Had a revelation this morning while listening to a HonkyTonk playlist on Spotify that Jerry Reed originally made Amos Moses. For YEARS I just thought it was a Primus song as it has that vibe Les Claypool puts out.

Another for me was Astronomy Domine by Pink Floyd. I originally heard it on Headbangers Ball by Voivod and had no idea it was a cover. A few years later I discovered that it was a cover and to this day Pink Floyd and Voivod are two of my favorite bands.

So, What songs did you surprisingly find out were covers some time after hearing the song by the cover artist?

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[–] HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apparently these are actually pretty well-known covers but I only found out a few years after:

Tina Turner's Proud Mary is originally by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Judas Priest's The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown) is a cover of a Fleetwood Mac song
Whiskey in the Jar is apparently an Irish traditional song, so both Thin Lizzy's and Metallica's (and also the Dubliners') can be said to be covers

[–] Narrrz@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

whiskey in the jar was one of mine. another is Natalie imbruglia's cover of "torn" - the original is by a band called Ednaswap, and there are at least a couple of distinct versions by them, fairly radically different from each other.

[–] DingoFan@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I had no idea about the Judas Priest cover! Wow.