Writer's Block: Cover me

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All Along the Watchtower. Originally by Bob Dylan, but the cover by Jimi Hendrix was such an improvement that Dylan adopted Hendrix's arraignment.

The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown) Original by Fleetwood Mac, far better cover by Judas Priest.

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[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

This Mortal Coil's version of Song to the Siren (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM) blows the Tim Buckley original out of the water.

And, while there's nothing wrong with the original, I'll take The Be Good Tanyas' cover of Waiting Around to Die (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwumPYSHop8) in preference to the Townes Van Zandt version. They also do a fantastic version of In My Time of Dying (notice a theme?); that's an old gospel tune of mysterious origin, although apparently Blind Willie Johnson did the first recorded version.

Also check out the Cowboy Junkies' mindblowingly good version of Springsteen's State Trooper. It's off their covers album, Whites Off Earth Now, which is fantastic start to finish.

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

Oh! And the Cowboy Junkies' "Sweet Jane" is better than the original.

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

...as officially endorsed by Lou Reed (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/01/2007_05_mon.shtml).