Newsgroup post, March 4, 2005:<\/p>\n
So I’m messin’ around with iTunes, which I downloaded ages ago but have yet to actually buy anything from, and I start poking through the Yardbirds’ catalog, and play a sample from “Train Kept a’Rollin’.”<\/p>\n
The Aerosmith cover is way better.<\/p>\n
Which got me thinking about how often a cover version is better than the original. Not that<\/i> often, certainly — most covers suck — but when it happens it can be pretty cool.<\/p>\n
Aerosmith’s version of “Train Kept a’Rollin’ kicks ass, for example. Or consider Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love,” which is vastly superior to the original.<\/p>\n
And then there are the covers that are so different that you can’t really compare them, like the Cardigans’ version of the Black Sabbath song “Iron Man.”<\/p>\n
But there are borderline cases, too. Is Pat Benatar’s cover of “Wuthering Heights” as good as the Kate Bush original? What about the remixed Bush version?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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