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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
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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. 

wwoodrum
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Townes Van Zandt's cover of the Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers"

 

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