Covers that Overshadow the Original Song | PART THREE!
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- link to the Hallelujah vid: • The Story of Hallelujah
Cowritten by: Brin DeRouen
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In today's video, we're finishing the trilogy of musical covers that are better/more popular/more emotional/etc than their original counterpart. From Twist and Shout to Heart, John Mayer vs Tom Petty, Life being a Highway, Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah's, Proud Mary, Mad World, and more! Enjoy and comment down below with your fav example.
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I’m 24 and I wasn’t even aware there was a cover of Free Fallin’ the Petty version is the only version I’d heard until today.
I don't get his criticism of Petty's version. What makes him think the "good girl" is secretly evil?
I'm 59 and have never heard Mayor's version. Had to check it out. It's not better.
John Farnham and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra "Help" by the Beatles, and it's waaaay better.
Kasey Chambers, live, Newcastle version, "Lose Yourself" by Eminem and it's not even close. It's her song now. Stay with it, all 8 minutes.
John Farnham, Jimmy Barnes and Diesel, on the Hey Hey It's Saturday show doing "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby", originally by many various artists.
Neil Young, "All Along The Watchtower" with Booker T and the MG's, but ONLY the 10.54 minute version Not sure if it's better, but it's a different and terrific version.
Vanessa Amarosi, Dave Stewart, "Natural Woman", originally a Carole King song.
yeah I quit listening after he flubbed the Tom Petty version. Petty is much much better.
Went and listened to Mayer's version, and couldn't finish it. That voice is horrible.
I think both versions of Mad World are complimentary. The original is a panic attack, not wanting to be a part of the monotony, and crying out while actively fighting it. The cover is resigned to the state of everything, and feels somber and defeated. I think both work back to back really well.
Agreed. Even as a die-hard Tears for Fears fan, I deeply value Jules' reimagining of Mad World, bringing out aspects TfF never acted upon.
I also love Curt Smith and his daughter’s version recorded during the lock down. What was going on in the world really put this piece in yet another perspective.
I should have written this. Very thoughtful analysis!
I also read it as an "I'm laughing because the alternative is crying"
I honestly think the same thing
I’m not a boomer and I didn’t even know John Mayer covered Free Fallin… just know Tom Perry’s original version lol
In re: Hallelujah - everyone must also hear K. D. Lang’s version.
I didn't even know that John Meyer covered it. Me and my dad always knew it as a Tom Petty song
Same here. I was like, "Taylor Swift's ex recorded a cover version of a Tom Petty song? Interesting!" LOL
Same here, and I'm nothing near like a boomer. I've heard of John Meyer's name but I couldn't name a single song of his
That John Meyer cover awakened a core emeory in me. I looked it up and when the chorus hit I just said "Wait... I've actually heard this before. Not sure where, but I do know this version."
@@deementia6796 this has NOTHING to do with Her.
Why even bring it up.
It's like, "Holy shit man, JFK listened to Elvis once" Woooooooww.
Wow. I didn't know Mayer covered either. Relieved to know I'm not the only one. No slight to Mayer--a virtuoso guitarist--but the Petty song is so classic I didn't imagine a cover could do any justice to it.
I actually love both versions of Proud Mary, both are amazing!
no comments on the Ike and Tina Turner version? I actually rank that one higher.
@@petertrudelljrSurely that’s the only definitive version?
I'm surprised you didn't mention there was a go between for Twist and Shout. That was the Isley Brothers. That was the version the Beatles were emulating. That's where they "borrowed" the harmonized "oooh's" from and put it into just about all their early rockers.
Came here to say this
KD Laing's interpretation of Hallelujah is other worldly.
So true! The Meyer version is ok but Lang’s is far better.
yes, kd Lang's, and Alison Crowe's versions are my favourites
While we're talking about Tom Petty covers, the Barnyard movie of all damn things has a fantastic cover of Won't Back Down, and it's pretty powerful within the context of the movie.
I love this series & how you cover the differences between versions! Very well written
Rest in Peace to the icon, the legend, Tina Turner 🫶
Jeff Buckley also sung a cover of bob dylan’s “Mama, You’ve Been on My Mind” which is really stunning. Jeff had such a timeless voice
yeah but absolutely no one thinks jeff’s version is better than dylan’s lol
Everything I hear The Beatles “Twist and Shoot” I think of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”. Always makes me smile.
Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds. Turned a great Dylan number into a rock staple, also inventing a subgenre of music (Jangle Pop) in the process
"Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Bells of Rhymney", covered by the Byrds and originally done by Pete Seeger.
Don't forget Shatner's version.
On second thought, definitely do forget it.
