Your best Original songs
 

Following on from Bills thread...

Adele covered one of my all time favourite songs and it was certainly a catalyst in her career. She is one in a very very long line of people to cover this particular song and both hers and Garth Brooks' versions are brilliant, but I don't think either are a patch on the man himself.

He is a prolific songwriter but this could easily be one of his best and the way he sings it gets me to the core every time I hear it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH3HMBhzSag

So...what songs do you love more by the writer/original recording artist than by the people that have covered it in later years?

Forgive me if you're not a Dylan fan...but I am and I LOVE his voice :-)

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American Pie = Don Maclean, say no more.

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Metallica - Fade to Black. Not heard any cover that comes near to touching the original recording.

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Pink Cadillac by Springsteen

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I would actually say I tend to prefer the originals than most covers I've heard.

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It's my life - Talk Talk

No Doubt covered it and didn't do a bad job, but you can't beat the original.

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+1

Plus 'Blinded by the light' Manfred mans version was good, but not a patch on the original

+1, with the exception of one Springsteen track which he gave to Patti Smith to record, as he said he wasn't ready to sing such a song at the time he wrote it, which was 'Because the night' both equal in my books, Bruces version is better live

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Fairytale of new york, by that good looking dude and km, will never be bettered.

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Good call. Don't hear enough Talk Talk IMHO

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Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan