I’m 24 and I wasn’t even aware there was a cover of Free Fallin’ the Petty version is the only version I’d heard until today.

@SuprousOxide

10 ай бұрын

I don't get his criticism of Petty's version. What makes him think the "good girl" is secretly evil?

@taflhols278

10 ай бұрын

I'm 59 and have never heard Mayor's version. Had to check it out. It's not better.

@Quinctili

10 ай бұрын

John Farnham and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra "Help" by the Beatles, and it's waaaay better. Kasey Chambers, live, Newcastle version, "Lose Yourself" by Eminem and it's not even close. It's her song now. Stay with it, all 8 minutes. John Farnham, Jimmy Barnes and Diesel, on the Hey Hey It's Saturday show doing "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby", originally by many various artists. Neil Young, "All Along The Watchtower" with Booker T and the MG's, but ONLY the 10.54 minute version Not sure if it's better, but it's a different and terrific version. Vanessa Amarosi, Dave Stewart, "Natural Woman", originally a Carole King song.

@avery61

10 ай бұрын

yeah I quit listening after he flubbed the Tom Petty version. Petty is much much better.

@SuprousOxide

10 ай бұрын

Went and listened to Mayer's version, and couldn't finish it. That voice is horrible.

I think both versions of Mad World are complimentary. The original is a panic attack, not wanting to be a part of the monotony, and crying out while actively fighting it. The cover is resigned to the state of everything, and feels somber and defeated. I think both work back to back really well.

@sundoga4961

10 ай бұрын

Agreed. Even as a die-hard Tears for Fears fan, I deeply value Jules' reimagining of Mad World, bringing out aspects TfF never acted upon.

@lindacondray7918

10 ай бұрын

I also love Curt Smith and his daughter’s version recorded during the lock down. What was going on in the world really put this piece in yet another perspective.

@stevenmalham2234

10 ай бұрын

I should have written this. Very thoughtful analysis!

@sadmac356

7 ай бұрын

I also read it as an "I'm laughing because the alternative is crying"

@A_Andromeda_a

7 ай бұрын

I honestly think the same thing

I’m not a boomer and I didn’t even know John Mayer covered Free Fallin… just know Tom Perry’s original version lol

I didn't even know that John Meyer covered it. Me and my dad always knew it as a Tom Petty song

@deementia6796

10 ай бұрын

Same here. I was like, "Taylor Swift's ex recorded a cover version of a Tom Petty song? Interesting!" LOL

@jayplay8140

10 ай бұрын

Same here, and I'm nothing near like a boomer. I've heard of John Meyer's name but I couldn't name a single song of his

@gregvs.theworld451

10 ай бұрын

That John Meyer cover awakened a core emeory in me. I looked it up and when the chorus hit I just said "Wait... I've actually heard this before. Not sure where, but I do know this version."

@GassersGhost

10 ай бұрын

@@deementia6796 this has NOTHING to do with Her. Why even bring it up. It's like, "Holy shit man, JFK listened to Elvis once" Woooooooww.

@michaelbeasley5783

10 ай бұрын

Wow. I didn't know Mayer covered either. Relieved to know I'm not the only one. No slight to Mayer--a virtuoso guitarist--but the Petty song is so classic I didn't imagine a cover could do any justice to it.

In re: Hallelujah - everyone must also hear K. D. Lang’s version.

I actually love both versions of Proud Mary, both are amazing!

@petertrudelljr

10 ай бұрын

no comments on the Ike and Tina Turner version? I actually rank that one higher.

@daviebananas1735

9 ай бұрын

@@petertrudelljrSurely that’s the only definitive version?

KD Laing's interpretation of Hallelujah is other worldly.

@jimsanderson4180

10 ай бұрын

So true! The Meyer version is ok but Lang’s is far better.

@ser132

10 ай бұрын

yes, kd Lang's, and Alison Crowe's versions are my favourites

I'm surprised you didn't mention there was a go between for Twist and Shout. That was the Isley Brothers. That was the version the Beatles were emulating. That's where they "borrowed" the harmonized "oooh's" from and put it into just about all their early rockers.

@satiricalhaz-homeofbanter4371

8 ай бұрын

Came here to say this

Rest in Peace to the icon, the legend, Tina Turner 🫶

I love this series & how you cover the differences between versions! Very well written

While we're talking about Tom Petty covers, the Barnyard movie of all damn things has a fantastic cover of Won't Back Down, and it's pretty powerful within the context of the movie.

