Which songs do you prefer a cover version to the original?

[BeardySchnauzer]

I’ll start with Phil Collins version of True Colors

and the teenager in me loved Guns and Roses version of Live and Let Die!

I prefer The First Wives Club version of You Don’t Own Me as opposed to Lesley Gore version.

Also prefer Lauryn Hill’s, Killing Me Softly.

Tainted love by Marilyn Manson

Boys of Summer by The Ataris

Tainted Love by Imelda May

Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley

Noooo!!
How to murder a class Motown record

Definitely Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley

Always on my mind by Pet Shop Boys

Not sure if it’s better than the original - but I have a fondess for Joss Sone’s version of Fell In Love With a Girl (Boy)

I Heard it Through the Grapevine by Mavin Gaye

Suspcious Minds by Fine Young Cannibals

Agree that the best covers add something different rather than just a straight copy

its a bit depressing when you remember the original of a cover of a cover

Nirvana's cover of Bowie's man who sold the world. I'm a big Bowie fan but this cover just hits differently

The best cover version ever made was We Can Work It Out by Stevie Wonder. I will be taking no questions at this time.

Gun’s Word Up
Johnny Cash’s Hurt
The Fall’s version of Lost In Music, and also their version of Victoria even though I do ADORE The Kinks
Soft Cell’s Tainted Love
Echo & The Bunnymen’s People Are Strange

I agree.

And another, Korns word up

I Will Survive by Cake. Brings a whole new angle to the original. He sounds a lot less convincing than Gloria Gaynor

Aretha Franklin singing a cover of just about anything - respect, I say a little prayer, bridge over troubled water, let it be.

Bastilles version of of the night

Cissy Houston ..I just don't know what to do with myself.
As opposed to Dusty Springfield's.

I love Lulu's version - not more than the original, but almost as much
Edit: just found out Bowie is the backing vocalist on this!

The two of them literally had a physical fight over that song, he was furious that if did so well for her. Surely you’d be happy with the royalties?!

No Doubt’s It’s My Life, Lady Marmalade from Moulin Rouge, Guns n Roses Live and Let Die and Whitney’s I Will Always Love You are all better than the originals IMO.

Nirvana's The Man Who Sold The World

Gillian welch and David Rawlings do an amazing cover of black star by Radiohead. Excellent dobro solo in the middle

And There’s a cover of Bjork’s Joga I once heard on a tv show and it stopped me in my tracks. Georgi kay I think it was.

Natalie Merchant's Space Oddity

The celebrity bbc version of perfect day! Another for always on my mind, nothing compares to you and Mariah Carey’s version of I’ll be there and Whitney Houston’s I will always love you

Soft Cell's Tainted Love of course.

Carol King did a cover of her own song 'Will you still love me tomorrow' (on the Tapestry album) which I much prefer to the Shirelle's version from years before.

Love is all around-Wet wet wet.
I will always love you-Whitney Houston.

Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah.
Katie Melua's Just Like Heaven.