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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slaw Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 21,372 posts 07-14-2022 at 10:19am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Wichita Lineman by The Meters is very good.
larsman Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,926 posts 07-14-2022 at 03:45pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @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....
chowkwan Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 167 posts 07-14-2022 at 06:52pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Cover of a cover.
chowkwan Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 167 posts 07-14-2022 at 07:10pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Cover of a cover. The cover. The original.
chowkwan Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 167 posts 07-14-2022 at 07:18pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The cover including great guitar solo. The original with the originator and the cover artist.