❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

[__Nathan1968]

Day 11 - A song that is a cover but you like the original more

This song gets better (and more powerful) the more it is covered. Here’s hoping it becomes a standard in every performer’s repertoire.

I love Ani, but nobody compares to the original:

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more (you can name or post one cover as reference in addition to your choice).

This is a great cover, but can’t compete with the original.

The Civil Wars - Billie Jean

 

[StacyLeigh]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more (you can name or post one cover as reference in addition to your choice).

People seem to have rallied around this cover, but it will never hit the same as the original.

Luke Combs - Fast Car

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

 

[MrMakersMark]

A song that is a cover, but you like the original more.

I really liked it slowed down. It hit different. But the original just has too much nostalgia and memory attached to it.

Have to love When in Rome's original a bit more. Probably quite a bit more.

 

[sweetlydeviant]

A song that is a cover, but you like the original more.

Although I love Tiffany’s version!

Original:

This hits different!

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more (you can name or post one cover as reference in addition to your choice).

Natalie Imbruglia's version of "Torn" is lovely, but I like the darker version by the original writers who recorded it with their band Ednaswap. Technically it was recorded first by Swedish singer Lis Sørensen as "Brændt" ("Burnt,") but I am going with the idea that the original authors have the original version ("The Prince Principle").

"Torn," Edneswap

 

[Wand3rlust]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more (you can name or post one cover as reference in addition to your choice).

Somewhere only we know - Lily Allen

Used as a John Lewis Xmas Advert

Somewhere only we know - Keane

The original

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more (you can name or post one cover as reference in addition to your choice).

Natalie Imbruglia's version of "Torn" is lovely, but I like the darker version by the original writers who recorded it with their band Ednaswap. Technically it was recorded first by Swedish singer Lis Sørensen as "Brændt" ("Burnt,") but I am going with the idea that the original authors have the original version.

"Torn," Edneswap

Thanks for this. I’ve heard several Post-Natalie covers, but was not aware of this original.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more (you can name or post one cover as reference in addition to your choice).

This is a good cover, doing what a cover should. But it’s not better than Siouxsie’s.

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more (you can name or post one cover as reference in addition to your choice).

Mony Mony Billy Idol​

Tommy James

 

[QuietCanadian]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more (you can name or post one cover as reference in addition to your choice).

People seem to have rallied around this cover, but it will never hit the same as the original.

Luke Combs - Fast Car

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

It's a pretty solid cover, and I'm glad it brought new life to this song, but 100% this. Nothing can hit like Tracy Chapman's version.

 

[Biggalute]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more (you can post one cover as reference).

I love the Pogues and their version, but the original by Ewan McColl (who was also Kirsty McColl's father) is even better, more evocative and moving IMO.
He also wrote First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, but Roberta Flacks version is way better

 

[PearlyDewdrops]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more (you can name or post one cover as reference in addition to your choice).

Gloria Jones - Tainted Love

Most people probably know the Soft Cell or Marilyn Manson version but I love northern soul and the original is a stomper.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more (you can name or post one cover as reference in addition to your choice).

This blew my mind the first time I heard it. It was obviously a cover and so different!!

Comfortably Numb - Scissor Sisters

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more (you can name or post one cover as reference in addition to your choice).

Gloria Jones - Tainted Love

Most people probably know the Soft Cell or Marilyn Manson version but I love northern soul and the original is a stomper.

Soft Cell's Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go is one of my favorite songs ever

 

[curious_slut]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more

In 2004, I didn't entirely know what a scumbag Manson is (I was a teenager, give me a break) but I also didn't know my 80s music well enough to even recognize it was a cover the first few times I heard it. Luckily, I soon recognized the brilliance of the original and that sent me down a Depeche Mode rabbit hole that I quite frankly needed.

Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus

Marilyn Manson's cover, which I'll still admit is good

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more

I could probably do this everyday. How about Lucero covering Jawbreaker’s Kiss The Bottle?

Also there is a 17 page thread.


Thread 'Under Cover Skanks'
https://forum.literotica.com/threads/under-cover-skanks.1559560/

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more.
Tina Turner's "Proud Mary" is iconic. But I'll still take CCR any day.

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more

I could probably do this everyday. How about Lucero covering Jawbreaker’s Kiss The Bottle?

Also there is a 17 page thread.


Thread 'Under Cover Skanks'
https://forum.literotica.com/threads/under-cover-skanks.1559560/

I only learned this was a cover a year or so ago. Both are so fucking awesome.

 

[Wonderer67]

A song that is a cover, but you like the original more.

Although I love Tiffany’s version!

Original:

This hits different!

Goddamsongstuckinmyhead.

Sorry, but not in a good way!

 

[---E---]

So many to choose from, there were a bunch that came to mind where I like both but like the original better. But I already got spanked this week, so had to limit myself! I'm not sure I really liked it the 1st time around - but this is a bit tough around the edges for me.
I'm going with Careless Whisper

 

[MindYaBitness]

Goddamsongstuckinmyhead.

Sorry, but not in a good way!

Me too! I had the cassette tape in the 3rd grade and wore the thing out. Now it's running circles in my head!

 

[UnquietDreams]

“And I can’t get it out of my head…”

Some people you have in your life never go away. They get in your blood and never go away…like malaria, heh. You don’t “get over” them – you make a place for them in your heart, take them along with you, and eventually you don’t notice the weight. This isn’t just romantic, but in every part of your life – friends, parents, a teacher, anyone. And music can connect to that. Feel free to tell stories, I love stories. So…

Day 12: A song for or about the person you cannot get out of your head.

 

[LustfulIntentions2]

Day 11: A song that is a cover, but you like the original more

When I was 15, after I had fully absorbed the brilliance of Dookie, I went out trying to find more Green Day. Fortunately, in those pre- internet days, we had a kick ass Record Den at the mall (ask your parents, kids), and they provided me access to the record this sucker appeared on, which delighted me and burned up my Boomer father.

30 years later, turns out he was very correct, The Who flat out did it better. This revelation brings me no pleasure.