Jeff Buckley also sung a cover of bob dylan’s “Mama, You’ve Been on My Mind” which is really stunning. Jeff had such a timeless voice

@acrouton1394

8 ай бұрын

yeah but absolutely no one thinks jeff’s version is better than dylan’s lol

Everything I hear The Beatles “Twist and Shoot” I think of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”. Always makes me smile.

Free Fallin definitely a Tom Petty song I can’t stand the John Mayer version but that may just be cuz I can’t stand John Mayer

@ninaperegrym8975

10 ай бұрын

as a taylor swift fan i totally agree

Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds. Turned a great Dylan number into a rock staple, also inventing a subgenre of music (Jangle Pop) in the process

@Mrbeahz1

10 ай бұрын

"Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Bells of Rhymney", covered by the Byrds and originally done by Pete Seeger.

@FerdinandCesarano

10 ай бұрын

Don't forget Shatner's version. On second thought, definitely do forget it.

@michaelbeasley5783

10 ай бұрын

Actually, imho, Dylan's "My Back Pages" was made eminently listenable by The Byrds also.

@13blackcatzzz

10 ай бұрын

Check out Melanie's cover of Mr. Tambourine Man. It's heart breaking. Also her cover of Ruby Tuesday is amazing!

I just remembered Limp Bizkit's cover of Behind Blue Eyes, originally by The Who, which I feel like not a lot of people know about

@ala0284

10 ай бұрын

Surely not, the Who’s version is on one of the all time great rock albums whilst Limp Bizkit are everything wrong with that era of music

@TrentKallust

10 ай бұрын

That might've been the one thing Durst contributed to music history that I absolutely have respect for. As controversial and pretty fairly maligned as Limp Bizkit is, that was a surprisingly solid cover.

@fotis1964

10 ай бұрын

Who is Limp Bizkits?

It's weird to hear someone saying Tears for Fears' Mad World is the overshadowed one.

Santana's "Oye Como Va" is one of my favorite covers of all time.

@Gottenhimfella

10 ай бұрын

Don't forget that Black Magic Woman (which often segues into Oye Como Va) is also a cover

@eeph4eva

10 ай бұрын

She's not there, too. Way better than the zombies version imo

@billybandyk0720

10 ай бұрын

Likewise w/"Hold On" (originally done by Ian Thomas (best known 4 "Painted Ladies" & as the younger brother of Dave "Doug McKenzie" Thomas)). However; I prefer Ian's original vs. Santana's cover.

CCR's Proud Mary was No. 2 on the Billboard charts. Ike Turner's version reached No. 4

@daviebananas1735

9 ай бұрын

Tina still made the song hers.

Big Star's "In The Street" (The theme song from That 70s Show) which was covered by Cheap Trick. They actually did use Big Star's version in the earlier seasons. For me, both versions are great but I'm a big BIG fan of Big Star. Truly underrated band.

@depdava1

10 ай бұрын

As much as I love Cheap Trick, the original is solidly better.

The Clash's cover of 'I fought the law' is a perfect cover, different than the original, could be an original, and a great improvement on the original. The lyrics also fit perfectly for a punk band like The Clash

@SuprousOxide

10 ай бұрын

Dead Kennedys also have a great version, turning it into a song about the murder of Harvey Milk, and the killer getting a lesser charge than murder (I fought the law and I won)

I love cover songs - everything from reinvented mega-hits to experimental versions gone awry. As a result I’ve lived this series you’ve released about reinvented covers more popular than the original. There are some that I’m surprised that didn’t make your first three episodes: If you start chanting Hooga-Chaka Hooga-Chaka you might be Hooked On a Feeling, and it is the Blue Suede version that covers the B.J. Thomas original in a very different way. A reggae reimagining of Neil Diamond’s Red Red Wine had UB40 playing on those hot summer 80’s nights. Barenaked Ladies outdo the original Bruce Cockburn version of Lovers in a Dangerous Time with their fun harmonies and the long bows on the cello really set it apart. If you had the Friends soundtrack CD in your car in the 90’s you were probably singing along to Hootie and the Blowfish singing I Go Blind. This one stays pretty true to the 54-40 original, but popularity of Hootie and of Friends certainly make this the better known version.

This may be a niche pull, but the Flaming Lips cover of Can't Get You Outta My Head by Kylie Minogue is a masterpiece.

@user-yx2xm1bg6j

10 ай бұрын

I love that too

The Beatles - Help vs John Farnham - Help. 'Farnsey' aka 'The Voice' takes this one. One of the greatest voices to ever.

here in Canada the Cochrane version of Highway is equally as well-known as the Rascal Flatts version.

