Something that popped in my head when I looked at the albums thread were covers of songs sounding better the original version. Things like Jimi Hendrix's version of All Along the Watchtower being, at least I feel, better then Bob Dylan's original version. Or Tommy Emmanuel's Classical Gas being better then Mason William's original version. Any covers you think are better then the original?
I'd like to point out that the black mages has the original composer of those songs, nobuo uematsu, as a band member. I guess it's still a cover of sorts, but I get the feeling its more like how he might have wanted to do it but was limited for whatever reason.
Yeah he plays keys and gets way too excited at live shows. He could have done an all out rock score for FFVII-onwards because they were on disc and the point of discs over cartridges was more storage for higher quality audio (hence why N64 was all MIDI and Playstation was fucking glorious.)
Thank you, Just Cause 3, for introducing me to this cover. Whilst it's difficult to beat The Prodigy's original, this track is amazing in its own way.
Linsey Stirling is quite awesome indeed, moving around like that and playing like it's nothing (Not talking about that video in particullar either, just check what she's producing), looking stunning just adds to that.
Some good stuff in this thread Since you mentioned All along the watchtower, I really loved the Battlestar Galactica version. (I also love pretty much anything from that composer Bear McCreary) The song really starts at about 2:10, before that is rather intro. No video clip though. Done by Bear McCreary, singer is his brother Brendan McCreary. Bear makes a lot of TV show soundtracks (Walking dead, Defiance, etc...) Or The Live version btw, BSG best TV Series ever