Actually, imho, Dylan's "My Back Pages" was made eminently listenable by The Byrds also.
Check out Melanie's cover of Mr. Tambourine Man. It's heart breaking. Also her cover of Ruby Tuesday is amazing!
here in Canada the Cochrane version of Highway is equally as well-known as the Rascal Flatts version.
I just remembered Limp Bizkit's cover of Behind Blue Eyes, originally by The Who, which I feel like not a lot of people know about
Surely not, the Who’s version is on one of the all time great rock albums whilst Limp Bizkit are everything wrong with that era of music
That might've been the one thing Durst contributed to music history that I absolutely have respect for. As controversial and pretty fairly maligned as Limp Bizkit is, that was a surprisingly solid cover.
Who is Limp Bizkits?
I love cover songs - everything from reinvented mega-hits to experimental versions gone awry. As a result I’ve lived this series you’ve released about reinvented covers more popular than the original. There are some that I’m surprised that didn’t make your first three episodes:
If you start chanting Hooga-Chaka Hooga-Chaka you might be Hooked On a Feeling, and it is the Blue Suede version that covers the B.J. Thomas original in a very different way.
A reggae reimagining of Neil Diamond’s Red Red Wine had UB40 playing on those hot summer 80’s nights.
Barenaked Ladies outdo the original Bruce Cockburn version of Lovers in a Dangerous Time with their fun harmonies and the long bows on the cello really set it apart.
If you had the Friends soundtrack CD in your car in the 90’s you were probably singing along to Hootie and the Blowfish singing I Go Blind. This one stays pretty true to the 54-40 original, but popularity of Hootie and of Friends certainly make this the better known version.
Santana's "Oye Como Va" is one of my favorite covers of all time.
Don't forget that Black Magic Woman (which often segues into Oye Como Va) is also a cover
She's not there, too. Way better than the zombies version imo
Likewise w/"Hold On" (originally done by Ian Thomas (best known 4 "Painted Ladies" & as the younger brother of Dave "Doug McKenzie" Thomas)). However; I prefer Ian's original vs. Santana's cover.
@@Gottenhimfella Right. The original was by Fleetwood Mac in their bluesy pre Buckingham-Nicks days.
Correction: Santana covered Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman"
Big Star's "In The Street" (The theme song from That 70s Show) which was covered by Cheap Trick. They actually did use Big Star's version in the earlier seasons. For me, both versions are great but I'm a big BIG fan of Big Star. Truly underrated band.
As much as I love Cheap Trick, the original is solidly better.
CCR's Proud Mary was No. 2 on the Billboard charts. Ike Turner's version reached No. 4
Tina still made the song hers.
It's weird to hear someone saying Tears for Fears' Mad World is the overshadowed one.
The Clash's cover of 'I fought the law' is a perfect cover, different than the original, could be an original, and a great improvement on the original. The lyrics also fit perfectly for a punk band like The Clash
Dead Kennedys also have a great version, turning it into a song about the murder of Harvey Milk, and the killer getting a lesser charge than murder (I fought the law and I won)
Yeah, I've always associated The Clash music with fighting cops (something even illustrated in their debut album) but I was surprised to realise most of their songs with that theme are covers: Police and Thieves, I Fought the Law, Police on my Back. The only original is Bankrobber.
Reba McEntire's version of Bobbie Gentry's "Fancy" is probably the best known, but the Geraldine Fibbers do an amazing version with wild fiddle that really leans into the creepiness of it.
I love this series! Some of the covers I think are the defining version are Jose Gonzalez’s version of “Heartbeats” by The Knife, and Eva Cassidy/Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s cover of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”, and Rage Against The Machine did a fantastic album of covers on Renegades, the pick of them being their version of “The Ghost Of Tom Joad” by The Boss
This may be a niche pull, but the Flaming Lips cover of Can't Get You Outta My Head by Kylie Minogue is a masterpiece.
I love that too
The Beatles - Help vs John Farnham - Help. 'Farnsey' aka 'The Voice' takes this one. One of the greatest voices to ever.
Free Fallin definitely a Tom Petty song I can’t stand the John Mayer version but that may just be cuz I can’t stand John Mayer
as a taylor swift fan i totally agree
I like Tina's Proud Mary okay. However I will forever ADORE CCR's original.
I'm a big fan of covers and enjoy getting some history on these songs, especially ones where the covers are the more well known versions.
Loving these videos and would be very happy to see a part 4!
"Always something there to remind me" by Naked Eyes is one of the best covers ever.
I do like the thing that Tears for Fears' original is Mad World, Jules' cover is Sad World... definitely brings what I like in a cover - doing something different and recontextualising the original
Great content as always.
