Showing posts with label cover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cover. Show all posts

10 Cover Songs That May be Better Than the Original

10. I Will Survive
covered by Cake
originally by Gloria Gaynor
Somehow, California alternative rock band, Cake does an interesting cover of the popular disco song. I guess they're both just trying to be optimisitic


9. The Man Who Sold The World
covered by Nirvana
originally by David Bowie
This cover is wonderful, I'm assuming Kurt was such a Bowie fan that he had to cover it during Nirvana's famous Unplugged session. I'm not certain exactly what version of Bowie's is the original since at one point in the 90's he redid it again and made it sound really creepy. I like the folksy undertone of the lyrics and obviously the guitar solo. This may have been biased but I really believe this is one of the best covers out there.


8.Flagpole Sitta
covered by Chiodos
originally by Harvey Danger
I like when the artist doing the cover brings in their own style into the song but still give it a feel of the original. Chiodos covered the song on "Punk Goes Pop", which is full of other interesting covers if you're into punk rock. Originally, Flagpole Sitta was popular somewhere in the late 90's and Weird Al Yankovic actually incorporated the chorus into one of this Polkas.

MGMT - Kids

MGMT made it big last year with Oracular Spectacular. I felt like posting the multitude of interesting covers of their songs.

First off a cover of Kids, done with a ukulele:


Now, a really strange cover that I found originally on Hipster Runoff. The fantastic iPhone cover:

If you're intrigued, there are alot of cool things to find on youtube done with the iPhone.

And thanks to Australian? band The Kooks, a fun guitar cover [plus accents] Enjoy, this is one of my favorites:

The guitar gives it a very earthy feel.