We've all come across cover songs that are as good or better than their originals, so why don't we share them?

Suggested format for listing Original band - song - Cover band.

Better than original:
ABBA - Gimme Gimme Gimme - Yngwie Malmsteen
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round - Secret Discovery
ABBA - Summer Night City - Therion.


As good as the original:
A-ha - Take On Me - From My Cold Dead Hands.
Judas Priest - Painkiller - Death.

Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley - Cradle of Filth.

Method Man - Bring the Pain - Mindless Self Indulgence.

New Order - Blue Monday - Orgy.

Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way - Insane Clown Posse.

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Mad World - Gary Jules

Johnny Cash - Hurt (original by Nine Inch Nails)
actually pretty good by both artists

Randy and Ero, who are the originals by?

Bathory - Satan My Master - Dimmu Borgir.


Twisted Sister - Burn In Hell - Dimmu Borgir.
Shagrath's vocals are the only part of the song that is inferior to the original. Luckily once the chorus hits we hear ICS Vortex. Everything else about this song kicks the ass of the original.

Ya, Johnny's cover of, "Hurt," is sweet. Pandora radio has helped me realize Johnny Cash has made some really awesome cover songs. I had no idea he had such an emotional style of singer/songwriter of his own, and it's awesome.

The cover of, "One," is another great example, originally by U2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQIrxhNkiAs


My favorite cover probably is The Grateful Dead's, "Scarlet Begonias," done by Sublime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cg2O4SsHQw