Fri 25 Jan 2008
Below are the three original songs that are way less popular than their covers. Check em…
1. Bob Dylan – All Along the Watchtower
2. The Strangeloves – I want Candy
3. Gloria Jones – Tainted Love
any other good ones? maybe ill do part 2.
January 25th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
“Respect” by Otis Redding.
January 25th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
How about Badfiner’s original of “Without You”…Hit versions by Nilsson and Mariah Carey to name a couple.
Check it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Without_You
January 25th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Or Badfinger even….
January 25th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I had no idea I Want Candy was a cover. My entire world view has changed…..
Try the original “Piece of My Heart” by Erma Franklin (Aretha’s older sister), instead of the one recorded by Janice Joplin only a year after.
January 26th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Actually, Erma Franklin’s original beats Janis by a country mile [IMHO], good though her version is. Familiarity is no measure of quality.
January 26th, 2008 at 2:31 am
Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
Long, long, long – George Harrison
Rappaport’s Testament: I Never Gave Up – Chumbawumba
Nine Inch Nails – Hurt
January 26th, 2008 at 3:52 am
I agree with derek – Erma’s version does beat Janis’s by more than a country mile – a city mile even….
January 26th, 2008 at 3:57 am
wow. all these great ones. hmm maybe a part two?? yes?
January 26th, 2008 at 7:52 am
I really like the bleak, raspy Bob Dylan version of Mr Tambourine man, and the smarmy Byrds version never fails to turn my stomach. Of course that one the cover actually was released before the original, wonder if it would have been overlooked otherwise.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Blinded by the Light by The Boss.