holy sh*t! this is an excellent cover!

i personally really like midge ure's cover of "The Man Who Sold the World". unfortunately i can't post URL's yet but once i can i'll edit this post with a URL

I'm not saying it's better per se, but I really like it...

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I thought I'd bump this thread to remind us all that we have a place to talk about the values and virtues of cover versions.
Here's one that has sparked some chat in another thread:-



...and the original:-



My vote goes to YES as the better version; they make an interesting song out of the original. Not altogether surprising that it's a song that's rather overlooked in the Beatles discography: it's sweet enough, but is just cut so short by today's standards.

I haven't seen music_collector around for ages. If you're out there, please be aware that thanks to your comment, I'm not just logging out now - I'm stomping off the forum in disgust and slamming the door loudly !!

Yeah, I have to admit this isn't one of the Beatles' better songs. Yes does a good version of it though.

And in that spirit,





and of course....

^ I'm confused: isn't that the original?
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Despite The Drifters cover version being the best known, this was the originalest recording I could find of On Broadway:



This treatment from Psychedelic Guitar Circus sounds so different that it's difficult to call one "better" than the other, but the PGC version is the one I keep going back to, so by that measure it wins over The Cookies:

I'd posted the covers of that and Babe somewhere else.

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