Covers that Overshadow the Original Song | PART THREE!

[@TayePurks]

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

[@MFSeaMen]

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]

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

[@taflhols278]

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

[@Quinctili]

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]

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

[@SuprousOxide]

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

[@killerklown94]

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]

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]

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]

I should have written this. Very thoughtful analysis!

[@sadmac356]

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

[@Bored_Dionysus]

I honestly think the same thing

[@gtrdoc911]

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]

Came here to say this

[@nathangibbons9492]

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

[@deementia6796]

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

[@jayplay8140]

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]

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]

@@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]

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.

[@michaelward5370]

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

[@petertrudelljr]

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

[@daviebananas1735]

@@petertrudelljrSurely that’s the only definitive version?

[@michaelmcintyre4690]

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

[@theoriginalkimerli]

I’m going to tell on myself now-I have like six versions of this song 😅

[@jiwi736]

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

[@callmeperch]

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

[@milosummers2779]

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

[@OeyvindH]

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.

[@brandiyount5365]

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

[@jessinsurfgreen4964]

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]

as a taylor swift fan i totally agree

[@Melanie_Dawn]

I’ve always preferred the Tom Petty version as well; but then again, John Mayer‘s voice has always irked me. So it’s possible I prefer Tom Petty because his voice doesn’t make my eardrums itch

[@ScradeCottontail]

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]

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

[@FerdinandCesarano]

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

[@michaelbeasley5783]

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

[@13blackcatzzz]

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

[@dyrr836]

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.

[@kaimactrash]

Absolutely, I didn't think I'd end up crying during that movie, but the scene with the cover gets me right in the heart. Surprising amount of depth to the cover, since it's for a movie full of partying barn animals.😂

[@FragglevisionReturns]

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

[@roydean1137]

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

[@ematthewcaddel28]

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.

[@dirtroots638]

I’m 15 and have literally never heard John Mayer’s cover of Free Fallin. I’ve only ever heard Tom Petty’s version on the radio.

[@ludde438]

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]

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)

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

Yeah, I've always associated The Clash music with fighting cops (something even illustrated in their debut album) but I was surprised to realise most of their songs with that theme are covers: Police and Thieves, I Fought the Law, Police on my Back. The only original is Bankrobber.

[@tj1733]

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]

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

[@kommanderkermit4874]

@@acrouton1394 Honestly a lot of Dylans songs have covers that surpass his work so I wouldn't be suprised if it was.

[@omarherasme6699]

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

[@Gottenhimfella]

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

[@eeph4eva]

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

[@billybandyk0720]

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.

[@stevequist8803]

@@Gottenhimfella Right. The original was by Fleetwood Mac in their bluesy pre Buckingham-Nicks days.

[@stevequist8803]

Correction: Santana covered Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman"

[@natkatmac]

Time for another update can't quit until Sound of Silence gets on here

[@tarry_ny]

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]

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]

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]

Who is Limp Bizkits?

[@kinginyellow9994]

I think I heard that version from the movie The Cell

[@derekwilliamson1330]

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

[@joshuagrahambrown]

I grew up with a Chillout Sessions CD which opened with Heartbeats & for almost 20 years I thought José’s was the only version. It wasn’t until 2022 when I was building a playlist of covers that I came to realise it was a cover!

[@LiveHedgehog]

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

[@SuperZap12345]

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

[@daviebananas1735]

Tina still made the song hers.

[@robdermeister3916]

I didn't even know Tina Turner's version existed 😅

[@darkerSolstice]

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]

I love that too

[@dentrh]

KD Laing's interpretation of Hallelujah is other worldly.

[@jimsanderson4180]

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

[@ser132]

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

[@Cap683]

Rufus Wainwright was the first time that I had head the song and still think he does an excellent interpretation.

[@wisegy84]

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!

[@atumra107]

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)

[@antoinesullivan]

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

[@saoirsedeltufo7436]

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

[@WilliamFrancisco-d6w]

While I’ve seen these kind of videos several times, you’ve put together a compilation that not only kept my attention but made me want to go back and revisit each one of these songs to enjoy the artist’s interpretations of what, at there bare bones, were just words put to paper. Great job and I appreciate you not using AI to take the humanity out of your work.

[@moviemogul83]

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

[@daviebananas1735]

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

[@ellie-mt4rf]

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.

[@borntogazeintonightskies]

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]

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

[@sundoga4961]

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

[@FerdinandCesarano]

This is the best suggestion.

[@marlaerwin3610]

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

[@depdava1]

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

[@stew9500]

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

[@brianmurphy9039]

"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"

[@paulygone563]

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

[@goofygoober777_]

i could listen to hours of this topic

[@digitalzealot7026]

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 🖤💙

[@EHenterprises]

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

[@ChrisLarsson85]

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

[@ridofchris]

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.

[@depdava1]

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]

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

[@daviddunmore8415]

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

[@nioc2971]

i was hoping you talked about the sound of silence cover by disturbed

[@peachyclean20]

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.

