Top 10 Songs Where You Most Likely Heard a Cover Version Before the Original

christangrant This can happen alot you hear a cover of the song before the actual Orginal song itself now i'm not saying that any of these covers are better than the orginal (Some Are and some Aren't) but what i mean is these are songs you most likely heard a cover of before the Orginal

The Top Ten

1 I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton

You have probably most likley heard the Whitney Houston Version first and you probably didn't even know that it was cover (that's what happened to Me) - christangrant

2 All Along the Watchtower - Bob Dylan

Most likely you have heard the Jimi Hendrix Version first - christangrant

3 Cum On Feel the Noize - Slade

Most likely you have heard the Quiet Riot version first - christangrant

4 I Love Rock 'n' Roll - The Arrows

You probably heard the Joan Jett version or if you are unlucky the Britney Spears Version ugh... - christangrant

5 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics

You probably heard the Mayrlin Manson version first - christangrant

I HATE MARILYN MANSON! - hayden3009

6 Dazed and Confused - Jake Holmes

I bet you have most likely thought the song was by Led Zeppelin but Nope it was by Jake Holmes and example of Led Zeppelin Plagerizesm - christangrant

7 Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

Nope, heard the Cohen version first. Never heard the Buckley version until somebody said it was better, once I finally heard Buckley's, I thought it was very meh. Cohen wrote it, and knows how this song is really supposed to sound and feel.

You've probably heard the Jeff Buckley song before this one - christangrant

8 Antisocial - Trust

You probably heard the Anthrax Version first - christangrant

9 Love Hurts - The Everly Brothers

You probally heard the Nazareth version first - christangrant

10 Twist and Shout - Topnotes

You probably heard the Beatles version first - christangrant

The Contenders

11 Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan

Guns N Roses came first to me. And I also like their cover better. - Metal_Treasure

12 The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana

This is the cover of a David Bowie song which yeah you most likley heard the Nirvana version first - christangrant

13 Hurt - Johnny Cash
14 Sound of Silence - Disturbed

No I heard the Simon and Garfunkel first - Thecyanryan

15 Careless Whisper - Seether
16 Whiskey in the Jar - Metallica
17 Behind Blue Eyes - The Who

If you are unlucky you probably heard the Awful Limp Bizkit cover - christangrant

18 Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Robert Hazard
19 I'm a Believer - Smash Mouth
20 Jessie's Girl - Frickin' A
21 The Boys of Summer - The Ataris
22 The First Cut is the Deepest - Sheryl Crow
23 Landslide - Dixie Chicks
24 Baby, I Love Your Way - Big Mountain
25 Killing Me Softly with His Song - Lori Lieberman

You probably heard either Roberta Flack's or the Fugees' version first. - Martin_Canine

26 Walking in the Air - Howard Blake

You propably have heard Nightwish's version first.
I didn't by the way, I saw the short animated movie this is from as a child, then years later again as a teenager. I didn't recall it being that depressingly sad.
But that was how I discovered Nightwish, by browsing this song. - Martin_Canine

27 There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart) - Eurythmics

German girl group No Angels had a big hit with their cover version in Germany, and many probably heard it first by them. - Martin_Canine

28 When the Indians Cry - Chris Norman

At the peak of their career, Vanilla Ninja recorded a cover version in 2004 and entered the Top 10 in Germany and Austria.
The original version by Chris Norman is from 2001 and nobody seems to know it even exists. - Martin_Canine

29 I Love Rock 'N' Roll - Joan Jett

If you're unlucky you heard the Britney Spear's version first...

30 Dream a Little Dream of Me - Ozzie Nelson & His Orchestra

I first heard Blind Guardian cover of 2007 while the original is of 1931... - Metal_Treasure

31 The Wizard - Uriah Heep

I first heard the cover by Blind Guardian. - Metal_Treasure

32 One in a Million - Miley Cyrus

The song was originally from a German pop singer called Sandy Mölling, known mononymously as Sandy, who was part of the popular German girl group No Angels and unsuccessfully tried to pursue a solo career. Even though the song "One in a Million" was never released as a single and barely anybody still remembers the album even existed, the guys behind Hannah Montana somehow discovered the song and decided to let Miley cover it for the show, and it became far wider known. Amusingly, the line "I feel drunk but I am sober / And I'm smiling all over" was replaced a filler lyric about being lucky. - Martin_Canine

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