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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
joey54
431 posts
 

Warren Haynes - One (U2)

zazouswing
138 posts
 

Maybe the Slits version of Heard It Through the Grapevine could be on this list. Sam Gopal’s Back Door Man (the original is fine, but just fine). Also, Nina Simone’s Love Me or Leave Me. 

charliecheese
18 posts
 

Twist And Shout by The Beatles.

pingpong9
23 posts
 

Love Is All Around - R.E.M.

Solitary Man - Sidewinders

Bus Stop - Fountains of Wayne

Natures Way - Firefall

Twelve-Thirty - Autoliner

gcurtis
2 posts
 

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. 

 

 

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