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  • Is it weird I like both versions? 'Cause people can't seem to just chill and listen.

  • personally, i like the foo version better, in my personal opinion the deep dark grunge sound makes the song more intensem while the synth-pop style of prince just makes it sound like a joke... figured i'd through that out here...

  • strange - the prince song actually suits the foo sound

  • Prince good.....Foos BEST

  • @knownasnick fuck u this is not better than the original version. Fyi this song did get released dumbass

  • @JCInsatiable319 I would say it is better than the original, but I'm talking about on itunes. It's not there, go ahead and check. I dare you.

  • Fuck Prince for not letting this get released. He knows its a better version, fucker.

  • @knownasnick Of course, to each our own, but the Prince version is cooler than this. More minimalist, a better rum track, better vocals... and just weirder

  • ha ha ha. My girls name is nikki so I keep singing this song to her. It pisses her off but it is still funny as hell ever time i play it next to her. HA HA NIKKI!!!! OHHH NIKKI

  • Love it! Thanks for sharing.

  • Brilliant!

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  • I love the Foo Fighters, but this doesn't improve or match the original. Of course, it's very hard to redo Prince songs.

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  • why?

  • Taylors not brining it. No double bass. But cool cover.

  • 32 people are members of crappy mainstream bands that know the Foo Fighters rule everyone.

  • Fuuuuck yaaaaa!!!

  • nobody can scream like dave

  • Prince s version is genius, but this is also brilliant.

  • I like the original, but I love the foo fighters version:)

  • one of the few. Better than the original

  • if prince does not like that foo's covered his song, then who's he to say?

    i mean foo's covered many songs ( even led zeppelin and queen songs with parts of the bands they cover to play along with them) it's a form of respect, and due

  • I LOVE THIS, DAVE GROHL IS SO FUGGIN SEXY...AAAAAHHHHH!!!!

  • i feel so bad for daves voice over there years his scream has gotten so f'd up... there still one of the best bands ever though

  • @guitarmanguy92 but know he screams very well, not as well as here, but it stills rocks

  • @juliaanrock yea i heard them live like a week ago and he sounded great

  • I don't think you did know it was Darling Nikki...

  • awesome cover.....

    

  • @vodkat22, i totally agree.. this is AWESOME..

  • Foo Fighters do a MUCH better Darling Nikki than Prince did at Best of You.

  • the reason Prince did a cover of Best of You was because he hates there cover so to get back at the Foo Fighters he did Best of You and tried to do a bad job at it

  • Its like they poured a bottle of Purel on one of the sexiest songs ever.

  • prince respects grohl and the foo, that's why he covered them when he played the super bowl.

  • This fukin rocks!!! They did the song justice. Prince would like how they did it.

  • The original made me giggle cause my name is Nikki, this one makes me blush!

  • No one can compete with the way prince screams but man this is fucking awesome..

  • prince's version sounds like britney spears is doing it ,whereas the foos kick it into the r'n'r gear!

  • @Clandestinemonkey A "Cover" is a tribute to a song...something they wish they wrote or respect. ALL who put this down remember that, that this is a group paying homage to a great song

  • @handsmlake Just because they tried real hard doesn't mean I have to like it. A good cover should show the band's style as they tribute the song, not just a knockoff of the original sound. Look up Locust's cover of "Master and Servant" for a good example.

  • your out of your mind, this is an awesome version. FOOFIGHTERS ROCK!!

  • @Clandestinemonkey

    I will kill you.

  • this is actually good omg. i usually hate covers like this but this is really really good

  • yes yes yes!!!

  • 4th graders are allowed to comment??

  • I don't give a shit about the Foo Fighters-Prince back and forth. I'm a huge fan of both and the merging of the two styles is fucking amazing.

  • Prince is a prick!!

  • @stoneydog1000 your mama's a ho

  • I like Prince's better.

    You cant duplicate a prince song and try to sound as good him. This just made me dislike the foo fighters.

  • @Sceneqirlrawrr This song kicks ass and rocks, especially live. It completely baffles me how this could make you like foo fighters LESS. You must not have liked them much in the first place.

  • Foo's 'Nikki' cover is on iTunes as a "Podcast." It's free, which I thought was weird, but it's awesome.

  • I'm totally gay for Dave

  • Has no clue what he is talking about. Here is the F. Fighters stating that Prince's the "Best of you" was better than theirs!

    "I mean, the thought went through my head that maybe he was doing it as a sort of 'F--- you' to us, or maybe he really likes the song. Either way, it was pretty amazing to have a guy like Prince covering one of our songs — and actually doing it better than we did." - Taylor Hawkins

  • This is possibly the worst thing that I've ever heard. It is like insulting to Prince to have them make such a horrible cover of his song.

