Cover Songs that are Better Than the original

posted this in another thread, but it belongs here.

 

not better but ...

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I don't care if its better than the original... I love this one!

 

Been meaning to post on this thread for a while.
I feel like I posted this already but I don't feel like going through all the pages to verify so I'll just post it for the first time/or again.

I love the lyrics to Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer" but I think the actual song is blah.



This dude from American Idol about 10 years ago or so I don't remember, did one of the best covers I've heard. Just made it his own as they say.

 

On the R&B ish side of things.

I always felt MC Hammer's version of "Have you seen her" was better than the original by The Chi-lites





Also Dru Hill's version of "The Love we had stays on my mind" just eeks past the original by The Dells (Sisqo took it to a higher level)

 

I LOVE Kate Bush. She's phenomenal....but Maxwell is also a brilliant singer and I think his version of "This Woman's Work" is better

 

Bruce is another one I LOVE and "Dancing in the dark" is a classic. Here are two good covers that might be better I dunno. I love them all.

 

Lastly, following up from the last video I posted by Cannons, they seem to just sprinkle gold dust on every cover they take on.
"Sex on Fire" by Kings of Leon has a bunch of covers and most are good-great but this one is just perfection to me. Also, if you haven't listened to Cannons before, check them out. I think they've put out two albums since they started out and they're pretty dope to me. (The lead singer is also kinda pretty so that helps lol). If you're a fan of that Indiepop/electropop vibe then you'll like them.

 

1962


1960


1959

 

can't decide if this is brilliant or cringe, and i'm a big Cabrel fan:

 

She highlighted the side of this song that I'd never noticed. Brilliant.

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Heard it in the truck this morning:

Dead Flowers by the Stones is better than Dead Flowers by Townes

 

I've always liked the Lee DeWyze version. Here is a very nice cover of it by Shawn Colvin and Allison Krause.

 

also with Jerry Douglas.