great anyway, and then with no style of their own to stamp on it, they re-record it exactly as it was originally made, but this time with flimsy white shirts, rock-hard abs and stools to sit on. No musical talent involved.

Covers CAN be better...but if done sloppily, they can ruin great music.

10,000 Maniacs did a crackin cover of Everyday is Like Sunday.

I don't object to covers if at least some effort is made to make it sound different and inject some of your own originality into it. However boy bands and the pop idol chumps just destroy classic songs by making them non-descript, bland, and sounding like they'd been churned out on a production line (which they have)

anything that involves Will or Gareth is by definition anathema.

Ryan Adams does a far better cover of Oasis' Wonderwall.


"I've seen things you people wouldnt believe.
Attacked ships on fire off the shoulder of orion. Ive seen C-Beams glitter in the darkness at tannhauser gate.
All those moments, will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
Time, to die."

who did the club-singer style version of Wonderwall? (wasn't Vic & Bob - incidentally listen to Vienna sometime)

That'll be Mike Flowers Pop I believe

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Ryan Adams does a far better cover of Oasis' Wonderwall

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Yeah, but who doesn't!