Gotta love it when a cover is better than the original.

[minkage]

Ugh im so fed up with Lindsay Sterling.

She rode this big wave of geek fandom from her zelda covers dressed up in full link garb but honestly shes really not that great and that imagine dragons cover is freaking awful.

[Zelk]

Original

GOAT cover

[Mirishka]

Not necessarily better, but one of the better covers that comes to mind is Death's cover of Judas Priest's Painkiller. Different take on the song, can't really improve what is already a perfect song tbh.

One of the best metal albums ever IMO.

[dwightyo39]

CCR has done some good covers.

Before You Accuse Me
I Put a Spell On You
Heard it Through The Grapevine

[Wildtree]

CCR has done some good covers.

Before You Accuse Me
I Put a Spell On You
Heard it Through The Grapevine

Definitely.
Speaking of CCR.. check out the Brandos
Most brutally underrated US band of the last 25 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qhQhSXvfMY

[dwightyo39]

Definitely.
Speaking of CCR.. check out the Brandos
Most brutally underrated US band of the last 25 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qhQhSXvfMY

Cool. I'll check it out.

[the game]

Covers are done by lazy and/or uncreative artists and shouldnt even be taken seriously. If you are a professional musician who makes money from your work, you should be performing original material instead of piggybacking off someone else's blood, sweat, and tears. That said, if youre going to listen to a cover of this song, you should at least listen to a parody and not a note for note, word for word copy.

Do rain clouds just follow you around on a daily basis?

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Jonathan Young and Travis Carte; warning - strong language

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Oh yeah, also, all of the covers by this guy: https://www.youtube.com/user/331Erock/videos

[Jtbrig7390]

So listening to radioactive I've decided that the cover that lindsey stirling did with pantatonix is way better than the original by imagine dragons. I always love it when a cover sounds better than the original. I also love when Weird Al's music is better than the original songs he's doing parodies of.

I think that's good but I find the original to be better.

IMO Disturbed's version of Sound of Silence is much better then the original.


Original


Both are amazing tho.

Also Disturbed's version of Land of Confusion is much better then the original and there video doesn't creep me out like the original.



Original

[klogaroth]

This cover of Taurus is pretty good

[eschatological]

I think that's good but I find the original to be better.

IMO Disturbed's version of Sound of Silence is much better then the original.

The problem with Disturbed's version is that it loses the zeitgeist the original had just from being one of the anthems of the anti-Vietnam 60s (even though that's not what it was directly about). It was about an inability to communicate, to love, to listen to each other, and so on.

Disturbed's version is just trying to be edgy and dark. Like someone said earlier, it rings hollow.

[frogger237]

Op the cover sounds terrible, it sounds like hes about to puke a couple times in the beginning.

Here a couple covers I think are better than the original:

[Rabka Uhalla]

Normally I'm not a fan of heavier/metally stuff, but Disturbed's cover of Sound of Silence is WAY better than Simon and Garfunkel's.

[Zelk]

Normally I'm not a fan of heavier/metally stuff, but Disturbed's cover of Sound of Silence is WAY better than Simon and Garfunkel's.

Oh yeah love it when an artist covers a song and manages to remove all artistic merit from it.

[Sunseeker]

Nope. I think the more modern electronic sounds of the original fit the theme of the song better.

[Tryuk]

Normally I'm not a fan of heavier/metally stuff, but Disturbed's cover of Sound of Silence is WAY better than Simon and Garfunkel's.

Eh, decent cover -- still like the original much more though.

Decent Original
~~The non-Handel Hallelujah~~

Godly cover
~~The cover~~

Damn it, was gonna post that :P

Always the first one I think of when talking about covers that were better than the original

[melodramocracy]

[callipygoustp]

I thought Johnny Cash's cover of hurt was better than the original by Nine Inch Nails.

Pretty powerful rendition. The video was/is very potent. I believe even Trent Reznor had only good things to say about it.

With regards to the OP:
Lindsey is ridiculously talented and I do like several of her pieces. However, her cover of Radioactive, imo, doesn't come close to the original.

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Great original


But this one gave me chills when I first heard it