Original vs Cover

[Agent Minivann]

This idea occurred to me while driving last night. A cover song came on the radio, and I started thinking about various covers and originals. I was thinking about how I liked some of the covers better than the originals, but mostly it was the originals that shine. Then I thought it would be interesting to post a song and its cover version and have votes tallied for which one heroscapers prefer. Then I thought about a bunch of threads like that with binary polls, and I thought I should do it differently if I do it at all. So this is what I came up with. There will be one thread with all of them. I'll post a song and a cover version and open the thread to comments/votes. After a couple weeks I'll tally the votes and post the results. I'll update this post with links to each match up, and the results of which one is "better".

1. Come Together the Beatles original beats out the Aerosmith cover 14-2
2. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) Jimi Hendrix original beats Stevie Ray Vaughn cover 3-2
3. Behind Blue Eyes The Who vs Limp Bizkit

[Taeblewalker]

I tend to like Van Halen's covers, and Judas Priest's covers. But I'm partial to metal, and that might make all the difference for me.

On a side note, I thought this was a thread about Agent Skahen.

[Agent Minivann]

First up:
A The Beatles - Come Together
B Aerosmith - Come Together

When voting on one of the songs, please post your vote in bold. Put A/B and/or original/cover when voting for simplicity in tallying the votes. I'll leave it open for voting for about 2 weeks. If that is too much time I might drop it down to 1 week.

[RabSheila]

Here's mine:

A - Original

[A_Train]

A - Original.

I usually tend to prefer originals if the song styles are sort of the same. But I really enjoy covers when something like a metal song is done acoustically, or a pop song is done by a heavy rock song, etc.

[jschild]

My favorite cover where the cover blows the original away is Johnny Cash's version of "I Hurt Myself Today" - the pain in his singing is so palpable compared to the original. Overall, most of the time the cover is not as good though.

[Agent Minivann]

Originally Posted by jschild

My favorite cover where the cover blows the original away is Johnny Cash's version of "I Hurt Myself Today" - the pain in his singing is so palpable compared to the original. Overall, most of the time the cover is not as good though.

Maybe I'll put that one up next. I had no idea Johnny Cash did the cover. I thought he did the original (that just goes to show how much I paid attention to both Nine Inch Nails and Johnny Cash).

[jschild]

Originally Posted by Agent Minivann

Maybe I'll put that one up next. I had no idea Johnny Cash did the cover. I thought he did the original (that just goes to show how much I paid attention to both Nine Inch Nails and Johnny Cash).

He did it shortly after his wife died (and he followed very shortly after). Few songs can match the pain you can hear in that song.

[Einar's puppy]

C- Joe Cocker's version is better than both of those.

Though out of the two, A.

[lefton4ya]

Originally Posted by Agent Minivann

First up:
A The Beatles - Come Together
B Aerosmith - Come Together

When voting on one of the songs, please post your vote in bold. Put A/B and/or original/cover when voting for simplicity in tallying the votes. I'll leave it open for voting for about 2 weeks. If that is too much time I might drop it down to 1 week.

A- Original

As for covers, anything off Johnny Cash's American IV is better than the original in my opinion.

[Balantai]

A - Original

My favorite cover: I Will Survive by Cake.

[Lord Pyre]

A, nothing beats original Beatles.