"Alone Again Or" by The Damned, cover of Love.
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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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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Led Zeppelin's "In my Time of Dying" was at least a match for Blind Willie Johnson's version. And much better than the Dylan version.
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@bubba_buoy Yep, and Jeff Healey's version of Dylan's WHEN THE NIGHT COMES FALLING is pretty amazing as well. So was Jeff, RIP.
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