This troper is ashamed to admit she only recently learned that The Girl With One Eye is a cover that Florence and the Machine did. To my credit, I did immediately go and look up the original version of it out of curiosity.

This troper is continually dismayed by those who think that ''Laid'' didn't exist before Matt Nathanson performed it for the soundtrack of ''American Wedding''; James are his favourite band, who beat Nathanson to it by ten years.

This troper hears the Hall and Oates version of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" on the radio far more often than the Righteous Brothers version.

This troper is in agreement - he heard (and prefers) the Hall and Oates version first, and never heard the Righteous Brothers version until he saw the ''TopGun'' movie.

This troper had no idea there ''was'' a Hall and Oates version...

This troper once saw a friend who had a band in college say, "We're going to do an Anthrax song now," before launching into "Got the Time." The singer was stunned to find out (from two different sources) that it was actually a Joe Jackson song.

Until Googling it, this troper had no idea that Orgy's cover of "Blue Monday" was originally a New Order song from 1983.

That same troper has also only ever heard the Pearl Jam cover of "Last Kiss" by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers. (Of course, she didn't know either the name ''or'' the band until she googled the lyrics.) Same goes for the Elwood cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown".

A friend of this troper was a big fan of Cake's "Sad Songs and Waltzes", and was surprised to find out it was a Willie Nelson tune.

This troper didn't know that either until now.

How about "The Distance"? What a killer bass line

This troper's nieces and most of their classmates refer to it as "the Crazy Frog song", whereas anyone over the age of, say, 15, recognizes it as "Axel F" from ''BeverlyHillsCop''.

This troper now feels guilty, as she's 18 and only saw ''BeverlyHillsCop'' within the past year. She only knew "Axel F" as "that Crazy Frog song" until then.

Frog Song"? This troper doesn't grasp how Axel F had anything to do with frogs (in fact if anything, he sometimes assocates it with David Copperfield (the magician, not the book) due to the song's use on some of his magic shows, or with the [[{{Amiga}} Commodore Amiga computer due to the song being available in one of the platform's popular music file formats). Perhaps those kids heard it while watching KeroroGunso or playing {{Frogger}}?]] Ok so he heard the cover version from a Youtube clip. Makes sense now.

This troper has heard several people too many comment on how much they like Johnny Cash's "Hurt", but can't stand "that cover version NineInchNails did". Of course, Trent Reznor himself has been known to say that it's "not [his] song anymore", so he apparently has no problem with being CoveredUp here.

This troper remembers singing a bittersweet little folk song in summer camp and the like, about a literal BrokenBird who learns to live and hope again. She later heard several folksy-type singers performing it. She naturally assumed it was an old folk song. Later, while talking with her mother: "Wait, TheBeatles did a version of that Blackbird song?"

For the longest time, this troper wasn't aware that ''Come Together'' by Aerosmith was a cover. Now, despite knowing that it is, she prefers the cover over the orginal.

This Troper first heard the Michael Jackson version.

Not to mention her brother, who, at some point became aware that ''Knockin' On Heaven's Door'' by Guns 'n Roses was a cover, but didn't know who did it. He was both amazed and annoyed to find that Bob Dylan sung the original, as he isn't a fan of Bob Dylan.

That's funny; when I heard the Guns N' Roses version, I thought they were covering ''Eric Clapton's'' song. When I was talking with a friend who was complaining about someone who thought the Guns N' Roses version ''was'' the original song, he said something like "I must bitch-smack him, in Bob Dylan's name." I blinked and didn't say anything.

This troper once talked about "that Michael Bublé song ''Feeling Good''".

Same for this troper, only he referred to it as a {{Music/Muse}} song.

It's not a Muse song?

Who originally sung it? This troper is now rather confused.

It's actually from a musical called "''The Roar of the Greasepaint — the Smell of the Crowd''". Gilbert Price sung it as part of the original cast.

This troper is amused at this, as she's sure her brother isn't aware that one of his favourite Muse songs is a cover.

This troper is now very confused, because he's always associated it with Nina Simone.

Feeling Good: Probably the ultimate example of CoveredUp, since that's now ''three'' different artists that it's been wrongly attributed to just on this page.

Not that ridiculous, as it's become a Standard.

Half CoveredUp, Half WeirdAlEffect, but This Troper has a friend who will accidentally name songs by their parody counterpart, only to correct himself shortly afterward.

