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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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ghasley
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@rrm 

Gordon Lightfoot: Me and Bobby McGee. So much better than Janis Joplin

Actually the song, written by Kris Kristophersen, was first recorded by Roger “King of the Road” Miller. Then by Kenny Rogers and THEN by Gordon Lightfoot…Joplin recorded it in 1970 IIRC and yes, almost any version is better than hers unless you are a diehard Joplin fan. I’m not.

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bigtwin
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The Cure doing Purple Haze on the tribute Lp Stone Free. 

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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. 

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