"All Along The Watchtower" covered by Jimi Hendrix could be the consensus pick which is tough to argue. My pick could upset some "Boomers"... House Of Lords cover of "Can't Find My Way Home". From a technical aspect everything is better vocals and musicianship/production even the emotional aspect is at least its equal. James Christian"s voice soars and Lanny Cordola's guitar solo electrifies this great song.
what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original?
The first ones to come to mind are Whitney’s version of I Will Always Love You and Allen Stone’s Georgia On My Mind but I would love to hear other contributions as well! I feel like there are a lot of songs where a covered version gets more popular than the original and people end up not realizing that it is a cover (ex. i had a friend that genuinely believed the Jonas Brothers wrote Year 3000). so, what‘a a song that was written by one artist but (figuratively) owned by another?