otonneau Wrote:
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> Time is on my side better by the Stones than by
> Irma Thomas?? NO WAY!
>

Maybe not...but the version with Sarah Dash on the Winos' live disc certainly is ;^)

Yeah, the Midget's version is better than the original. Still dig the Tempts version of "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" better than the Stones. I never thought they did the Motown stuff worth beans but they could play the hell out of the Southern soul stuff i.e, Solomon Burke and Otis. Their version of "Just My Imagination" is good but it is not better than the Tempts, just different.

don't everone jump on me too bad,the stones are still my no. 1 band but Johnny Winter damn near cut them with his live JJFlash from the Johnny Winter and Live album!!!

afew off the top of my head...

Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Wild Horses - The Flying Burrito Bros.
Twist & Shout - The Beatles
All Along The watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
It Must Be Love - Madness
I Fought The Law - The Clash
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
you Were Always On My Mind - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals



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loog droog Wrote:
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> It Through the Grapvine they liked
> better--Marvin Gaye or Creedence. Because it was
> a rock station, the Creedence version won! One
> listener said he liked it better because it had
> "more guitar." Go figure.


Marvin Gaye's version is the best one, hands down. Better than Gladys night's also. talk about production!

mrgrowl791 Wrote:
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> Rod Stewart's Street Fighting Man



you have got to be joking!

Quinn the Eskimo -Manfred Mann

Ket Wrote:
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> Quinn the Eskimo -Manfred Mann


I prefer Dylan's version.

Janis Joplin - Summertime
Aretha Franklin - Respect
Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer



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Billie Stewart - Summertime - I think beats Janis' version by a mile. Oustanding.

One observation: one singer, according to me, beats all the ones he covered and was covered many times without ever being equaled: Sam Cooke.

His readings of Cry me a river, Solitude, These Foolish Things are fantastic,
The Stones covering Good Times are pitiful, as is Otis (whom I love) on Shake or A Change is gonna come. Everybody sounds either messy, asthmatic or candid next to the unbeatable Sam, greatest singer ever in my book.

I beg to differ about good times. The stones cover is good. and otis' change is gunna come too. I like what he does with it at the end. im not saying theyre better than cook, but theyre hardly pitiful.



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I like The Band's version of "Blind Willie McTell" better than Dylan's original version.

The Band's version is found on a 1993 release called Jericho
Dylan's version is found on the recent 3 CD best of called DYLAN or the Bootleg Series Vols 1-3.

The LYL version of Around and Around. Little red rooster, the studio from 1964. Love in vain.

audun-eg Wrote:
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> Like a Rolling Stones by the Stones, better than
> Bob Dylan.

Surely not?