Ike and Tina really covered the Checkmates version of Proud Mary. The Checkmates put out their version in 1969 while Ike and Tina released theirs in 1971. So Ike and Tina's tremendous version was a cover of a cover of the song.

I love this series! Some of the covers I think are the defining version are Jose Gonzalez’s version of “Heartbeats” by The Knife, and Eva Cassidy/Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s cover of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”, and Rage Against The Machine did a fantastic album of covers on Renegades, the pick of them being their version of “The Ghost Of Tom Joad” by The Boss

Reba McEntire's version of Bobbie Gentry's "Fancy" is probably the best known, but the Geraldine Fibbers do an amazing version with wild fiddle that really leans into the creepiness of it.

I like Tina's Proud Mary okay. However I will forever ADORE CCR's original.

It’s a crime you haven’t mentioned William Shatner’s cover of Common People.

I do like the thing that Tears for Fears' original is Mad World, Jules' cover is Sad World... definitely brings what I like in a cover - doing something different and recontextualising the original

I don’t trust people that think John Mayer’s version of Free Fallin’ is better than Tom Petty’s.

"Always something there to remind me" by Naked Eyes is one of the best covers ever.

I'm a big fan of covers and enjoy getting some history on these songs, especially ones where the covers are the more well known versions. Loving these videos and would be very happy to see a part 4!

This is a really niche example but Mitski’s cover of One Direction’s Fireproof completely transforms the song. She sounds restless, like she’s been laying down trying to fall asleep for 2 whole hours but it’s just not happening so she resorts to humming as a last ditch effort. Meanwhile, the 1D boys sound relaxed, like they’re having the chillest afternoon of their life. You don’t really buy when they go “I think I’m gonna lose my mind” but when Mitski sings it you don’t even question it.

Fleetwood Mac's Black Magic Woman, Santana's cover takes it to a whole new level.

A suggestion for part 4: Blinded by the Light, original by Bruce Springsteen, cover by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

@FerdinandCesarano

10 ай бұрын

This is the best suggestion.

@marlaerwin3610

10 ай бұрын

It was YEARS before I learned this was a Bruce Springsteen song.

@depdava1

10 ай бұрын

Manfred Mann's only other hit (As far as I know) was also penned by Springsteen. Spirits in the Night. Great song.

Beatles’ “Words of Love” is a favorite of mine.

I think there is a subtle difference here: some covers are so good that the song has shifted “ownership”, while others are simply nice versions. Hurt, Tainted Love, Hallelujah, Girls just wanna have fun, Nothing compared 2 U, I will always love you, etc. are examples of songs where the identity has more or less shifted away from the original artist.

The Carpenter's version of California Dreamin' is still my favorite...

That The Mamas & the Papas covered their own song reminds me of Springsteen and Because the Night which he wrote for Patti Smith.

I feel that Petty in the original actually captures what you attribute to Mayer‘s version, which I actually find pretty saccharine.

I had zero idea Mayer even covered Petty. So this was a new one to me.

@daviebananas1735

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, this seemed like a personal take. I’d never even heard of the awful John Mayer version.

Here is one for you. Original - The Beatles - Help Cover - John Farnham - Help PS: You will need to each version of the song on this one and please use Johns Farnhams live version with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. This is one of those Dolly/Whitney ones but raised to the power of 10. Don't skimp on either version, you will be depriving your subs.

@phillippatryndal4255

9 ай бұрын

The obvious other main cover of a Beatles song, is With a Little Help from My Friends by Joe Cocker, ofc.

i could listen to hours of this topic

So many covers of Hallelujah that it emphasizes how much of a powerful poetic force Cohen was with those lyrics! My personal favorite is Damien Rice live who covered it at a Leonard Cohen tribute.

Nah bro Rufus Wainwright has owned Hallelujah ever since Shrek dropped

@2-Way_Intersection

10 ай бұрын

fr, surprised that didnt come up here

@TheGameMaster127

10 ай бұрын

Isn't it John Cale in the movie? Wainwright is only on the soundtrack, right?

@Madkalibyr

10 ай бұрын

True, also love his version of “across the universe” from the I Am Sam soundtrack

@mikeroni

10 ай бұрын

@@TheGameMaster127 never realized that, any idea why?

@my_name_sucks

10 ай бұрын

Disagree, but I like Jeff’s voice more than Rufus's, so I might be a little biased here

Great content as always.

