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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?

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mayabeez
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Faith No More - Easy

Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World

 

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tim_p
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Macarthur Park covered by Beggars Opera, original version by Richard Harris. 

williamjohnston
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Lee Ritenour and Kurt Elling add poignance and emotional coherence to ‘River Man’. Nick Drake really didn’t have a chance on so many levels. 
 

With all love and respect for Dionne Warwick IMO, Issac Hayes really nails ‘Walk On By’.

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"Blinded by the light" - Manfred Mann / Bruce Springsteen

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Phish - Lovin Cup (Stones)

phish - Peaches en Regalia (Zappa)

Phish - Frankenstein (Edgar Winter)

Phish - Drowned (The Who)

Phish - Roses Are Free (Ween)

Phish - Cities (Talking Heads)

Phish - Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House (Disney album)

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