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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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painter24
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@larsman  100%, "insipid" is ​​spot on to how I feel about Nash's stuff in CSN. 

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jafant
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Jamie Cullum - Frontin’ 

my Jazz reference song from my Jazz Reference album. 
verve 2004.

 

 

Happy Listening!

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asvjerry
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....and now for something entirely different:

 

...and fun to watch those do what you wouldn't dare.... ;)

noske
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Someone other than myself may have already noticed this (including Trent Reznor) but I'll mention it anyway - Johnny Cash made Hurt his own.

noske
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That Led Zep version of Taurus by the band Spirit.

Rolf Harris also covered LZ’s version but I think its probably best if that is not mentioned in polite company.

When the Levee Breaks - original was written and recorded circa 1929.

A couple dozen other Led Zep things.

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