It’s a crime you haven’t mentioned William Shatner’s cover of Common People.
This is a really niche example but Mitski’s cover of One Direction’s Fireproof completely transforms the song. She sounds restless, like she’s been laying down trying to fall asleep for 2 whole hours but it’s just not happening so she resorts to humming as a last ditch effort. Meanwhile, the 1D boys sound relaxed, like they’re having the chillest afternoon of their life. You don’t really buy when they go “I think I’m gonna lose my mind” but when Mitski sings it you don’t even question it.
A suggestion for part 4: Blinded by the Light, original by Bruce Springsteen, cover by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
This is the best suggestion.
It was YEARS before I learned this was a Bruce Springsteen song.
Manfred Mann's only other hit (As far as I know) was also penned by Springsteen. Spirits in the Night. Great song.
i could listen to hours of this topic
I don’t trust people that think John Mayer’s version of Free Fallin’ is better than Tom Petty’s.
I feel that Petty in the original actually captures what you attribute to Mayer‘s version, which I actually find pretty saccharine.
So many covers of Hallelujah that it emphasizes how much of a powerful poetic force Cohen was with those lyrics! My personal favorite is Damien Rice live who covered it at a Leonard Cohen tribute.
Fleetwood Mac's Black Magic Woman, Santana's cover takes it to a whole new level.
the vid i’ve been waiting for
That The Mamas & the Papas covered their own song reminds me of Springsteen and Because the Night which he wrote for Patti Smith.
I think there is a subtle difference here: some covers are so good that the song has shifted “ownership”, while others are simply nice versions. Hurt, Tainted Love, Hallelujah, Girls just wanna have fun, Nothing compared 2 U, I will always love you, etc. are examples of songs where the identity has more or less shifted away from the original artist.
The Carpenter's version of California Dreamin' is still my favorite...
CCR’s Proud Mary evokes a gently moving steamboat. The cover turns it into a speedboat.
Maybe it's not mainstream famous enough for this list, but when I think of songs like this, the first one to come to mind is the Bauhaus cover of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust.
It was a hit in the UK and had better production. Bowie's version sounds a bit flat now.
Wondering what y'all think of The Bangles amped up rock version of Simon and Garfunkel "Hazy Shade of Winter?" In my view, one of the slickest and coolest covers ever. Love it. Thoughts? Be well.
That whole Less than Zero sdtk was 🔥
I was coming to comment on that. S&G's is perfectly fine, but the ladies just made it totally kick ass! Shredding guitar lick, hard driving drum beat, oh man, it's perfection!
@@13blackcatzzz Agree. TOTALLY!.
Did not know the Bangles version was a cover! Love Gerald Way’s cover of it.
Love these videos
Beatles’ “Words of Love” is a favorite of mine.
I had zero idea Mayer even covered Petty. So this was a new one to me.
Yeah, this seemed like a personal take. I’d never even heard of the awful John Mayer version.
You rock!!
Ike and Tina really covered the Checkmates version of Proud Mary. The Checkmates put out their version in 1969 while Ike and Tina released theirs in 1971. So Ike and Tina's tremendous version was a cover of a cover of the song.
Just like Jeff Buckley covered John Cale's version of Hallelujah.
@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 Dave van Ronk developed a version of an old song, whose origins I know not, "House of the Rising Sun". Bob Dylan covered van Ronk's version and then Eric Burdon and the Animals covered Dylan's version. And turned it into an immortal hit.
@@stevequist8803 Yes, I also know that
Here is one for you.
Original - The Beatles - Help
Cover - John Farnham - Help
PS: You will need to each version of the song on this one and please use Johns Farnhams live version with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
This is one of those Dolly/Whitney ones but raised to the power of 10. Don't skimp on either version, you will be depriving your subs.
The obvious other main cover of a Beatles song, is With a Little Help from My Friends by Joe Cocker, ofc.
The best thing that can happen to a musician is that someone else makes his song a hit. The royalties flow and he doesn't even have to go on tour himself.
I remember hearing All Coming Back To Me Now by Pandora's Box and really liking it and listening to it all the time, but learned that the Celine Dion cover was the more popular one, bc it show up first when I typed in the title. Whenever I hear the cover, it sounds weird hearing her vocals on top of an instrumental I know really well. I think both of them are good, but I like the atmosphere of the original more 🖤💙
Jeff Buckleys cover of Bob Dylan’s mama you’ve been on my mind is incredible, my favourite Buckley song
K.D Lang’s cover is the definitive version give it a listen…..tears
Absolutely! Hallelujah will never be sung better than she does it!
