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Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
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Cover versions better than the originals on 15:00 - May 2 with 1865 views
Cover versions better than the originals on 21:23 - May 1 by leighton1318
Yup, always thought that was better than the original but at the other end of the spectrum, this is my favourite version and is in fact my all time favourite cover as it happens.
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Cover versions better than the originals on 15:10 - May 2 with 1861 views
Fieryjack being a Dylan fan you’ve probably heard this before but for those that haven’t and may enjoy it all the loose threads are pulled together and woven into something fine...
An idea isn't responsible for those who believe in it.
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Cover versions better than the originals on 16:48 - May 2 with 1769 views
Cover versions better than the originals on 21:29 - May 1 by FieryJack
Utterly destroys the original - and all the other versions.
Immaculate.
I bought a CD of Cohen covers but, as far as I was concerned, none came close to the originals.
Hallelujah just strikes me as too personal a song to cover. Someone else singing it is akin to them faking an orgasm. This isn't your song. These aren't your feelings.
Having said all that, my argument is completely undone by Cash's version of "Hurt".
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Cover versions better than the originals on 17:25 - May 2 with 1739 views
Cover versions better than the originals on 17:20 - May 2 by squarebear
I bought a CD of Cohen covers but, as far as I was concerned, none came close to the originals.
Hallelujah just strikes me as too personal a song to cover. Someone else singing it is akin to them faking an orgasm. This isn't your song. These aren't your feelings.
Having said all that, my argument is completely undone by Cash's version of "Hurt".
I’d thought I was the only person who never believed Jeff Buckley’s version of Hallelujah to be as good as Cohen’s. I’m gratified that I’m not...
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Cover versions better than the originals on 17:26 - May 2 with 1737 views
Cover versions better than the originals on 18:00 - May 2 by FieryJack
Some good stuff on here!
Including some typically (and pleasingly) obscure and left-field stuff from Loh
Johnny Cash's version of Hurt has had a few mentions, but I remember being gob-smacked by this when I first heard it.
The first comment underneath it says it all: If Johnny Cash covers one of your songs, it's no longer yours
That one is a bit too "spoken word". It's almost Shatneresque.
Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
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Cover versions better than the originals on 19:19 - May 2 with 1628 views
I want to thank Dr Winston for starting this thread because there is a cover I had on a cassette tape that a friend gave me in the 90s which got lost when we moved in 2004 and this thread has inspired me to spend some time tracking it down this afternoon. I always knew it was from a film but I never knew which one until about an hour ago and I couldn't remember who sang it but I'm glad I've found it at last. I've just watched the video and it's from a film about the Vietnam war and the coincidence is that the first time I heard the song was while I was watching a news item during the Balkan war when it was at it's most intense and the feelings I had from a combination of the song and what I was seeing on TV at that time was one of those moments I wont forget.
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Cover versions better than the originals on 20:09 - May 2 with 1587 views
Please don’t bother replying to this because I’m a bit pissed and I’ll probably end up banning someone and regret it I’m the morning but Fats Domino likes this so much that he gave them the original gold disc for it,as there was four of them they had a game of cards for it and Rick Nielsen won.
The first ever recipient of a Planet Swans Lifetime Achievement Award.
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