This troper heard the Art of Noise cover of ''Kiss'' by that artist formerly, then currently, known as Prince before hearing the original. He vastly prefers the Art of Noise version because A) Tom Jones is singing the vocals, and B) the vocals are now ''comprehensible''.

This troper likes Tom Jones' version of The Talking Heads' "Burning Down The House" for much the same reason (though, in this case, he did at least hear the original version first). Said troper couldn't even make out half the lyrics when David Byrne was singing them!

It's Talking Heads. No the. (You're right about the lyrics being hard to make out, though.)

I personaly find the covers used in rhythm games to be much better then the originals most of the time.

This troper, to my chagrin, first heard Behind Blue Eyes when my brother played it in the car. My first thought was "God, this song sounds so stereotypically emo! How could anyone like it?" My jaw practically dropped when I mentioned the lyrics to my parents, only to hear them suddenly burst into song, and have them tell me it was done by The motherfrickin' Who, a band that my family had listened to as long as I could remember. It wasn't until later that I found out the first one was the cover by Limp Bizkit. I sincerely hope I'm not the only one this has happened to.

This troper has learned painfully over the years that whenever he heard a nice melody in a hip-hop/rap song (a genre he generally knows little about), it was "sampled", as they say, from another score, and wonders how many times other listeners have been fooled, even if unintentionally on the part of the rapper, into thinking that some hook was original to the later song. Examples of the writer's own disillusionment include, to reference the above entry, Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby", which, unbeknownst to me as a child was sampled from Queen's "Under Pressure" (hey, it came out the year I was born, cut me some slack), and Busta Rhymes' "Gimme Some More", copping the violins from Hermann's "Psycho" soundtrack. To name a few.

It gets worse: This editor heard a friend of his remark that Warren Zevon (referred to by the friend only as "that asshole") had stolen ''Werewolves of London'' from talentless, hip-hopping cracker Kid Rock. I had to resist the urge to pimp-slap this acquaintance as I pointed out to him that it's impossible for anyone to steal music from Kid Rock; they can only steal it ''back''.

What makes this even funnier is that Kid Rock references ''Sweet Home Alabama''. I have to tell people that, no, the melody is NOT from ''Sweet Home Alabama'', it's from ''Werewolves of London''.

How about the kid who thought Grandmaster Flash ripped off Puff Daddy?

This troper was convinced for a ''long'' time that Rick James had ripped off the bassline from "U Can't Touch This" from MC Hammer for his song "Superfreak". Only now does he realize the error of his ways.

This troper had the same thing happen, and wouldn't have even been aware of the existence of "Superfreak" had the one radio station he listened to at the time hadn't started playing it after "Can't Touch This" got popular.

In a Literature class a while ago, a poem contained the line 'Now I'm taller, harder, stronger, older'. Teacher then turns to the class and says 'Sounds like a bloomin' Kanye West song'.

Inverted with this troper--she thought, for ''sure,'' the Barenaked Ladies song "It's All Been Done" was a cover. It sounded so "60's" to her. She was surprised to learn it was an original, and no, it had never been covered.

This troper once looked up the lyrics to {{Disturbed}}'s cover of "Land of Confusion", originally done by {{Genesis}} 1986. In the comment section, people were discussing what a good anti-Iraqi War song it was. This DESPITE the fact that several people had already pointed out that it was written long before the Iraqi War.

''The Tide is High'' is a cover from ''1980?!?!'' Of a song originally recorded in ''1967''? And it's got ''two'' covers on top of that. ThatOtherWiki says people tend to remember whichever cover happens to have been popular when they remember it, so talk about a serious case of Covered Up, indeed!

This troper could not believe it when an American acquaintance, upon hearing the Busted song "What I Go To School For", proclaimed that "They ripped off the Jonas Brothers!".

Shoot her. troper's friend's sister often thinks that songs covered by the Jonas Brothers were written by them, and when she listened to "Message in a Bottle" on Rock Band 2, she though The Police ripped them off. On an unrelated note, this troper himself often heard the Alien Ant Farm version of "Smooth Criminal" on his favorite radio station, but strangely thought that it was the original Michael Jackson version because they never announced that it was a cover before starting the song, and he only heard of the Michael Jackson original.

The Jonas Brothers covered "Message in a Bottle"? Sweet god, kill me now.

The Jonas Brothers covering "Message in a Bottle"... this troper's going to go cry in a corner now. Jesus Christ.

