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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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kray
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What a great thread.... 

I'll add some obscure alternative ones...

Bizarre Love Triangle - Frente (New Order)
Pure Imagination - Smoking Popes (Willy Wonka)
Toxic - Local H (Brittany Spears)
True - Duvall (Spandau Ballet)

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bgross
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How bout Ryan Adams covering Taylor Swift's, "1989" albumin its entirety - guilty pleasure that TS (I mean talent is talent). He does a great job with that LP front to back; it's pretty fun!

rello
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Yes - Paul Simon’s America. 

wwoodrum
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Townes Van Zandt's cover of the Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers"

 

desktopguy
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Yes to Jimi’s "All Along the Watchtower." Two of my favorite covers are below.

"A House Is Not a Home" -- this Bacharach/David tune was debuted by Dionne Warwick, and maybe the most popular cover was by Luther Vandross. Dusty Springfield never recorded it, which is mystifying when you hear her live version w/the composer on the piano and singing the 1st run-through:

 

"Walk This Way" -- This Scary Pockets/Judith Hill cover pushes all the buttons, especially the super-slow meter (risky but so effective for a slow build) & Judith’s astounding voice lighting up the tune.

 

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