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Covers Better Than The Original

I didn't even know Helmet covered that song. Won't play on my work computer now but am excited to give it a listen in the car on the way home.

It's so good!

RATM doing a cover of Springsteen's Ghost Of Tom Joad:



I had that as a single when I was younger. I honestly didn't know it was a Springsteen song.



Excellent cover. Definitely like it better than the original, which is also quite good and used very effectively in an episode of Homicide.



I'm very excited to check this out.
 
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Blinded by the light, cum on feel the noise, and Here I go again.

These are all songs that give me the most intense feelings/energies possible as a child listening to the radio riding around in the back seat of my parents car.

I at first was surprised that they were covers, but then I was completely baffled when the originals had almost no energy to them.
 
Alice Coopers version of "talk talk". The Sensational Alex Harvey bands version of "Framed". Johnny Winters version of "Hwy 61 revisited ".
The Beatles version of "Kansas city". The Byrds version of "Tambourine man".
The Turtles version of "It ain't me babe".Kathy McDonald's version of "To love sombody". Dave Edmonds version of "I hear you knocking". Los Lobos version of "La Bamba". Xs version of "Soul kitchen ".
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Blinded by the light, cum on feel the noise, and Here I go again.

These are all songs that give me the most intense feelings/energies possible as a child listening to the radio riding around in the back seat of my parents car.

I at first was surprised that they were covers, but then I was completely baffled when the originals had almost no energy to them.

+1 to Blinded by the Light. IMHO, the most creative/radically different cover that is also superior to the original.
 
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