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Cover versions better than the original 10:42 - Jun 6 with 4349 views

Jealous guy by Roxy Music

So good I actually thought it was the original

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Cover versions better than the original on 07:45 - Jun 7 with 783 views

Zx1988

And one I never even realised was a cover:

Originally on Springsteen's debut album, along with Blinded by the Light, but in a completely different style.

This version though, in an arena, with 75,000 people singing along...

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Cover versions better than the original on 07:56 - Jun 7 with 748 views

WeWereZombies

The original was in Italian by Pino Donaggio, does this count ?

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Cover versions better than the original on 08:06 - Jun 7 with 736 views

Zx1988

Cover versions better than the original on 07:56 - Jun 7 by WeWereZombies
The original was in Italian by Pino Donaggio, does this count ?

If it does, then we can go in the other direction as well:

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Cover versions better than the original on 08:23 - Jun 7 with 716 views

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Cover versions better than the original on 07:44 - Jun 7 by You_Bloo_Right

Saw The Unthanks deliver a great cover of 'Shipobuilding' a couple of weeks ago, Rachel and Becky singing backing vocals to Adrian McNally taking the lead. Anyway, another entirely predictable cover by them but I had no knowledge of Davey Dodds, a West Country folk musician who turned the nursery rhyme into a song https://www.daveydodds.com/abo

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Cover versions better than the original on 08:33 - Jun 7 with 706 views

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Cover versions better than the original on 15:12 - Jun 6 by Bugs
PMJ does loads of fantastic covers, but this one really stands out, as the original is bloody awful, and this is superb.

I could PMJ spam this thread all day!

But I will restrict myself to these:

Shows that Wannabe is a really well structured song.

And

The lead singer, Puddles Pity Party, has an incredible ability to convey emotional nuance in a song.

He also sang with Postmodern Jukebox on this, which was used as a John Lewis Christmas Advert track:

Cover versions better than the original on 08:54 - Jun 7 with 695 views

WeWereZombies

Cover versions better than the original on 08:06 - Jun 7 by Zx1988
If it does, then we can go in the other direction as well:

Poor Ray Davies, people keep on making a decent fist of covering his songs...

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Cover versions better than the original on 08:59 - Jun 7 with 685 views

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Cover versions better than the original on 10:23 - Jun 7 with 643 views

urbanpenguin

Cover versions better than the original on 19:35 - Jun 6 by thecheek
The original got so overplayed it became annoying but this is a thing of beauty Also

I think this is better than Costello though

Edit: I clearly responded to the wrong post, I find it nearly impossible to use twtd on a mobile.... Obviously this was meant to be in response to Elvis Costello covering I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

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Cover versions better than the original on 10:25 - Jun 7 with 641 views

urbanpenguin

Cover versions better than the original on 16:46 - Jun 6 by Vincakes
Muse - Feeling good

Yes it's far better than the original, but next to Nina Simone it just comes across as entirely performative emotion and cliche.

Cover versions better than the original on 10:45 - Jun 7 with 619 views

urbanpenguin

My suggestions, sorry if they're already mentioned.

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And perhaps my favourite two examples of the genre:

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Cover versions better than the original on 13:48 - Jun 7 with 568 views

Freddies_Ears

Ever so slightly tongue-in-cheek, but Neal Morse's 8-minute prog epic of Bridge Over Troubled Water is utterly superb:

Cover versions better than the original on 15:16 - Jun 7 with 551 views

baxterbasics

This one might be considered blasphemous, don't care:

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Cover versions better than the original on 16:13 - Jun 7 with 515 views

vilanovablue

Cover versions better than the original on 18:21 - Jun 7 with 460 views

brazil1982

Originally a Prince song:

Cover versions better than the original on 18:58 - Jun 7 with 437 views

Blue_Moses

Step on - Happy Mondays

Cover versions better than the original on 19:02 - Jun 7 with 436 views

armchaircritic59

This is beautiful. Eva Cassidy thought she was suffering from a cold when she did this gig. It was in fact Cancer and 10 months later she was dead. A fitting epitaph.

Cover versions better than the original on 19:04 - Jun 7 with 433 views

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Cover versions better than the original on 12:51 - Jun 6 by WeWereZombies
'Leonard Cohen expressed deep admiration for Jeff Buckley's haunting 1994 cover of 'Hallelujah'. He famously remarked on the sheer beauty of Buckley's rendition, going so far as to describe it as an embodiment of exactly what the song was intended to be.'

A wise man once told me that you prefer Buckley until you grow up, when you prefer Cohen. I tend to agree.

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Cover versions better than the original on 20:41 - Jun 7 with 393 views

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Cover versions better than the original on 13:48 - Jun 7 by Freddies_Ears
Ever so slightly tongue-in-cheek, but Neal Morse's 8-minute prog epic of Bridge Over Troubled Water is utterly superb:

Blimey, and I thought the original was a bit overblown...

But not the first progover of a Simon and Garfunkel classic:

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Cover versions better than the original on 21:14 - Jun 7 with 366 views

Freddies_Ears

Cover versions better than the original on 20:41 - Jun 7 by WeWereZombies
Blimey, and I thought the original was a bit overblown... But not the first progover of a Simon and Garfunkel classic:

Ah, thank you for the reminder of that, er, classic! It moves me onto Wakeman & Wayne's lovely version of Holst's The Planets:

Cover versions better than the original on 21:24 - Jun 7 with 348 views

NedPlimpton

Cover versions better than the original on 16:46 - Jun 6 by Vincakes
Muse - Feeling good

I used to like muse after their first album, Showbiz. But then someone pointed out Matt Bellamy's audible sharp intake of breath before every single line and now I can't ever listen to them again without that being all I hear

As far as covers go, this version of Head over Heals is beautiful

Cover versions better than the original on 21:53 - Jun 7 with 323 views

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Cover versions better than the original on 08:56 - Jun 8 with 213 views

You_Bloo_Right

Not seen this listed yet ..

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Cover versions better than the original on 09:11 - Jun 8 with 195 views

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Cover versions better than the original on 09:23 - Jun 8 with 175 views

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Cover versions better than the original on 21:14 - Jun 7 by Freddies_Ears
Ah, thank you for the reminder of that, er, classic! It moves me onto Wakeman & Wayne's lovely version of Holst's The Planets:

Ah, covers of classical pieces:

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Cover versions better than the original on 09:24 - Jun 8 with 172 views

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