Dolly Parton did a cover of Collective Soul's "Shine". Both version so wonderfully different
Did you ever hear her cover of Stairway to Heaven? I, for one, loved it.
Just went and checked that out, and yeah, pretty great. Thanks!
One of my favorite banda is Disturbed. My son introduced them to me with the song 'Shout' a cover tune originally done by Tears for Fears.
Keep going, I'd like to see a number 4
Oh, 311's cover of Love Song by The Cure. It's really nice.
"Hey Joe".
There are a LOT of covers of it, but while the Jimi cover was great and can claim to be "definitive", the Deep Purple cover was EVEN BETTER.
Da king is back baby he neva miss
A few exemples on the top of my head
Fleetwood Mac-Black Magic Woman covered by Santana
Randy Newman-You can leave your hat on covered by Joe Cocker
Tom Petty original is extremely popular. It may have less views here but it’s the only version heard out in the world. I’m a JM fan and didn’t know about his cover. Also you skipped the Isley Brothers hit version of Twist and shout.
Suggestion: 2 Beatles songs completely taken by other artists: A Little Help From my Friends by Joe Cocker & Got to Get You Into My Life by Earth Wind & Fire (arguably the top)
The algorithm just gifted me your channel and im so happy. Id love to see you talk about the Alien Ant Farm version of Smooth Criminal
Love this series! Though I'd also be curious to see a list of well known remixes that are more popular than their original songs?
For UK millennials, The Tide is High = Atomic Kitten. I didn't even know it was a cover!
I know Celine Dion's cover was the biggest seller, but for me, Laura Branigans version of The Power of Love is the definitive! She is raw, earthy, and powerful. Someone else in the comments mentioned The Bangles Hazy Shade of Winter which absolutely kicks a$s!! And I suggest to everyone to check out Melanie's covers of Mr. Tambourine Man (heartbreaking) and Ruby Tuesday (sublime).
Original Hazy Shade of Winter is pretty awesome -- but yeah, I have a preference for the Bangles' version.
I never knew Laura Branigan other than Gloria and Self-control!
There’s Falling In Reverse’s version of Last Resort to consider- it’s astounding
The first time I heard Alone was when John Stamos sang it. Today I learned! I loved the show Dreams and would watch it religiously when I was a kid 😍
was really hoping for a Jose Feliciano shoutout when you mentioned California Dreamin cause his cover of the song is honestly incredible
Young Man Blues -The Who explode Mose Allison
Jumpin' Jack Flash - Peter Frampton outrolls the Stones
2000 Man - Ace Frehley on lead vocal in the Kiss cover
Subterranean Homesick Blues -Red Hot Chili Peppers do Dylan
I Can't Make You Love Me -George Michael's cover of Bonnie Raitt drips with a level of pathos not seen or heard since Michael Crawford defined Andrew Lloyd Weber's Phantom.
Tears of a Clown -The English Beat gets Smokey with it.
Hung on You -The Romantics do the Kinks better
You could do a whole episode just on the songs that Van Halen has covered. My nominee would be You're No Good, for the male/female difference between David Lee Roth and Linda Ronstadt.
Congrats, Alfo Media. You opened a whole case of worm cans.
If y'all do decide to continue this series, I think that Vanilla Fudge's cover of You Keep Me Hangin' On by The Supremes is an absolutely amazing psychedelic rock masterpiece.
One idea I'd like to suggest is "horror(?) stories in music" which you bringing up the mamas and the papas made me think about
Thanks for the awesome content! Have you talked about the 8000 different versions of "Heard it Through the Grapevine" yet? Motown recycled the hell out of that song with Gladys, Smoky, Marvin, and I'm sure I'm forgetting others. Even CCR got a hold of that one.
Fogerty's guitar on CCR's version is 👌🏻
Another Motown is "Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)". Eddie Holland recorded it first, and got bypassed by Kim Weston, The Isley Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, etc.
And while I wouldn't call it supassing/bypassing the original, there's a song with two covers on equal footing with the original. "Please, Mr. Postman": first by the Marvellettes, then the Beatles, and then the Carpenters.
Gladys and the Pips also cover two songs: "Everybody need Love", originally by Mary Wells, and "Midnight Train to Georgia", originally "Midnight Plane to Houston," Jim Weatherly.
YES, MAD WORLD GOT IN, YEEEAAAAHHHH!!!
i can die happy :)
Cake's cover of war pigs is amazing, the initial driving base line makes you feel the urgency of war like there is a ticking time bomb. when the brass comes in it feels like a a funeral trumpet for a fallen soldier. some may say it doesn't surpass black sabbath but I listen to this cover more than the original.