Maybe it's not mainstream famous enough for this list, but when I think of songs like this, the first one to come to mind is the Bauhaus cover of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust.

@alanmackie7012

10 ай бұрын

It was a hit in the UK and had better production. Bowie's version sounds a bit flat now.

Wondering what y'all think of The Bangles amped up rock version of Simon and Garfunkel "Hazy Shade of Winter?" In my view, one of the slickest and coolest covers ever. Love it. Thoughts? Be well.

@CornbreadEarl

10 ай бұрын

That whole Less than Zero sdtk was 🔥

@13blackcatzzz

10 ай бұрын

I was coming to comment on that. S&G's is perfectly fine, but the ladies just made it totally kick ass! Shredding guitar lick, hard driving drum beat, oh man, it's perfection!

@michaelbeasley5783

10 ай бұрын

@@13blackcatzzz Agree. TOTALLY!.

@jkrissyla

10 ай бұрын

Did not know the Bangles version was a cover! Love Gerald Way’s cover of it.

CCR’s Proud Mary evokes a gently moving steamboat. The cover turns it into a speedboat.

I remember hearing All Coming Back To Me Now by Pandora's Box and really liking it and listening to it all the time, but learned that the Celine Dion cover was the more popular one, bc it show up first when I typed in the title. Whenever I hear the cover, it sounds weird hearing her vocals on top of an instrumental I know really well. I think both of them are good, but I like the atmosphere of the original more 🖤💙

the vid i’ve been waiting for

I know Celine Dion's cover was the biggest seller, but for me, Laura Branigans version of The Power of Love is the definitive! She is raw, earthy, and powerful. Someone else in the comments mentioned The Bangles Hazy Shade of Winter which absolutely kicks a$s!! And I suggest to everyone to check out Melanie's covers of Mr. Tambourine Man (heartbreaking) and Ruby Tuesday (sublime).

@mals86

9 ай бұрын

Original Hazy Shade of Winter is pretty awesome -- but yeah, I have a preference for the Bangles' version.

@TheSadlerandrea

9 ай бұрын

I never knew Laura Branigan other than Gloria and Self-control!

Dolly Parton did a cover of Collective Soul's "Shine". Both version so wonderfully different

@ShadowOfCicero

10 ай бұрын

Did you ever hear her cover of Stairway to Heaven? I, for one, loved it.

@mals86

9 ай бұрын

Just went and checked that out, and yeah, pretty great. Thanks!

A few exemples on the top of my head Fleetwood Mac-Black Magic Woman covered by Santana Randy Newman-You can leave your hat on covered by Joe Cocker

One of my favorite banda is Disturbed. My son introduced them to me with the song 'Shout' a cover tune originally done by Tears for Fears.

The best thing that can happen to a musician is that someone else makes his song a hit. The royalties flow and he doesn't even have to go on tour himself.

Tom Petty original is extremely popular. It may have less views here but it’s the only version heard out in the world. I’m a JM fan and didn’t know about his cover. Also you skipped the Isley Brothers hit version of Twist and shout. Suggestion: 2 Beatles songs completely taken by other artists: A Little Help From my Friends by Joe Cocker & Got to Get You Into My Life by Earth Wind & Fire (arguably the top)

Oh, 311's cover of Love Song by The Cure. It's really nice.

For UK millennials, The Tide is High = Atomic Kitten. I didn't even know it was a cover!

Jeff Buckleys cover of Bob Dylan’s mama you’ve been on my mind is incredible, my favourite Buckley song

Young Man Blues -The Who explode Mose Allison Jumpin' Jack Flash - Peter Frampton outrolls the Stones 2000 Man - Ace Frehley on lead vocal in the Kiss cover Subterranean Homesick Blues -Red Hot Chili Peppers do Dylan I Can't Make You Love Me -George Michael's cover of Bonnie Raitt drips with a level of pathos not seen or heard since Michael Crawford defined Andrew Lloyd Weber's Phantom. Tears of a Clown -The English Beat gets Smokey with it. Hung on You -The Romantics do the Kinks better You could do a whole episode just on the songs that Van Halen has covered. My nominee would be You're No Good, for the male/female difference between David Lee Roth and Linda Ronstadt. Congrats, Alfo Media. You opened a whole case of worm cans.

K.D Lang’s cover is the definitive version give it a listen…..tears

@robertholmes1743

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely! Hallelujah will never be sung better than she does it!

