Battle of the covers

[sambãd5]

ok, my opinion on covers are :
legendary band preforming live = good
legendary band = good, so long as they dont slaughter it
any old band = good soley if they do it awesome.

so heres what we can do. name a song, by the original artist, and who covered it and vote, and first to 5 votes gets it. provide a reason, and the person who has the best reason gets to choose the next song.


so up first is.....


bob dylan vs jimmy hendrix : all along the watch tower.

reason: the 70's anti war guitaring is legendary, plus one of my favorite lines sounds so much better by mr hendrix, "No reason to get excited!"

 

[Ripper]

No contest.

Dylans was a meh ballad, boring... although the first time I heard it was 5 minutes ago so I could compare.

Hendrix's version was just awesomeness personified in the sound of a guitar... the best bit is right at the end where he goes "and the wind began to howl" before going out with a bang with the thundering guitar closing.

 

[QKXV]

Got to be Hendrix's version

 

[SaintsFan_Webby]

Hendrix. Because he plays the guitar left handed ffs! Being a lefty myself, and having made several failed attempts to play anything resembling music, I can confirm it isn't easy.

 

[Bullitt]

:huh:
All you have to do is restring the Guitar in reverse if your cack-handed.

 

[wigan_rlfc]

Dylan's has a faster tune and he wrote it but I prefer Hendrix's version.

 

[Ripper]

Cleansweep to da Hendrix 5-0.

Since I'm the first here, I say mines the best... because I'm orsome like David Tua.

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Rockin' in the Free World - Neil Young vs Rockin' in the Free World -Pearl Jam.

Pearl Jam's version can be heard on aroubd 50% of their bootlegs from what I can tell... I have 7 different versions of it live... and each one is awesome...

While I like the Neil Young version, Eddie Vessar does it better and Pearl Jam as a whole do it better.

 

[THE CHIROPRACTOR101]

my version is the best!.... I AM MUSIC...

 

[sambãd5]

pearl jams. great song to do as a encore.

 

[neck]

Pearl Jam's- They rock

 

[Ripper]

3 - 0 will do.

Time to pick something the rest of the forum will know.

Queen vs Backdoor Boys - We will rock you.

 

[sambãd5]

hahaha five - what a joke. i have never seen a song killed so badly before, i can harderly bring myself to listen to the original anymore.

queen all the way.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

Yes, well Queen. Five are hardly going to be remembered!

 

[neck]

who the hell are 5?
queen all the way

 

[neck]

i now this is a double post but this thread has seemed to die so hears another one ......which is better

David Bowie - the man who sold the world
or
Nirvana's cover of the song on live and unplugged in new york???

 

[Ripper]

Never really liked Bowie, and I enjoyed the one on Nirvana Unplugged

 

[neck]

yeah the nirvana version rocks

 

[C A Iversen]

David Bowie's version is still cool though, I'm gonna go with it. I'm not knocking Nirvana's version, but lets face it, their both good.

 

[neck]

yeah they are both good, it's a good song

 

[SaintsFan_Webby]

Bowie all the way for me.