Dude, you gotta talk 'bout "You Really Got Me"
I think Chris Stapleton, George Jones, and the OG David Allen Coe with Tennessee Whiskey is a crazy cover story example, especially the weight Jones had back then and how popular Stapleton’s version made it. Definitely justifying DAC’s You Never Even Called Me By Your Name
Please make more from this theme - Please Please
In a similar situation to the Mamas and The Papas with California Dreamin, Dancing in the Moonlight was written by Sherman Kelly and performed with the band Boffalango in 1970, later on Kelly would join the band King Harvest and help create the iconic and famous cover we know today in 1972. If you go even further down the rabbit hole, a small band by the name of High Broom created the first official cover of Dancing in the Moonlight based on the Boffalango version in 1970 before the 1972 King Harvest rendition.
White rabbit and Somebody to love by Jefferson Airplane are also examples of the same kind of thing.
The Ramones's cover of Needles and Pins vs the Searchers's original version would be cool to have next video if there is one
It didn't overshadow the original though. The Searchers version remains the definitive one and is still the one most commonly played.
I wanted to shout two from Australia that are pretty decent examples, or at least from my perspective.
Fall At Your Feet, originally by Crowded House was covered by Australian indie rock band Boy & Bear to the point I feel like I know it almost more as a song by Boy & Bear rather than Crowded House. While both charted about the same here in Australia, 31 the peak for the original and 34 for the cover, the cover also came 5th in the Hottest 100, Triple J's annual vote for the best songs of the year, which unfortunately wasn't doing a yearly countdown in 91 when the original came out so IDK if it's easy to judge that.
On the topic of Triple J, Baby Come Back by Player is a track which I think a whole generation of people in Australia think is a song straight up by the Aussie psych rock group Ocean Alley. I genuinely didn't realise that they did this song as a Like a Version cover and it wasn't their own song at all. The original is still good, with that kind of 70s ballad rock like a song like The Pina Colada Song, but god damn does Ocean Alley's cover just update and give it a fuller life.
MOAR...please
Check out the original of Carlos Santana's Black Magic Woman done by it's writer Pete Green when he was with Fleetwood Mac in it's preStevie blues phase.
If one is going to do a cover, they better take that song and **own it** Carlos does just that with this blusey classic.
Funny thing, I only found Jeff Buckley's version of "Hallelujah", because it was featured on the House MD soundtrack. By that time I was already familiar with three diffrent versions by Cohen. I still like all of them. I would even go as war and say that I love all renditions of Hallelujah I ever come across. It's a really powerfull song and I've yet to come along one of it's many many many cover versions that do it dirty.
I love how many versions there are of that wonderful song. As I recall, Cohen just kept writing verses for the song over the years. I've heard there was something like 90 verses, and Cohen could do a completely different version every time he sang it.
YEAH keep going
Part 4 please😊 with Everybody's gotta learn some time by the Korgis and Beck
For more prolific singer/song writers. you could easily do a video, if not a video series about people covering their songs.
There are so many covers of Bob Dylan songs and practically all of them are superior to the original. This could be an entire video series. There's just that many people who covered his songs.
Elvis did a lot of covers but there's also a fair number of covers for his songs. There's enough for at least a video or two with that.
Of course, there's also a lot of one offs out there, enough for you to keep making these kinds of videos for a while.
"Boomers stay mad I guess"? I'm just at the Cusp between X and Millenial, a big second Mayer remake fan (the bluesy not the country one) and was around for the Petty original release and the MTV video and I'm here to say , " Son , just don't"
Tbh the Lee Moses cover of California Dreamin’ is my personal favorite that I’ve heard.
The Beach Boys also did a cover of "California Dreamin'" which is very good. Maybe another one you can look at is the two different versions of "Misty" - the slower version by Johnny Mathias and the one by Ray Stevens (which won a Grammy Award).
Don't know if it's been covered already but the absolutely amazing baker street by Gerry Rafferty and the foo fighters cover are both good
The horse may be old, but its certainly not dead! I really like your take on these and i'd love to see other stuff from you, but Please do continue with "the covers.." As an old guy its become kind of a challenge to see if I can remember both the original and the cover. One of my favorites has got to be "The sound of Silence"!
I think Milow's Ayo Technology is a good example of a cover that overshadows the original.
Kinda crazy that apparently John Mayers free falling is the more well known one when I had no idea he ever covered it
I see Jeff Buckley i click
There is also an acapella version of hallelujah by the pantellics, and if you get to the credits of San Andreas the Rock's version you will hear Adele 's version of California dreaming
I was surprised to discover "Time Is on My Side" by the Rolling Stones was a cover of the song by Danish trombonist (!) Kai Winding, performing with a vocal group.