With you there. It took a moment to sink in, but now that I understand... Where's my BrainBleach?

Though more of "Sampled Up", once this troper was singing "Dream On", and a classmate thought he was singing Eminem.

This troper also heard "Sing for the Moment" way before "Dream On". Of course, she thought the sampled bits were the best part, so... yeah.

This troper has seen this happen a few times with Tom Waits' "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" and the Ramones' cover of it. Kind of odd because The Ramones' version wasn't really any more popular than the Tom Waits version. Maybe it's because The Ramones just so thoroughly made it ''sound'' like a Ramones song?

Kind of somewhere between this and the WeirdAlEffect, but while watching the video for the B-52's "Rock Lobster" on youtube, this troper noted myriad comments expressing surprise that the song wasn't just something Peter Griffin just made up as he went along.

This troper has seen similar comments regarding the episode where Peter can't escape the song "Surfin' Bird".

When This troper first saw ''Shrek'', he heard ''I'm a Believer'', sung by Smash Mouth, for the first time. Only later did he discover that The Monkees did that song first. He likes Smash Mouth's version better, though.

Funny story about ''I'm a Believer'': This troper listened to a recent recording of the song sung by Neil Diamond, only to be told by his mother that it was originally sung by The Monkees, only to look it up and tell her that Neil Diamond was the songwriter. So then is Diamond's version considered a cover or not? (For what it's worth, I preferred Diamond's version.)

This troper recently had to explain to a co-worker that the recent Glen Campbel version of Good Riddance(time of your life) was in fact a cover, the original song was by Green Day.

That's it, I feel old.

This troper knew she was getting old when she heard a friend's daughter refer to Don [=McLean's=] folk rock classic "American Pie" as "that Madonna song."

During the last season of American Idol, when Adam Lambert performed the song "Mad World" I remembered being impressed with his pristine vocals on what I thought was a faithful rendition of the original. Cue the entire world talking about his daring new arrangement. Turns out that I wasn't aware that the gloomy version from the Donnie Darko soundtrack wasn't the original, and that many people weren't aware that Lambert was performing the Donnie Darko version of the '82 Tears for Fears song.

There is a small but significant number of indie babies who have never heard of Ace of Base, and just know that the Mountain Goats OWN The Sign live.

The whole of Ace Of Base suffer from this; it's been argued that the duration of their success in the United States was precisely as long as it took for people to realise that they weren't actually an ABBA reunion.

This troper had known for a while that the song "Poison" was by Alice Cooper. However, he had only heard Cooper's version once, and multiple covers of it several times. This led to an instance when he was listening to a friend's mp3 collection. When the song came up he asked, "Who did this cover?" It was Alice Cooper.

I nearly cried when the original version of "Under Pressure" played, and my classmate said, "Hey, this is just some crappy cover!" I then discovered the person in question had never heard of David Bowie ''or'' Queen. I then stuffed myself in a locker.

This troper wishes she had a locker to shove herself in. 'Course, it's probably fairly common. I've met people who haven't heard of ''The Beatles''... God, the music world is sad right now. (It's not fair! I wasn't even born yet when most of my favorite musicians were popular!)

I've met someone myself that's never heard of TheBeatles. In fact, she admitted that she's never heard of any band except for ''TheJonasBrothers''. *shudder* It doesn't help when some people that like TheJonasBrothers think that they're better than TheBeatles. Someone shoot me. God help me if people start thinking that their cover of Hello, Goodbye was all their own work.

I still encounter people who say things such as "Oh, you know that Sublime song? Uh, what was it called... oh yeah, Scarlet Begonias."

This editor saw The Artist Formerly Known as Puff Daddy perform "Come With Me" on Saturday Night Live in 1998 and idly wondered to himself why Jimmy Page, the awesome guitarist from Led Zeppelin, was playing for him. Three years later he heard "Kashmir" on the radio for the first time and his questions were answered.

Granted that's a sample, not a cover. Also This Troper happens to like ''both'' versions.

More of a case of uninformed, but this troper's father wasn't aware that it was Leonard Cohen that wrote the song ''Hallelujah''. He knew there were many covers of it, but he was surprised when to find that it was Leonard Cohen of all people to write such a beautiful song.

Funny thing about DaftPunk fans complaining about Kanye sampling one of their songs? Said song is also a sample, so it goes full circle. This Troper thinks both versions are anyway.

