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The song 1985 was not originally recorded by Bowling for Soup, but SR-71
Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt. Trent came off a bit whiny. Cash... it's his song now.
Collective Soul covered the Morphine song You speak my language
once upon a band we played "Sister Andrea" by Mahavishnu Orchestra with many precisions and very many clarities β«βͺ!! (it sounded pretty close)
Bowling For Soup covered 1985 as the original came from SR-71
I'm actually gobsmacked to hear 1985 isn't a bowling for soup original, it's a song I associate with them intrinsically
SR-71 ended up being a one hit wonder band and the singer ended up being a songwriter and producer, so I could see the song getting shopped around for a second chance.
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Literally any cover of "Hold Me Closer" by Cornelia Jacobs.
Rage Against the Machine's Renegades of Funk was originally written and performed by a band called Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force in 1983.
"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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This remix of a cover is pretty good
RIP Jeff Beck
The remix:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2fMtXRKJDPtT8Xs4EJkBQh?si=LpUh_H7vT7mlp8vneGCJUA
The cover:
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FsNksWJRgmQvclcW6lbrZ?si=ni3Qw7PsSqqU225zIA4wew
Well apparently people think Darius Rucker wrote the Old Crow Medicine Show song Rock Me Mama, and what's more, OCMS in their turn credited it (in jest) to Bob Dylan.
Drives me crazy that people don't know Stomp and Holler is a Hayes Carll song, and that Hallelujah is a Leonard Cohen song, and Downtown Train a Tom Waits song, too.
But I don't know if any of these are as obscure as you are looking for. You are looking for songs even music people don't think of as covers?
Type O's cover is so weird: really turns out on its ear
Do obscure rap samples count? Because I love these two:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy9nSEYZQzE&si=6x72ueIzb4LvqImv
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=4TqyGMjeIpA&si=RkaU_sQJK24G9M9T
To the original question, I would pick RHCP cover of Sly and the Family Stone's song If You Want Me To Stay.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jkzWSL-gEO4&si=l-LP8ose9welAblw
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jsXkP0HTf3w&si=OrswIwjoCLw1jHO
Also Type O's cover of Seals and Croft's song Summer Breeze
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ywL6tMQdG4c&si=9uM1HqkGh1rSwv7V
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=uiKzKdLk-iQ&si=pQRsVqWN8iAUzSDn
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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.
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.
Taste aside, some of y'all really need to learn the definition of obscure.
Meh, I saw this as an excuse to talk about something I wanted to
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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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.
Good song, but Bowie is not obscure.
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Not sure if this applies, but people still seem to think that Nine Inch Nails covered Hurt by Johnny Cash and not the other way round. That or they haven't even heard the original.
Whiskey In The Jar Song by Metallica, original is from ~~the Dubliners in 1969~~ a traditional Irish song in the 1950s
Metallica might have been more influenced by the Thin Lizzy version. But the song is older than The Dubliners.
The Amen Break is a few seconds sample that became drum and bass. All of drum and bass has roots from that sample.
For only seven seconds worth of drumming the Amen Breakβs influence and reach is mind blowing. It literally changed (modern, western) music.
~18 min explanation on it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
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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.
There's a kid I know from a few karaoke nights whose go-to song is Beggin. Now it makes more sense why he does that song a bit differently (the first "Beggin" in the chorus he doesn't sing.)
I only grew up with the Madcon version and I didn't know until today that it was a cover.
I also heard a local singer do a really good acoustic cover of that song, where he actually does the rap parts.
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John Coltrane's versions of Afro Blue. Very different from Mongo SantamarΓa's original. I like both approaches, but Coltrane's recordings of it were all just so powerful.