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?
There are lots of great covers here and I’ll try organon a proper answer later. For now, and given the songs already mentioned, I am surprised not to see lots of support for Mr. Cash singing Personal Jesus. Mind you, as soon as I typed that, I realised that I need to mention:-
Bert Jansch’s cover of Davey Graham’s Angie (no, not the Rolling Stones song) and the Stones’ cover or Robert Johnson’s Love In Vain. |
@nickofwimbledon - indeed, Johnny Cash has done a number of great covers. 'Personal Jesus' is excellent, but my favourite is his version of Nick Cave's great 'The Mercy Seat'. Really like 'Rusty Cage', too.... |