This classic rock snob underwent a nasty transition period after Guitar Hero came out, when people only knew the Guitar Hero versions of songs. The worst were people who thought Steve Ouimette wrote Devil Went Down to Georgia. Any time a cover of a rock song was used on Guitar Hero, but I liked the original, and people would ask why I was listening to a cover when the original band was so much heavier?... Resisting urge to choke a bitch.

This trope comes from an area where country music is ridiculously popular, and so I've had a hatred of it build up over the years. So I was ashamed to say I liked the Blake Shelton song "Home". When I broke down and went to download it from iTunes I was pleasantly surprised to find it was a cover of a Michael Buble song. So I downloaded the original, which is much better. Not just because it's not country, Michael Buble is a far, far better singer than Blake Shelton.

"Blame It on the Boogie"? Nope, not originally by the Jackson 5. The icing on the cake is that it was by another singer with the surname Jackson.

Of course, they weren't the Jackson 5 when they recorded that song, they were The Jacksons, only because Motown trademarked the name Jackson 5, but, I didn't know this, thanks

This troper always though that ''Smooth Criminal'' was an Alien Ant Farm song...until years later, when he discovered it was a cover of a MichaelJackson song.

Funny, because when this troper heard ''Smooth Criminal'' was going to be available for download on Rock Band, she thought it was the original (which was odd, but Still Alive is also available for download). Cue her surprise when she went to play it with her brother in honour of MichaelJackson and saw it was actually a cover. Her brother, while aware it was a cover of MichaelJackson's original, had yet to hear said original. She rather likes both versions either way.

Very often inverted with this troper. Since her dad listens to the originals of a lot of the songs on the list, she's often surprised to find covers, sometimes pleasantly, sometimes not so. The funny thing is, she wasn't even a classic rock fan until the last few years. It reached a new height of surreal when she heard My Chemical Romance's version of Desolation Row.

Kind of an inversion for me. For this troper Tom Petty's original version of Free Fallin' is the one he knows and loves best. So when at work he heard a live version of Free Fallin' he assumed it was a live version by Tom Petty. Imagine my surprise when looking up John Mayer's version on Youtube and finding out the live version is by John Mayer

This troper is consistently annoyed by people, in real life and on Youtube, that dislike "That Dio cover of ''Holy Diver''". Killswitch Engage didn't do it first dammit!

As a metal fan, I find that to be very sad, I love Ronnie and I think Metal won't be the same without him....so, to think that he did a cover of his OWN song, that is the dumbest thing ever

The first case of this that this troper can remember having was with "Octopus's Garden" - I grew up on a Raffi album with his version on it, and while I was familiar with The Beatles at the time, I'd never heard any full albums until I became a teenager and started buying some myself. Thus when I put on ''Abbey Road'' for the first time without really looking at the track list, I was kind of surprised when a few songs in I was suddenly hearing Ringo sing what I had taken to be a Raffi song.

This troper is rather embarrassed to admit that despite being a MontyPython fan it took her the better part of a decade before she realized that "The Galaxy Song" was not originally done by Clint Black. (She still likes his version better.)

When I watched the ''ToyStory 2'' after-the-movie featurette (at least in the VHS copy) where Riders In The Sky perform samples of the Woody's Roundup album (yes there is one), one of the samples was of a song named "Act Naturally". Little did I know at the time that it covered a {{Beatles}} song.

Which, in itself is a cover. Of a Buck Owens song.

The first arrangement of Bohemian Rhapsody This Troper ever heard was a cover by Rolf Harris. She knows it's not the original, and she's since heard other versions, but it just sounds ''wrong'' without wobbleboard.

This troper honestly thought "Time After Time" was covered by Cindy Lauper because the first version he heard (back around just after the song came out in 1986) was by Paul Parker (and thus thought the latter was the original). He didn't realize it was the other way around (and released in 1984) until two years ago when he saw the article of it in the other wiki. Still, he prefers the Paul Parker version.

An inversion - when this troper first heard "Read 'Em and Weep" by Meatloaf (one of this troper's favorite songs, and his favorite Meatloaf song too), then the other version by Barry Manilow, he thought Barry Manilow's version was the original because it sounded "older". Only after reading about it in the other wiki did he realize Meathloaf's version was the original, and was even more surprised that the Barry Manilow cover was one that hit the charts while the original Meatloaf version didn't.

