Okay, then I post another cover I am not sure is really better than the original, but I really like:
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Yeah nice! In a Big Country is an absolute jam, and that helps redeem it for me.
Unfortunately, I have been imprinted with memories of a cover that is, letâs say, not better than the original:
Oh thatâs awesome. JosĂ© GonzĂĄlez covers are all so well reworked into his own style. His Teardrop cover is also worth a listen for those who havenât come across it at some point. I mean, Heartbeats will never not belong to The Knife in my mind, listened to it a lot back in the day, but Iâm digging this version.
Funny, when I first saw the title in the link I initially thought it was a cover of Heartbeat by Don Johnson and thought ânow thatâll be a wild JosĂ© GonzĂĄlez coverâ but the song he actually did makes more sense 
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I thought that name sounded familiar! His version was the closing music to an episode of The Last Dance last year.
I think I never posted my favorite cover song of all time. This is Dust Rhinos, a celtic rock band from Winnipeg covering Peter Gabriels Solsbury Hill
Did you know that the OP for the classic baseball anime Touch has become a brass band staple for cheer squads in Japan?
Original:
Brass band rendition:
That isnât to say that the cover is better than the original (quite frankly, the title for this thread is a bit annoying to me), but it is very interesting. What do you say @SkeleRym as a Brass band veteran?
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So when I first heard this song, I didnât realize it was an A-Ha cover - I didnât even realize A-Ha had more than one song. I was distinctly confused that Ihsahn, the godfather of Norwegian black metal, was releasing something that sounded like a new wave/synthpop song, but I was into it so whatever.
And then I went and listened to the original and it all made sense.
Honestly, this is pretty similar to the original, and Einar Solberg even sounds a decent bit like Morten Harket - but itâs still got enough of a different feel that I can prefer it distinctly to the original.
This knowledge prodded me to go check out A-Ha a bit more and, huh, there was some compelling stuff in that catalog.
Aha has a great every brothers cover if you wanted to look that up.
Edit found it.
Itâs really good.
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Iâve been maybe a bit obsessed with the sounds and styles of one Caroline Polacheck lately (to that point, I had to go and see her live show in New Haven a few weeks back, which was a fucking jaaaaam) and I canât get enough of her version of Breathless:
And this âlive studioâ version is basically as good or better. Take your pick:
Okay, I have to write about this even though I donât think this cover is better than the original by a long shot.
So because of our train song thread I put together a youtube playlist about train songs. One of the songs I put on there is the Willie Nelson version of âCity of New Orleansâ. The song felt very familiar and I am sure I heard it somewhere before, particularly the line âSay, donât you know me? Iâm your native sonâ. Perhaps I had heard the Arlo Guthrie version before or some other version.
However, the tune had the kind of familiarity which felt odd. Like you know this, but itâs not quite how you remember it. Then I visited Wikipedia to learn about the song, and it hit me like a brick to the face.
Some backstory: When I grew up and we got satellite TV and with it german television in the 90s, there was TV presenter named Rudi Carell. He was actually dutch, but made his living in germany. I remember him particular for his on-screen feud with german comedian Mike KrĂŒger, who would make fun of Carellâs accent and his mediocre songs. Carell released some songs during his time in the Schlager genre, a genre of german pop song noteworthy only in the ways it attempts to not offend anybody and usually ridiculed by most younger audiences. His most famous song is âWann wirdâs mal wieder richtig Sommerâ (translates to âWhen will it truly become summer again?â) a lament about the supposed worsening of summer weather in germany, full of cheap nostalgia. And yes, it is the same tune as âCity of New Orleansâ and I kind of hate it for it.
City of New Orleans is like three orders of magnitude a better song, and Carell basically placed some really gaudy wallpaper over it, but because it was popular back in the 70s it is also routinely covered in germany with multiple charting covers of the song over the years.
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A new category of CBTTO: covers so much better you didnât know they were covers.
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Again, I donât imply that the thread title implies to this, but I stumbled across this cover and had to share it:
DM covers are always welcome in my world. Not saying this one quite nails the vocals at the Gahan/Gore level, not enough meat left on the bone; but the production injects the track with a fresh energy that respects the original while giving it a bit of a Witchhouse veneer.
Courtesy the show Pantheon:
For the viewer who has already seen Ghost In The Shell, I canât say you should run out and watch, but it had pretty good music for a TV show
Not necessary better but fantastic in itâs own way. Also, most of the cover songs in Bridgerton are great.
Maybe we could change the thread name to âFantastic Cover Songsâ?
In honor of his passing.
The Dropkick Murphys released an album last month where they put music to unreleased songs by Woody Guthrie.
P.S.: Can we please change the title of this thread already?
To what?â