While I'll have to respectfully disagree on the Bonnie Tyler version of 'Have You Heard the Rain' (I certainly do not dislike it, I just prefer the non-80s-ified sound of CCR for that particular song, oddly enough), there are a great number of excellent covers out there.
In particular, the Wallflowers' version of David Bowie's "Heroes" is vastly superior to the original; I always felt Bowie's delivery was inappropriately over-the-top and turned the song into a sort of self-parody that fell flat. Jakob Dylan's delivery worked much better for me.
As a rule, I enjoy cover tunes a great deal, the world's full of stuff that works better when someone else improves on the original writer's song (Jimi Hendrix vs. Bob Dylan for 'All Along the Watchtower', as an example).
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In particular, the Wallflowers' version of David Bowie's "Heroes" is vastly superior to the original; I always felt Bowie's delivery was inappropriately over-the-top and turned the song into a sort of self-parody that fell flat. Jakob Dylan's delivery worked much better for me.
As a rule, I enjoy cover tunes a great deal, the world's full of stuff that works better when someone else improves on the original writer's song (Jimi Hendrix vs. Bob Dylan for 'All Along the Watchtower', as an example).