Music Videos: Cover Songs That Outshine The Original
November 22, 2008 02:01 
Leave a comment » Cover songs play a vital role in the music industry. Many bands have been launched on the back of a great cover – going on to perform and record original music. There have also been a number of artists who are already great in their own right who have a hit with a cover song. This list deals with the latter category.
Happy Mondays – Step on
Original: John Kongos
Classic Ryder take on great rambling dance hall shuffle from South Africa. While the lyric “Oh he lied, oooh he’s twistin’ my melon man” sounded perfectly logical coming from Shaun Ryders Ecstasy fuelled mind, it wasn’t his line.
Petshop Boys – Always on my Mind
Original: Brenda Lee
Neil Tennant always had an ear for the sublime hook. And with this cover of Brenda Lee’s 1972 song, that was also covered by Elvis Presley (1972) Wilie Nelson (1982), the Petshop Boys took the song to a UK Number One.
Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares to you
Original: Prince
Sinead O’Connor had a world wide number one hit in 1990 with this cover of the Prince track originally performed by The Family in 1985. O’Connor’s version is the definitive version, and after the song became a number hit in the US, Australia, Germany and the UK, Prince even began to perform the song at his live shows.
