Is it just me, or does every cover of a Bob Dylan song eclipse the original?
Bob Dylan's "Masters of War":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSM9mbnUs88
Mountain's cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERur4grAN7Q
Even Guns 'n' Roses got in on the action. Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_swaxOidGU
And the miraculously slightly less insipid Guns 'n' Roses cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tmc8rJgxUI
Okay so I guess I only have two examples, because my other really good one is also by Mountain (their Highway 61 Revisited), and Billy Joel's cover of The Times They Are A-Changin' is indistinguishable. And the original is pretty baller. But still what's with that phenomenon.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
You forgot "All Along the Watchtower", probably the most important example.
It's not just you. Here's a list.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/04/50-best-bob-dylan-covers-of-all-time.html?p=3
The only other one I knew was "One More Cup of Coffee" and I am pleasantly surprised to see its position on this list.
Peripherally related: in my opinion, Elton John's cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" beats the original.
http://youtu.be/_SZ6J6fjw9w
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Born disabled / [Courage Wolf] / Just playing life on hard mode
I saw Bob Dylan in concert last year. It was just kinda sitting there wondering what the hell he was saying for an hour and a half.
Then after cheering for 10 minutes, he FINALLY came back out and did Like A Rolling Stone.
Best $5 ever spent.
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Well, there is a new accent of n00b language. It's called: Vet LUEser goes Foreign!-MegaSpy22
Those must be the pants of the gods!-Digitalpython
Actually I just thought of All Along the Watchtower now (although the BSG cover was what popped into my head, not Hendrix's. If it's really a cover, since I thought Dylan wrote it and was like "nah, you'll do a better job with this").
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
The Byrds cover of Mr. Tambourine Man is a whole lot better than the original.
Though the I'm Not There soundtrack provides quite a few counter examples to this theory.
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