Sometimes the original is better.

[Splitpin]

As much as I love the Pink cover .... you can't beat the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfjon-ZTqzU

[toprob]

Ah, yes. Sometimes I wonder 'what if'. I've been listening to a podcast which plays all the albums from the book '1001 albums to listen to before you die'. Someone mentioned that 'Pearl' was kind of a best-of, which is kind of sad. My favourite Youtube vid isBall and Chain at Monterey, although I always cry, thinking that we could have seen a lot more of these blues belters.

Seeing Mama Cass in the audience always make me think that if these two had looked after each other, their legacy would have been very different.

[emfrat]

As much as I love the Pink cover .... you can't beat the original.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfjon-ZTqzU

I don't understand how any artist could think they could cover a Janis recording, and do it better. It's not a tribute, it's an insult. Bl**dy arrogance

[chopper_nut]

This is one of the songs that the missus and I play together. She sings of course... I don't ever knock covers, some of my favourite songs are covers.

[Charl]

Erm chaps before you go off the deep end:

"Me and Bobby McGee" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson and originally performed by Roger Miller

I was mightily surprised when I learned that Joplin actually had a beautiful singing voice, just the screechy one sold better!

[deaneb]

Hearts cover of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven is quite something too. Sometimes just sometimes a cover can be exceptional.

[Charl]

Totally agree - and Jimmy Page also thought so, if his face was anything to go by, at the performance.