  • @CarrotsTasteGood you're a idiot 

  • @CarrotsTasteGood You're fucking stupid. Prince did a shitty Best of You cover at the Super Bowl in retaliation for the Foos awesome cover of this.

  • @JHall1294 Has no clue what he is talking about. Here is the F. Fighters stating that Prince's the "Best of you" was better than theirs!

    "I mean, the thought went through my head that maybe he was doing it as a sort of 'F--- you' to us, or maybe he really likes the song. Either way, it was pretty amazing to have a guy like Prince covering one of our songs — and actually doing it better than we did." - Taylor Hawkins

  • @jamaeva Oh, man. A band being humble? They like Prince, and they aren't gonna sit there and rip his cover. But his sounds like shit. Taylor is just being a good, humble dude, which all the foos are. You are a dumbass.

  • i love it!!! Going to seethem in 2 weeks... i'm so excited!!

  • wow...This is possibly the best cover I have heard of ANY artiest...and Prince is a hard dude to cover...BIG KUDOS to FF!! WOOO!! that was flippin AWESOME!!

    <3

  • such a good cover!!!

  • I love Dave and all of the foo fighter... and i completely adorde prince... Best cover EVER

  • Ive loved this song for so long because of the Foos cover but still haven't heard the original version haha

  • Great cover!

  • Good cover but the ultimate FUNK! of Prince can not be beat when it comes to doing this song.

  • awesome

  • i wanted to cover this song!

  • I like the original better...

  • Heh awesome!

  • he sounded drunk.... but good GTR

  • Try the Nikki Cover of MUCKY PUP this is the best version I know...., nevertheless - this is great, too

  • What a great cover of a great song!

  • AWESOME cover.

  • This was the greatest cover ever. Its a hot song anyway, but damn he adds to the hottness...and makes it hotter? If that makes sense... And...hes god on his guitar.

  • My Favorite Foo Fighters Song.....Nice Remake! \m/....feel free to add me Rockers or Leave a Comment.

  • but me body will never be the same

  • wouldve been even doper if dave could hit the falsetto notes 

  • the studio version of this song was better (foo fighters studio version i mean)...i personally like this better then the original prince version

  • sweet ass song

  • Prince can suck a dick

  • Definitely "funny" version (at least for them). But it doesn't have the feeling, the charismatic harmonic evolution, neither the INSANE double bass drum at the end of the original tune.

    Prince definitely made the sound of a spiteful heart with this song.

  • this cover was totaly not approved by prince not sure why

  • Hell yes!!! Prince is the shit!

  • Eh. :-\ Not bad, but nowhere near as exciting as the original.

  • next time there's a solo, camera man, focus on the person playing the solo

  • Nothing better than Dave Grohl screaming my name! Loved Princes version and really love this one!!!

  • this is fuckin awsome.

  • ambience... subtlty... sensuality... this cover lacks all of those; to be perfectly honest. And this is coming from a person (me) who fuckin' loves the Foo Fighters.

  • The drummer looks really happy....lol

  • Prince probably doesn't want this released because he is a born again Christian now and he swears off all his older songs.....a shame really, such classics.

  • @NoCalMike Agreed. When I first heard that because of his religion he'd never play a huge portion of his catalog ("Nikki" included), I was rather sad.

  • yeah..this was fuckin awesome..

  • this is retarded, no one can sing this like prince and definitely not the foo fighters, he sounds like he is choking on his microphone and gargling listerine... how frkn stupid...

  • Great Cover...

    Which, could be dangerous so intense Prince was... However didn't disapointed and made something very nice...

  • WOW, cameraman BLOWS COCK from 3:02 - 3:25 what that fuck...invisible guitar solo.

  • @idlehands1111111111 I completely agree....

  • good stuff man

  • GREAT....GREEAAT REMAKE!

    princes was great but this was AMAZING

    got to love both price and the FOO fighters <3

  • uLLLLLLLL my song ! i'm NIkki,thancks prince,foofighters and etc.everyone that sing this song THANCK ALL . :D

  • Great cover, Prince did an awesome cover of Best of You at the Super Bowl. But to not allow the release of this in the US is rather silly. Maybe Bob Dylan should sue Prince for playing All ALong the Watch Tower at the superbowl.

  • it's amazing!!!

  • No, it's Prince that cares...Especially since he owns the rights to his music...He is just picky about who uses his music, as well he should be! lol...(Trey Songz anyone?!)

  • FUCKING WOW! When you want freaky sex use the Prince version. When you want to fuck so hard she (or he) wont be able to walk use the Foo version.

  • "oh, she'll show you no mercy...but she'll SHONUFF, SHONUFF, show you how to grind." best fucking part.

  • OWWWWWWWWWWWW, NIKKI! <3

  • much respect to Foo Fighters who covered one of the best Prince songs ever... I hope they do more!