Love these videos

"Hey Joe". There are a LOT of covers of it, but while the Jimi cover was great and can claim to be "definitive", the Deep Purple cover was EVEN BETTER.

Keep going, I'd like to see a number 4

There’s Falling In Reverse’s version of Last Resort to consider- it’s astounding

Thanks for the awesome content! Have you talked about the 8000 different versions of "Heard it Through the Grapevine" yet? Motown recycled the hell out of that song with Gladys, Smoky, Marvin, and I'm sure I'm forgetting others. Even CCR got a hold of that one.

@SuperMrMarmiteMan

10 ай бұрын

Fogerty's guitar on CCR's version is 👌🏻

@wanna-be-thinker2377

10 ай бұрын

Another Motown is "Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)". Eddie Holland recorded it first, and got bypassed by Kim Weston, The Isley Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, etc. And while I wouldn't call it supassing/bypassing the original, there's a song with two covers on equal footing with the original. "Please, Mr. Postman": first by the Marvellettes, then the Beatles, and then the Carpenters.

@wanna-be-thinker2377

10 ай бұрын

Gladys and the Pips also cover two songs: "Everybody need Love", originally by Mary Wells, and "Midnight Train to Georgia", originally "Midnight Plane to Houston," Jim Weatherly.

The first time I heard Alone was when John Stamos sang it. Today I learned! I loved the show Dreams and would watch it religiously when I was a kid 😍

You rock!!

I wanted to shout two from Australia that are pretty decent examples, or at least from my perspective. Fall At Your Feet, originally by Crowded House was covered by Australian indie rock band Boy & Bear to the point I feel like I know it almost more as a song by Boy & Bear rather than Crowded House. While both charted about the same here in Australia, 31 the peak for the original and 34 for the cover, the cover also came 5th in the Hottest 100, Triple J's annual vote for the best songs of the year, which unfortunately wasn't doing a yearly countdown in 91 when the original came out so IDK if it's easy to judge that. On the topic of Triple J, Baby Come Back by Player is a track which I think a whole generation of people in Australia think is a song straight up by the Aussie psych rock group Ocean Alley. I genuinely didn't realise that they did this song as a Like a Version cover and it wasn't their own song at all. The original is still good, with that kind of 70s ballad rock like a song like The Pina Colada Song, but god damn does Ocean Alley's cover just update and give it a fuller life.

Da king is back baby he neva miss

I think Chris Stapleton, George Jones, and the OG David Allen Coe with Tennessee Whiskey is a crazy cover story example, especially the weight Jones had back then and how popular Stapleton’s version made it. Definitely justifying DAC’s You Never Even Called Me By Your Name

The algorithm just gifted me your channel and im so happy. Id love to see you talk about the Alien Ant Farm version of Smooth Criminal

Love this series! Though I'd also be curious to see a list of well known remixes that are more popular than their original songs?

If y'all do decide to continue this series, I think that Vanilla Fudge's cover of You Keep Me Hangin' On by The Supremes is an absolutely amazing psychedelic rock masterpiece.

In a similar situation to the Mamas and The Papas with California Dreamin, Dancing in the Moonlight was written by Sherman Kelly and performed with the band Boffalango in 1970, later on Kelly would join the band King Harvest and help create the iconic and famous cover we know today in 1972. If you go even further down the rabbit hole, a small band by the name of High Broom created the first official cover of Dancing in the Moonlight based on the Boffalango version in 1970 before the 1972 King Harvest rendition.

@mcqueen8737

10 ай бұрын

White rabbit and Somebody to love by Jefferson Airplane are also examples of the same kind of thing.

Cake's cover of war pigs is amazing, the initial driving base line makes you feel the urgency of war like there is a ticking time bomb. when the brass comes in it feels like a a funeral trumpet for a fallen soldier. some may say it doesn't surpass black sabbath but I listen to this cover more than the original.

The horse may be old, but its certainly not dead! I really like your take on these and i'd love to see other stuff from you, but Please do continue with "the covers.." As an old guy its become kind of a challenge to see if I can remember both the original and the cover. One of my favorites has got to be "The sound of Silence"!

Funny thing, I only found Jeff Buckley's version of "Hallelujah", because it was featured on the House MD soundtrack. By that time I was already familiar with three diffrent versions by Cohen. I still like all of them. I would even go as war and say that I love all renditions of Hallelujah I ever come across. It's a really powerfull song and I've yet to come along one of it's many many many cover versions that do it dirty.

