Alternate versions of songs you like better than the album version?

Demos, live version, alternate takes, ect.

This version of The Replacements "Can't Hardly Wait" is so much better than the final version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M7q5Mn3-oM

Please to Meet Me version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7LQiDjsde8

BQ: Which version of "Can't Hardly Wait" do you prefer?

Anonymous2012-01-02T14:33:56Z

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I prefer the live version of Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste by Galaxie 500, and the live version of Velvet Underground by Jonathan Richman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZf4T20PF2s (Galaxie 500)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTT-wj69ObE (Johnathan Richman)

BA: I dunno. I like both.

Rory2012-01-03T06:57:35Z

I like covers of some songs. These are the most recent I heard and thought were better than the original.

Alternate version of Where is my mind by Pixies. The new version is on The sucker punch soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U9f1Rrhz9w

Also, Sweet Dreams by Eurithmics is nicely covered too on that soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDPn4d651zM

BuzzyBee2012-01-02T22:41:41Z

I prefer Annie Lennox's acoustic versions of the song "Little Bird".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54O-oRemYBE

The album version I don't like at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAlfrJ-9uj4

BQ: I prefer the album version, just out of nostalgia: it sounds so 80's. Also, I like the horns. I think they are both charming, though.

?2012-01-02T14:30:58Z

I prefer the alternate version of Love as Arson by Converge than the original:
Alternate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjqvOZiyLz4
Original:
Wow lol, the original isn't even on youtube.
BQ: I don't know.

simone2012-01-02T18:10:23Z

I like the Demo versions of Warpaint more that the studio versions.

Set Your Arms Down (Demo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp_VNm45bvw
Set Your Arms Down (The Fool)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssGW6n3YCHQ

BQ: Demo. The Please to Meet Me version is too subdued.

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