  • From what I've heard it isn't Prince that cares about people using his songs it's the company that he signed with. Prince has covered many songs and I doubt he would do one out of spite, although possible. At any rate this is a decent cover and atleast noteworthy.

  • Haha that is so cool!! :)

  • danm foo fighters rocked this song jus like they rock everything else!

  • awesome!

  • I always loved this song.  Best thing about this version, they didn't change it too much. They definitely left their own touch on it, but this is basically Prince's version. Nice job.

  • i heard this on the radio like a month ago

  • I loved this song when I first heard the remix! Its an awesome turn on a old, but good song. Bummed that he wouldn't let them release it and since then its disappeared, a little hard to find.

  • wooot mother fuking woot!!!!!

  • this is good but prince's version is still better :-)

  • the singing guys hair reminds me on that sheep dog on looney tunes....lls yall know which one im talking about...im just sayin :/ 

  • I'm a massive Prince fan, and that is AWESOME!!!!

  • @vodkat22 ...my point...Prince wrote the song and it meant something to him....so his will be what it wsa supposed to be.....BUT Foo did the song justice in this cover

  • @handsmlake The Foo Fighters are huge fans of Prince so they wouldn't disrespect him by doing a crappy cover

  • I was the biggest Dave Grohl naysayer back in the day but I had to come around as his talent is unbelievable

  • Was there ever a performance where Taylor Hawkins wasn't smiling the whole way though?

  • COME BACK PRINCE COME BACK ! FOOTASTIC COVER !

  • Great cover!!! I love the Foo Fighters!

  • Absolutely slayed Prince's masterpiece!!! 

  • so money, good cover

  • is this at almost acoustic christmas 2006?

  • excellant remake

  • princes version var den bedste.. men Foo gør det..

  • prince version was way better

  • i love this better than prince!:3 I <3 FOOFIGHTERS

  • There is no such thing as a better version than Prince's, but this is cool and I like it. Foo Fighters know how to properly cover great songs with respect. Watch "Band on the Run". Another great example.

  • I always liked Prince's version, but when I heard this version I was blown away. Awesome cover!!!

  • Dave is a nice guy he is my friends son and a stand up dude back off mudafkkeers can you even sing? lmao... i am guessing not so shut the fk up.... Prince is amazing and will not sell out like Neil and others he holds his music close... peace outis

  • Foo Fighters are Jammin'.. BUT....NOT BETTER THAN PRINCE..

  • Single handedly better than all of their original material put together.

    Funny. Foo Fighters should stop writing juke box filler and do something real ffs.

  • Is there a violin in this song? dunno what it is but its awesome

  • Yum!

  • this is a way awesome version of this song. he does make it a lot dirtier...love it :)

  • with this version, Grohl makes me believe that Nikki really was as nasty as all that. Makes me want to jump out of my life and BE NIKKI--if only for about 20 minutes or so. HOT!!!

  • I'm surprised Prince has let this on here.

  • Great job... But NO WAY IN HELL this is better than the ORIGINAL version of PRINCE!!! I could this same version if any bar in NEW YORK!!! PRINCE version is stupid sick!!!

  • Great rendition... the original was awesome when it first landed back in '84, and these guys have totally brought it in to the 21st century!

    Grohl rules... and Shiflett ripped it up -- awesome!!!

  • Love It!

  • wow, the other guitarist is soloing his dick off, and they only show dave. thats retarded

  • i love my dave, but that dude at the last 30 seconds fucks his guitar way harder.

  • tite song!!! i agreee sounds way better than prince no offence but u know it more...them :D

  • I love the Prince version but I like the Foo Fighters one better. I'm not saying they're better or worse than Prince, but I just feel like the song 'fits' more with the Foo Fighters; it feels more natural. But that's just my opinion, Prince is awesome too!

  • Somebody needs to do this kick-ass song live since Prince is now a Jehovas Witness and wont play it anymore! No more Cream,Erotic City....etc.....

  • theres a real badass death metalish version. It brings it to a whole new dark level

  • pretty damn gooood! but still love Prince version!

  • Wow. Foo fighters covered Prince? And it's an old song too, they must be fans!

  • IKR I love prince and foo fighters and had no idea!

  • fukin smashing any body that wants to be a smart ass and disagree will get a five finger death punch through their cpu!awesome!!!!!!!!

  • you're a fucking idiot

  • ur a asshole with a name the ryhmes with dookie!jerk a donkey and get butt fucked by a monkey !!! foo fighters rule !!!farm hand!!!!

  • Great song, but I wish the camera man had followed whoever was playing the lead bit at the end. Dave was just playing the rhythm. It's sort of funny to hear a rapid bunch of notes only to see Dave strumming chords.