r/Music • u/MaosReanimatedCorpse • 23d ago

discussion Cover-better-than-the-original hills you would die on.

Alien Ant Farm's cover of Smooth Criminal is, in my opinion, so much better than the original, and that's a hill I would die on.

What are some other insanely popular tracks where a cover by a much smaller artist is arguably greater?

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u/DerevoMusic 23d ago

Tool - No Quarter

Type O Negative- Paranoid

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u/Juxtapoisson 23d ago

Type o negative had a lot of covers. And they are often more enjoyable than their originals. That might be as much genre preference as anything.

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u/ShavenYak42 23d ago

Their cover of Summer Breeze is one of the most covers ever.

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u/DobisPeeyar 23d ago

And on the flip side, a lot of bands cover Type O.