Tainted Love: Great originals that got overshadowed by ok cover versions

[BurtWorm]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UrRxta8doM

This version is by Gloria Jones from 1964.

[cemaphonic]

1. Partially redeemed by the haunting and creepy version by Coil

On the original subject - about a million songs by Dylan and Tom Waits.

[myrna minx]

3. I still have that 12"

I love Coil.

[baldguy]

2. Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-YR8aejyGc

Think about it: the words of the song are - could only be - in the voice of a woman. Why would a virile manly-man from the '50s like Elvis be calling ANYONE a "hound dog"?

[nomorenomore08]

Well, there is that line in "Jailhouse Rock" about "You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see."

Things that make you go hmmm...

[hvn_nbr_2]

15. That line has made me go hmmmm.... nt

[nomorenomore08]

14. dupe

[raccoon]

4. "Anna" by Arthur Alexander. Covered by the Beatles. nt

[kwassa]

5. Burt, I finally agree with you about something.

The original by Gloria Jones is much superior.

Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind" versus the popular Peter, Paul, & Mary version of the song. This treatment happened to several Dylan songs.

the original "Try a Little Tenderness" by Otis Redding vs. the later version by Three Dog Night.

[unpossibles]

6. "Got the Time" by Joe Jackson (covered by Anthrax I believe) nt

[RetroLounge]

7. Superior Version Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w37thYX6aYM&feature=related

RL

[BurtWorm]

8. Red Red Wine, by Neil Diamond

was first covered as a reggae/ska tune by Tony Tribe. UB40 apparently thought Tribe originated the song, so their chartbuster lifts from it rather than the original original.

:crazy:

I like Tribe's version best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovhuKZPNGSU

[nomorenomore08]

9. The Stones' version of "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" unfortunately seems to overshadow

the Temptations' original. I would post a YouTube link, but come on, you all know the song.

Sublime's cover of "We're Only Gonna Die for Our Arrogance," while far from terrible, is almost certainly more well-known to younger folk than the superior Bad Religion version.

Bad Religion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ra5-rAoH0

Sublime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BreWlEESPM

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"

The Clapton cover was pretty good, although not as good as Dylan's.

Guns N' Roses? Meeh.

[Bennyboy]

17. The Gateful Dead killed "Knockin"

Used to send chills up my spine when Jerry would sing that one....But then again, the Dead did Dylan better than anyone ever.....

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. Both are equally terrific and brilliant, but Johnny Cash's "Hurt"

. . . has overshadowed the original Nine Inch Nails version, in part because it seemed so fitting a song for Cash to sing.

I like both versions, though.

[nomorenomore08]

13. Yeah, after hearing the Cash version, I honestly find the NIN version kind of laughable.

I mean, Reznor was what, 30 at most when he recorded that thing? I understand it was probably inspired by his own drug addiction, blah blah blah, but I can't help but see the song as melodramatic and self-pitying.

Cash, on the other hand, had a lifetime of heartache and loss to pour into that song, and it shows.

[Orrex]

19. To Reznor's credit

He has publicly declared that Cash's version is better. I believe that he said something to the effect of "the song is no longer mine."


And he's right, FWIW!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. "Indian Reservation" by Don Fardon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clux1gLimUo


Paul Revere and the Raiders took it and bubble-gummed it up.

[qb]

16. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

1965 by The Righteous Brothers.
1980 by Hall & Oates

Others... I had no idea there were this many
* Joan Baez, live televison performance with Phil Spector on piano.
* Gladys Knight & The Pips, on Silk 'N Soul
* Isaac Hayes, on ...to Be Continued (1971)
* Westlife, on The Love Album (2006)
* Elvis Presley
* Cilla Black (UK #2, 1965; Australia #2, 1965)
* Neil Diamond and Dolly Parton
* Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra
* Dionne Warwick (USA #16, 1969)
* The Human League, on their 1979 debut Reproduction
* Long John Baldry and Kathi MacDonald (USA #89, 1979)
* Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway (USA #71, 1971)
* Hall & Oates, on Voices (USA #12, 1980; US AC #15, 1980; UK #55, 1980)
* Erasure
* The Firm
* The Flying Pickets, on Lost Boys
* Johnny Rivers, on And I Know You Wanna Dance
* Telly Savalas, on his 1973 MCA album Telly
* Brian Wilson (Wilson's version, recorded during the Adult Child era, has never been commercially released)<2>
* Maverick and Goose (the characters in the movie Top Gun, played by Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards)
* Barry Manilow, on The Greatest Songs of the Sixties (2006)
* Legs Diamond, on Fire Power (1978)
* James Last, on Beat in Sweet (1965) Instrumental version.
* Morgan Fisher, on Hybrid Kids
* Paul Shane, on BBC Pebblemill (1995)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You've_Lost_That_Lovin'_Feelin'

[Bennyboy]

18. SPRINGSTEEN; Spirits in the Night, Because the Night, Fire, Blinded By The Light

All of those songs were hits for someone else but Bruce. And his versions were so much better than the others by Mannfred Mann,Patti Smith (okay her version was great) The Pointer Sisters and again Mannfred Mann.

[speedoo]

20. Kris Kristofferson - Me and Bobby McGee

Janis' cover was superb, but Kris did it very well also and nobody ever hears it because of Janis' huge hit.