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

Love Is All Around - R.E.M.

Solitary Man - Sidewinders

Bus Stop - Fountains of Wayne

Natures Way - Firefall

Twelve-Thirty - Autoliner

Frijid Pink's cover of The House of the Rising Sun was always my preferred. Such a product of it's time.. Animals was great too. 

 

 

Angelina Jordan - "Suspicious Minds" (Elvis Cover)

 

Angelina Jordan - "Easy On Me" (Adele Cover)

 

Virtually... ALL... covers by Elvis... are better than the originals... not only more talent reflected, but also, better production values...

Never My Love live from a concert on The Fifth Dimension's greatest hits LP. I guess they never recorded it. I wasn't expecting it and it floored me. Marilyn McCoo at her considerable best. Wonderful sound.