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!

Simple Twist Of Fate - Joan Baez
MacArthur Park - Four Tops
A Case Of You - k d lang
Until It's Time For You To Go - Elvis Presley
Hard Candy Christmas - Tracey Thorn

That’s fighting talk! I’ll reluctantly acknowledge, though, that Robert Plant and the Band Of Joy do a good version of “House of Cards”. Bonnie Raitt’s “Dimming of the Day” is worth a listen, too.

(Oh, and I just knew some cloth-eared philistine would mention the Disturbed version of “Sound of Silence” It always comes up, and it’s always so wrong.)

Placebos version of running up that hill

Dinosaur Jr’s version of Just alike heaven although I do live alThe Cure’s version too.

Thea Gilmore's version of Ever Fallen In Love and Amy McDonalds version of Dancing in the Dark.

Bauhaus version of Ziggy Stardust (and I’m a huge Bowie fan)

Frankie Goes to Hollywood Born to Run

I can think of a few. Tainted Love by Soft Cell - I do like the original by Gloria Jones but I think Soft Cells version is even better. I didn't actually find out that it was a cover version until about 10 years ago! I prefer The Stranglers version of Walk on by to Dionne Warwicks original, and I think The Pet Shop Boys version of Always on my mind is much better than Elvis's.

The Wilson sisters plus Jason Bonham plus about a hundred others live version of Stairway to Heaven, live in front of the then POTUS at the Kennedy centre back on 2012.

Spiderbait's Black Betty and Screaming Jet's Shivers

Status Quo's version of Rockin' All Over The World
Van Halen's version of You Really Got Me
Brian May's version of Since You've Been Gone (specifically live at the Brixton Academy in the 90s)

I think for me, the best cover is Eva Cassidy's version of Field of Gold

Walk On By has been mentioned - I love the Helen Shapiro version

Linkin Park's version of Rolling in the Deep. I love the Adele original but Linkin Park is more my type of music.

The Weather Station cover of Joy Division's Transmission.

Her Songbird is very good too although I do love the original Fleetwood Mac version.

Yes!

Came to say this, yes!

no restrictions!

All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix
Sunshine of Your Love - I will take both the Spanky Wilson version, and Ella Fitzgerald's over Cream.

Spirit in the Sky. I much prefer Dr and the Medics version.

Hallelujah I like Jeff Buckleys version ❤️

The best cover of Hallelujah I ever heard was by Lorna Brooks at a concert in North London, sometime around the millennium.

George Michael - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

It was compared to The Communards version imo.

Walk on By - Stranglers
Don't Leave Me This Way- Communards
The Man Who Sold The World- Nirvana
Valerie- Amy Winehouse (love the video too)
Easy and I Started A Joke- Faith No More

I’ve just downloaded it- amazing version!