Covers better than originals

Can’t trawl the thread from a phone, but this is the obvious one. (Suspect it’s already been posted).
 
How has the thread got this far without No Doubt?

I’ve got this on CD in the car, the whole album is pretty good , but I particularly like this track
 
Please bear in mind that this thread is not about covers you love, or even like, just ones that are improvements on the originals.

I agree that Comfortably Numb by the Scissor Sisters was a poor song, but it is a far better song than the original.

Yeah but they're clearly not though thats the point, none of these are. :p

There is so much personal choice as well as generational bias here that theres nothing in this thread thats objectively better than the original, just different.
 
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Nooooooo! This doesn't touch the original!

I just don’t like his voice in Talk Talk. It sounds all high and trembly like a bleating sheep to me, where as Gwen Stefani has got such a seductive sultry voice in the cover and sings it with emotion.
 
The whole of St Anger (the album) covered by two guys and a sound engineer. pretty amazing and it sounds SOO much better than Metallica's album. Not new, but i was listning to this earlier and realised i've never seen it mentioned here. So here it is :)

 
The whole of St Anger (the album) covered by two guys and a sound engineer. pretty amazing and it sounds SOO much better than Metallica's album. Not new, but i was listning to this earlier and realised i've never seen it mentioned here. So here it is :)


I can't listen now but has this got solo's on and the tin can drums taken away?

I liked the "And Justice for Jason" remake.

Update
I have seen this before, I thought there was a new one.
 
I'll get crucified for this but I prefer Oasis' "Cum on Feel the Noize" to Slade's version.

I thought "Where the Streets Have No Name" by Muse at Glasto was better than U2 the following year. Might be a nostalgia thing but it was just a great moment, Matt Bellamy seems to really go for it as a sort of tribute to U2 who had to pull out that year.

Not sure it strictly counts but Rhythm of the 90s are truly incredibly live act who perform 90s dance live (keyboards, drums, female vox, male vox, bass etc etc), so everything is a cover version but they inject their own style a bit, it's like 120% euphoria compared to just listening to a DJ playing classic tunes. In a way it has ruined clubbing for me because everything else seems so mundane.
 
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