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?

kazana07-02-2022 12:56pm

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akg_ca Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,274 posts 07-07-2022 at 08:17pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete “Love Is All Around” - cover by WET,WET,WET versus - original by THE TROGGS
akg_ca Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,274 posts 07-07-2022 at 08:32pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete “*Hallelujah” - cover by K.D. LANG* versus original by LEONARD COHEN
bgross Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 397 posts 07-07-2022 at 08:55pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Couple more,... Fugees doing Roberta Flack’s "Killing Me Softly" Lauren Hill is amazing, Black Crowes doing John Lennon’s "Jealous Guy" & Vanessa Fernandez doing Curtis Mayfield’s "Here But I’m Gone" - soooo many great covers. Again, not better than the originals but different in sensational ways
dcevans Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 180 posts 07-07-2022 at 09:54pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Sorry but I don’t think the covers for “Walk on By” mentioned above come close to the original. They are interesting, but please. Not a huge Dionne Warwick fan, but her voice and the Burt Bacharach vibe are pure chemistry.
larsman Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,982 posts 07-08-2022 at 12:20am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I think Dionne and Burt are a wonderful combo, but I don't have any records by them, whereas I do have every Stranglers album featuring Hugh Cornwell. Very different indeed, but personally I wouldn't say either is 'better' - vive la differance!