Covers so good you forget they’re not the original version

What are some cover songs that make you forget there’s another original version?

Judas Priest - The Green Manalishi
Scorpions - I Can’t Explain 
Stryper - Shining Star
Jorn - I Know There’s Something Going On
Ugly Kid Joe - Cats In The Cradle
Metallica - Stone Cold Crazy
Tesla - Signs

I’m sure there’s more I’m forgetting.

Not metal but Blinded By The Light is tons better than the original.

Its all personal opinion of course but for me

Aerosmith - Come Together
The Showdown - Carry On My Wayward Son
Holy Soldier - Gimme Shelter
As I Lay Dying - Electric Eye
Haste The Day - Meet Me Half Way
Haste The Day - Long Way Down

Place of Skulls- Desperation
Motley Crue- Smokin' in the Boys Room
Great White- Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts- I Love Rock n Roll
Quiet Riot- Mama, Weer All Crazee Now
Children of Bodom- Jessie's Girl
Megadeth- These Boots

11razorwire wrote:Motley Crue- Smokin' in the Boys Room
Great White- Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts- I Love Rock n Roll

I forgot the first two were covers, and I can't believe I forgot the last one. Good call on these, though! That's exactly what I'm talking about. Not just great covers, but covers so good it's easy to forget there's an original version.

This is pretty much unknown but I love it. Not better than the original but a great cover with a surprise vocalist at the end:

And no disrespect to the Allman Brothers but I prefer the Styx version of One Way Out:

I am sure most people have never heard this version (the original). Hendrix clearly has the better version. Won't post the cover because we have all heard it. When Bob Dylan heard the Hendrix version he said it was no longer a Bob Dylan song but a Jimi Hendrix song.

MikeInFla wrote:I am sure most people have never heard this version (the original). Hendrix clearly has the better version. Won't post the cover because we have all heard it. When Bob Dylan heard the Hendrix version he said it was no longer a Bob Dylan song but a Jimi Hendrix song.

Actually, I'm not familiar with this original nor the Hendrix-version.

Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize
Mr Big - Wild World
Beau Nasty - Love Potion No 9
Lillian Axe - No Matter What

Faster Pussycat - You're So Vain

Hate the band...(despite seeing them live twice)...but love their version of this classic song WAAAY more than Carly's

Metallica - Turn The Page

Both the Screaming Trees and Robert Plant's cover of the song "Darkness Darkness".  I had never even heard The Youngblood's version until years later.

16 Horsepower's album Folklore is made up of all covers and they're fantastic.  I've since heard some of the originals or other versions and they all just pale in comparison to 16HP's.  (Though Warpriest's Sinnerman song is epic  .)  A few others I like:

Death Therapy - Crazy
Forsaken - Neon Knights
My Silent Wake - I Am (Eternity)
Pantokrator - Awesome God
Parakletos - A Sovereign Fortress
Place Of Skulls - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

Here are some good covers:

Metallica - Whisky in a Jar
Impellitteri - Symptom of the Universe (Black Sabbath cover)
Rez Band - Bargain (The Who Cover)
Deliverance and Stryper - After Forever (Black Sabbath cover)

Rob Rock covering Rock You Like a Hurricane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2otNM4B_-3c

Audiovision - The Way

Let's keep on track...I'm not asking for great covers. I'm asking for covers so good you forget there's an original. No one's forgetting Rock You Like A Hurricane or Stryper's The Way. Just sayin... 

Soldier777 wrote:Here are some good covers:

Metallica - Whisky in a Jar

 
 Love that song..did not know it was a cover

Killswitch - Holy Diver
Racer X - Godzilla
Iced Earth - The entire Tribute to the Gods album
Disturbed - Land of Confusion
Nevermore - Love Bites
A Perfect Circle - Imagine

Many of Led Zeppelin songs are covers of delta blues songs from the 20's

Don Henley-Everybody Knows

KISS God Gave Rock and Roll To You II

The Black Crowes - Hard to Handle



Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust

Here's a great example. Eric Clapton covering JJ Cale's 'Cocaine'