[@canoran3874]

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

[@michaelbeasley5783]

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]

That whole Less than Zero sdtk was 🔥

[@13blackcatzzz]

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]

@@13blackcatzzz Agree. TOTALLY!.

[@jkrissyla]

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

[@Sebboebbo]

Da king is back baby he neva miss

[@garymitchell3202]

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

[@19trebor53]

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

[@13blackcatzzz]

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]

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

[@TheOneandOnlyD-R-E]

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

[@trevorthompson572]

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

[@suelynch]

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]

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

[@Bumbly_Vee]

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

[@sachitechless]

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.

[@peytonmartin4221]

I’m 28 and the Tom Petty version is much better personally. Not a boomer thing

[@stevequist8803]

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.

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

Just like Jeff Buckley covered John Cale's version of Hallelujah.

[@stevequist8803]

@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 Dave van Ronk developed a version of an old song, whose origins I know not, "House of the Rising Sun". Bob Dylan covered van Ronk's version and then Eric Burdon and the Animals covered Dylan's version. And turned it into an immortal hit.

[@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747]

@@stevequist8803 Yes, I also know that

[@MrJakewray]

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

[@larrylouie]

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

[@ditzfough]

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

[@ShadowOfCicero]

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

[@mals86]

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

[@sterling4271]

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"!

[@sachitechless]

I'd never heard of Mayer's cover of Free Fallin I just knew it as one of the songs from Lego Rock Band

[@cybercrasherstv]

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

[@darkly77]

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

[@patrickdittmer6516]

Tom Petty's Free falling wouldn't exactly fit as a Boomer song as it was released in 1989. As a Gen Xer I have never heard John Mayers version of free falling. Until I watched this video I didn't know that he had re made the song.

[@vickiwooley3088]

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.

[@Skims19]

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]

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

[@billyhatfield4115]

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

[@michaeldesmond5473]

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!!!

[@bricefleckenstein9666]

"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.

[@kayliajade]

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?

[@ZachShock13]

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

[@TheRareVideosXL]

Great content as always.

[@JulieS261]

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).

[@MasonFries]

I'm here a year late to call out Mastodon for somehow pulling off a cover of the *one* song guitar players are literally NOT ALLOWED TO PLAY: Stairway to Heaven - and it's actually an amazing cover. Musically, they don't do much different to it. But tonally, it definitely feels like Mastodon. With the spaceier vibe, and stronger attack when the distorted guitars come into play. And it was originally performed in honor of the passing of their manager, who was a good friend and huge fan of Zeppelin, at his funeral. My heart ❤️

[@user-tw5ro3xx2v]

The Ramones's cover of Needles and Pins vs the Searchers's original version would be cool to have next video if there is one

[@elvisleeboy]

It didn't overshadow the original though. The Searchers version remains the definitive one and is still the one most commonly played.

[@hadjiioke]

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]

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

[@wanna-be-thinker2377]

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]

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.

[@scarletonyx8507]

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 😍

[@stanthonyofpadua1]

Never heard Mayer's cover of Free Falling. This is forever a Tom Petty song.

[@very.goodfella]

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

[@OtherThanIntendedPurpose]

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.

[@JelzSmellz]

As a Canadian who absolutely loves Tom Cochrane getting boiled down to "Famous Manitoban" is hilarious to me.

[@GrizrazRex]

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.

[@colinbaker3916]

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

[@mikeroni]

Nah bro Rufus Wainwright has owned Hallelujah ever since Shrek dropped

[@2-Way_Intersection]

fr, surprised that didnt come up here

[@TheGameMaster127]

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

[@Madkalibyr]

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

[@mikeroni]

@@TheGameMaster127 never realized that, any idea why?

[@my_name_sucks]

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

[@kylemcneal7856]

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

[@reneelyons6836]

You rock!!

[@neesi1570]

(Kris Bluth) Good God, is Jeff Buckley overrated. I remember watching 120 Minutes with my friends back in the day and we'd smirk whenever he came on. If he hadn't died and left behind a good-looking corpse, he'd be a barely remembered Where Are They Now today. When Leonard Cohen sings "Hallelujah", it feels like he's carrying a lifetime of experience and the weight of the world. Buckley just sounds like he's trying to get laid on Open Mic Night. If you want a good cover, listen to John Cale's.

[@mireyanavarro3626]

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

[@robertholmes1743]

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

[@forthefrogs]

The story of how Hallelujah even ended up charting is insane

[@brysonwade7701]

the vid i’ve been waiting for

[@vsauce4678]

Rufus wainwrights Hallelujah is the best

[@asskinf]

Love these videos

[@michaelmugisha7418]

Please make more from this theme - Please Please

[@TheJjcczz]

I’m sorry what, John Mayer covered Free Fallin, that’s news to me. Tom Petty’s version is way more iconic and is the first song I think of when I think Tom Petty