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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?

kazana
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danager
943 posts
 

Walk On By : Woong San feat. Toku

 

 

pkatsuleas
249 posts
 

+1 Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah.  Cohen might be a great writer, but can't take his singing! 

I love me some Simon and Garfunkel but Yes doing America is great IMO.

sadclown5
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Next by Scott Walker (orig. Jacques  Brel)

No Senor Apache by Los Apson (orig. Larry Verne)

 

 

jkf011
290 posts
 

"Alone Again Or" by The Damned, cover of Love. 

bubba_buoy
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My dad, a true Baby Boomer, always said "If there are multiple great covers of a song, it proves it's a great song."

My take....

Hendrix version of "All Along The Watchtower."

Jeff Beck Group "Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You" (also a Dylan song)

Chris Cornell’s cover of "Nothing Compares To You"

 

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