@snerdterguson

10 ай бұрын

I love how many versions there are of that wonderful song. As I recall, Cohen just kept writing verses for the song over the years. I've heard there was something like 90 verses, and Cohen could do a completely different version every time he sang it.

Keep flogging this horse….it’s pretty fun! So many more to go: Sid doing My Way The Bangles -Hazy Shade The Clash/Dead Kennedys - I fought the law INXS - good times The XX - teardrops Flog on!!!

was really hoping for a Jose Feliciano shoutout when you mentioned California Dreamin cause his cover of the song is honestly incredible

The Beach Boys also did a cover of "California Dreamin'" which is very good. Maybe another one you can look at is the two different versions of "Misty" - the slower version by Johnny Mathias and the one by Ray Stevens (which won a Grammy Award).

One idea I'd like to suggest is "horror(?) stories in music" which you bringing up the mamas and the papas made me think about

Check out the original of Carlos Santana's Black Magic Woman done by it's writer Pete Green when he was with Fleetwood Mac in it's preStevie blues phase. If one is going to do a cover, they better take that song and **own it** Carlos does just that with this blusey classic.

YES, MAD WORLD GOT IN, YEEEAAAAHHHH!!! i can die happy :)

I prefer Cochrane's version of "Life is a Highway" by far. And yes, the harmonica ads a lot to the song! "Hallelujah" is a tough one. I actually prefer the dry delivery that Cohen gives to the song, but there is no denying that Buckley's version is more ethereal and fits the lyrics better. Six of one, half a dozen of the other I guess. Tina Turner..."Proud Mary"...no question! (And I love Credence.) Great job on this series, mate. Would love to see some more!

Other covers that surpassed the original, and became a song's definitive version by taking the song to a new level of greatness: Van Halen - "You Really Got Me" (the Kinks) Quiet Riot - "Cum On Feel the Noize" (Slade) Kiss - "King of the Nighttime World" (Hollywood Stars) UB40 - "Red, Red Wine" (Neil Diamond) Metallica - "Whiskey in the Jar" (Thin Lizzy; traditional Irish song) The Who - "Summertime Blues" (Eddie Cochran) Nirvana - "The Man Who Sold the World" (David Bowie) [Edit: I see that this was mentioned already.] Edited to add: The Black Crowes - "Hard to Handle" (Otis Redding) Peter Frampton - "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" (Stevie Wonder) And I want to second another one that's been mentioned already, Manfred Mann's cover of Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light". That's probably the best example of all time.

@Gremlinsfan40

9 ай бұрын

I'd like to add another van Halen cover: oh, pretty woman (originally by Roy orbison)

"Boomers stay mad I guess"? I'm just at the Cusp between X and Millenial, a big second Mayer remake fan (the bluesy not the country one) and was around for the Petty original release and the MTV video and I'm here to say , " Son , just don't"

I see Jeff Buckley i click

Part 4 please😊 with Everybody's gotta learn some time by the Korgis and Beck

Dude, you gotta talk 'bout "You Really Got Me"

Let's not forget to add the Joe Cocker cover of Wlth a Little Help from My Friends (Beatles) Another notable is Jennifer Warnes versions of First We Take Manhatten and Like a Bird om the Wire both by Leonard Cohen,

Best example I can think of is Bette Davis Eyes, by Kim Carnes. The original, by Jackie DeShannom , was a honkytonk piano country song.

Don't know if it's been covered already but the absolutely amazing baker street by Gerry Rafferty and the foo fighters cover are both good

MOAR...please

Can't believe you didn't include Hendrix's cover of Dylan's "All Around The Watchtower. "

@jkrissyla

10 ай бұрын

That was in part one.

Add to the list Song Bird: Fleetwood Mac / Eve Cassidy Lady: Kenny Rogers / Lionel RIchie (Richie wrote it for KR and later recorded it himself.)

another good area to explore in this same vein would be covers that cross genre lines. over the years there have been a lot of really powerful songs that were covered, either very well, or horribly by a singer or band from a very different genre. often the original is forgotten because the younger crowd, who may not have ever heard the original at all, consider the song as belonging to the singer they are more familiar with. some very good examples of this were Elvis singing (Blue Swede Shoes/hound dog/suspicious minds/are you lonesome tonight etc) Whitney Houston singing I will always love you ( so many people did not know Dolly Parton not only wrote it, but took it to the Country charts not once, but twice in two separate decades) Mark Chestnut singing I dont want to miss a thing. I really could go on. all of these started in genres so completely different from where they were covered, that a lot of people never heard the originals.