# Awesome cover songs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 16, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-cover-songs/472994 "2008-11-16T14:03:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-cover-songs/472994/13 "2008-11-17T03:27:26Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The Bangles’ cover of [“Hazy Shade Of Winter”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFRx4PkXeVM) was better than the Simon & Garfunkel [original](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yheo2AgNywU&feature=related). And they looked better in miniskirts. Damn you Little Nemo I came in to post this. In a related thread [Your favorite ‘non-traditional’ cover of a hit song?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=493205) I mentioned Yes’s cover of America (written by Simon & Garfunkel) is much, much better. [Here it is live](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS2FUW7UkR0)in all of its 11 minutes of Glory! [/QUOTE] I love[Fiona Apple’s Across the Universe.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gLWTtlMwo4) is very special. [Jimi Hendrix’s All along the Watchtower](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwCBh0z3Hs) is great and Dylan said it was the best version he ever heard. \*\*dawson \*\*beat me to it though. Led Zeppelin did “[Babe I’m Gonna Leave You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Ar1rAm4UQ)” that was recorded by Joan Baez in 63 but apparently written by Anne Bredon in the late 1950s. Weird one: [Barbra Streisand–Somewhere](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoFkZ4Yni24) cover of the Broadway tune from West Side Story. It took me 4 tries to find the version I was looking for. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-cover-songs/472994)._