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By deep I mean with the most obscure original. I am not talking 'all along the watch tower' but things like Fever Ray's cover of Vashti Bunyan's song Here before

Fever Ray is relatively well known while Bunyan had very limited success

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[โ€“] crawancon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dax Riggs covering Bonnie Prince Billy's Grand Dark Feeling of Emptiness

https://youtu.be/obnh0-NOjZg?feature=shared

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[โ€“] Qkall@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hard to pick one, but murder by death has quite the number of them... But them covering the 90s rnb classic 'creep' was a shock

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[โ€“] dan1101@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The Breeders "Drivin' on 9" was a cover of song by an obscure band called Ed's Redeeming Qualities. The Breeders version is IMO sweet and meloncholy but the original is rather weird.

[โ€“] Dippy@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bizarre Love Triangle. The original is some very bad pop music. New Years Day brought it not only to rock, but into being really good too.

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[โ€“] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Literally any cover of "Hold Me Closer" by Cornelia Jacobs.

[โ€“] Ginger666@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] nicerdicer2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"House of the Rising Sun" has been covered numerous times. The most known version is from The Animals. I was today years old when I learned that this is the original version of the song. However, my personal favourite cover version is from BTO.

Another well-executed cover version is of the song "Johnny B. Goode", covered by Peter Tosh, beause it is tranferred into a different music genre.

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[โ€“] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] No1ButtMe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Collective Soul covered the Morphine song You speak my language

[โ€“] Today@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Two that are not at all obscure to but often overshadowed by their covers... i love the Four Seasons version of Beggin - https://youtu.be/d5AfvOk57bE?feature=shared

Same for the Everly Brothers doing Love Hurts - https://youtu.be/hFE2SnliiV0?feature=shared

Edit to add - i didn't know Peace, Love, and Understanding was Nick Lowe's.

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[โ€“] callouscomic@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Probably The Man Who Sold the World covered by Midge Ure, which I find much better than Bowies original or the famous Nirvana cover.

Also really like Renegades cover by 36 Crazyfists.

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