Another inversion of this trope happened to this troper. She had grown up hearing the Wynonna Judd version of Change The World and when she went to look it up, she saw the Eric Clapton version and so she figured that the Wynonna version was a cover. An amazing cover, but still a cover. Then she found this video of the Wynonna version and found out that Wynonna did in fact do the original version.

High school 1983: I was informed of the great new song by MotleyCrue: "Helter Skelter." Oh, TheBeatles song? "No, this isn't a Beatles song, it's Motley Crue! They do their own songs, why would they do a Beatles song?!" Well, they can't copyright a title so I guess it could be a different song. I go over to his house and he plays me the album. I look at the album: "by Lennon[=/McCartney=]." And this was a guy who knew of The Beatles, even if he wasn't a big fan.

Just in. After finding a copy of Helen Reddy's "I Don't Know How To Love Him", which I used to listen to in the 70's and thought all along it was her original work, I felt like I was in a BigLippedAlligatorMoment after finding out it was a cover version of an original written for Jesus Christ: Superstar.

I was at a school pep rally, where a poor girl had done a pretty poor job of singing the USA national anthem (she wasn't a bad singer, just clearly very nervous) I began discussing with my friends how annoyingly difficult the Star Spangled Banner is to sing. #QUOTE# '''Friend:''' I know! Why did they have to choose ''that'' song for our national anthem? They should have chosen something easier, like "America". #QUOTE# '''Me:''' Uh, because that's actually to the tune of the ''British'' national anthem, which probably wouldn't have flown at the time... #QUOTE# ''Friend:'''Oh. Yeah, you're right.

This 17 year old troper (who will finish this in first person) knew my tastes in music were in serious need of an update when I looked through my sister's list of songs and knew how many of the songs were covers. Similarly (and rather embarassingly), I was surprised to learn that the song "Heaven" was not originally written by DJ Sammy (for those who want to kill me, the first version I heard was the candlelight remix of the song (which I think was written for 9/11, I don't know that much about it), which is similar to the original writer's version). I was also surprised to learn that "You've Got The Love" was not written by Florance And The Machine, although I have not mentioned it to my sister yet. I'm also infamous for singing "The Sick Note" at my school...despite only singing it twice (once in a proper performance).

This Troper was humming "Beat It" one day when his seventeen-year-old sister comes up to him and says smugly, "I though you didn't like FallOutBoy." Sigh...

@/RobinZimm managed to rather astonish a friend of his when he revealed that "Fields of Gold" was not original to Eva Cassidy, but rather a cover of a Sting song.

A case of Big Reveal for this troper - he used to hear a few hits from Ray Conniff on the radio back in the 70's, thinking they were all the originals. Cue this troper's shock upon discovering ''just today'' (through YouTube) otherwise: 1. "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves", as it turns out originally by Cher of all people (in fact this troper didn't even realize Cher was in the music industry ''that long''!), and 2. "Eres Tu", originally by Mocedades (a Spanish group; in fact the original was in Spanish).

I probably spent about two or three years of my life firmly believing that Rascal Flatts' cover of "Life is a Highway" for ''Cars'' was an original song written for the movie. I was genuinely surprised when I learned the truth.

I now know it was originally Peter Frampton, but the first time I heard "Baby I Love Your Way", it was the cover by reggae band Big Mountain that was a hit in the 90's. I still associate the song strongly enough with that version that whenever I hear the original, the line "But don't hesitate" doesn't sound right without being followed by "la-dee-da!".

I'm pretty good with this trope. I can usually figure out cover songs fairly well and I get really annoyed when people try to cite some other artist who did a cover of it. I also sometimes can figure out a cover song even before I know for a fact that it is. Each era has a unique sound to it and as much as some artists try to make it their own, there is still that resonance of the original sound that seems to make its way through. Well at least about 90% of the time. I am also not completely immune to this trope either. My most shameful was, despite my parents being huge Neil Young fans, I attributed "Hey Hey My My" to Pearl Jam.

I see this with Savage Garden's Truly, Madly, Deeply far too often. It's far too early for Cascada's version to displace that one.

One that's sort of in the reverse of how these things normally go: A {{Queen}} fan I know insisted "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" was a cover of an earlier country song, and that he'd heard the original somewhere. I soon figured out he'd heard the Dwight Yoakam cover (which was new at the time) and assumed it was the original even though it wasn't what he'd heard first - I suppose the Dwight Yoakam version just sounded older to him, and it ''is'' a different enough style for Queen that it could be a cover.