Best Original and Cover

The original:

I’m not a big fan of term ‘best’ but maybe the readers will appreciate this modest contribution. The whole album is really good. Especially the opening track (Omega).


How do mend a broken heart?

The song appeared much later on Trafalgar, but I could not resist showing the young phenoms.

Al Green is the man!
Chas
PS, An apology to the Bee Gees, I was a huge fan of the Brothers in the late 1960s, before that Disco crap, that everyone with a bank account played.

Music is debatable but Barry Cibb and the Bee Gees have by far the the most impressive teeth in this thread. Better check it out to see whether the music bites.

I can recall pictures of my teeth in the old high school yearbooks. I should be the last one to tease anybody.
Chas

Just goes to show that photo post-processing people were quite capable of taking things too far well before Photoshop.

In the off-season I teach Spinning classes. I do a lot of themed classes and great cover songs are a regular go to. Here are a few good ones but I’ve got a huge list of favorites.

Fever Ray: Mercy Street (Peter Gabriel cover)

Hawksley Workman: Love Will Tear Us Apart Again (Joy Division cover)

Jonathan Coulton: Baby Got Back (Sir Mix Alot cover)

Junip: The Ghost of Tom Joad (Springsteen Cover)

Ki:Theory: Stand By Me (Ben E King Cover)

I spend my hours riding my rollers, trainer and DIY rowing machine. Love to grab your playlist or three. Qobuz, Tidal or Spotify would be awesome.

Hey @brett66, all my Spinning Class playlists (there are hundreds, I’ve been a Spinning instructor for 20+ years) are created in Itunes. I don’t make use of any streaming service and most of the music in my Itunes library I have burned lossless from CDs.

I was very much a fan back in those days, too, owning their first greatest hits album (with the yellow cover) on LP and prerecorded RtR tape. No one could sing a song of self-pity like the Bee Gees (or as many). :wink:

(I can’t get no) Satisfaction - Richards and Jagger

Cover by Cat Power
And Devo

Under My Thumb - Rolling Stones
Cover by Social Distortion

Along the same lines as above by @richard.martin
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Cover by Social Distortion

Immigrant Song - Led Zep

Cover by SOAK

Ooh Las Vegas
O: Gram Parsons
C: Cowboy Junkies

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Beatles “ And I love her “
Brad Mehldau “ And I love her “

What a great thread!

The Craberries: Zombie
=> Meiko (on Chesky)

I have the Meiko cd, very good recording.

Ring of Fire

O - Johnny Cash
C - Frank Zappa

Fixing a Hole
Original: Beatles
Cover: Connie Evingson

“Hurt”

Original - Nine Inch Nails
Cover - Johnny Cash

Surprised I forgot this one till now, not much of a fan of Johnny Cash, but this got my attention immediately. Johnny in his twilight years really makes this song powerful, not that the original was a slouch …