What songs have you found that you prefer to the original version?

NOTE: THIS THREAD IS ABOUT PERSONAL PREFERENCES, NOT SOME SORT OF UNIVERSAL TRUTH.

A few of the songs I prefer listening to, even though I might like the original a lot too:

• "Go west" by the Petshop boys rather than by the Village People
• "Boulevard of Broken Songs" by Dean Gray, rather than "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day
• "Sakuranbo kiss" by Scanning Around rather than Kotoko (hardrocker/metal/whatever version of a song which in the original was a cutesy, loli-voiced song)
• "Paint it black" by Statemachine rather than any of the other covers I've heard or the original. Though Nightwish did pretty well too.
• "Hurricane 2000" by The Scorpions & Berlin Philharmonic Orcestra, rather than the original.
• All of the songs that were on the Black Sabbath tribute CD "Nativity In Black II", I was rather heartbroken when I bought a CD with the original songs two years later, and discovered that I vastly preferred the tribute CD over the original songs.
• Several Weird Al songs.

• Strand - Never fail and Noise Process - dead world are largely better in the Dismantled version
• baby fox made a remix of Cujo's Northstar, which still is the only allowed remix of any Amon Tobin track there is. period.
• amon tobin's remix of Ryuichi Sakamoto's Grief
• the dryft remix of Gridlock's Enzyme
• Marin Marais' Folies are by far the best work on that material.
• François Dagincour wrote a lovely edition of Couperin LG's La Couperin
• the Orphx version of Er is better than both mlada fronta's and that of Zonk't, and Tarmvred does a better job than all of the previous.

Of course, all of those would be totally worthless without knowing the original in my opinion.

Two Yuki songs -
"Nagai Yume" Harco Remix and the Takagi Masakatsu Rama Remix of "Joy".

Hm..

• Johnny Cash's version of "One" by U2.
• Paul Anka's version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana.
• Iron & Wine's version of "Such Great Heights" by The Postal Service.

Actually, most of the time I prefer covers that totally reinvent the song into a different genre better than the originals.

Wish you were here-Pink Floyd

nirvana - the man who sold the world
johnny cash - hurt

the majority of arranged touhou music

>Paul Anka's version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana.

HELL YEAH

>>8
haven't heard it, but i quite like tori amos' version of same.

Everybody can sing "Smells Like Teen Spirit".