Best cover versions

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Which songs are way better than the originals (in your opinion, of course!)

I LOVE Boys Town Gang version of Can't Take My Eyes (one of my favourite songs) but no one else seems to know it.
The official video is absolutely amazing 🤣
God bless the 80s!

Just spreading the love...

Imelda May, maybe??

Yes @GlitchStitch. Agree. Both versions are great. Cyndi also does a fabulous cover of Prince’s When You Were Mine.

Ruby Tuesday by Melanie as apposed to the Stones version.

Not a cover version but Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio.

DragonForce (a metal band) did a cover version of My Heart Will Go On.

Completely changes it some a sickly mess to something very upbeat. Plus hearing thousands of metal fans singing along is something different.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LHMB1KtLLyI&pp=ygUfbXkgaGVhcnQgd2lsbCBnbyBvbiBkcmFnb25mb3JjZQ%3D%3D

Nirvana, the man who sold the world their version on unplugged.
Also leona Lewis, her version of run.

Only cover I can think of better than the original is Sound of Silence - Disturbed.

The one I can think of that equalled the original was The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana.

me too, and i’m a huge Rod fan
Have a listen to the 4 part harmony version of “ to where you are” ( Josh Groban) by G4, gives me goosebumps9

One of my faves, Rod Stewart once apparently said Kelly Jones sounds more like him than he does
Saw them singing it together once it was unbelievably good!

Killing me softly… The Fugees

Mumford and sons - the boxer

But swings and roundabouts, because this cover of Coolio's I'll See You When You Get There is head and shoulders above his version - it truly brings tears to my eyes:

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I think Prince is rather like Bob Dylan in that his skills very much lay in writing the songs!

@IfYouPutASausageInItItsNotAViennetta , I don't understand why you say 'swings and roundabouts', it seems very dismissive.

Sia - California Dreaming

Baffling that anyone convinced that guy he could sing 😆

Are you kidding? Have you seen Prince perform??

Florence and the Machine: You got the Love. Much better than Candi Staton.
Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Judy Collins

Checking in - have a few to add later.

It's not a direct cover but Fatboy Slim's "Praise You" is based on Camille Yarbrough's 'Take Yo' Praise' which is a classic gospel song.

Wonderful tonight - Damage
Like a prayer - Miley Cyrus.

Placebos version is stunning, really haunting.

Falling in Reverse covering Last Resort by Papa Roach never really heard the lyrics till i heard this version.

Wonderwall and Party Like it's 1999 by Mike Flowers Pops

Re-doing them as 60s easy listening was actually genius!

I'm not generally a metal head, but do tend to like a metal cover, including Sound of Silence. Metal tends to add depth and avoid kareoke copy-cat territory.

Generally changing genre is the key to a sucessful cover.

Tears for Fears loved the Gary Jules Mad World. When they were asked to do a cover for a session they re-did Mad World Gary Jules style.

Eleanor Rigby - Godhead
Feeling Good - Muse
Another vote for Sound of Silence - Disturbed. What a voice!

Loads of others will occur to me as soon I as post.

Another vote for Sound of Silence - Disturbed. What a voice

Absolutely, his voice is amazing. I read somewhere that’s it’s the only song (as in popular song, not a vocal training one), that has the singer use every single note. No idea if actually true but he does have amazing range and that adds so much to it.