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In the wonderful world of early 2000's MP3 file sharing programs many songs were famously mistitled and the mistakes seeped their way into public consciousness. What are some that you remember?

To this day I still think more people think the reggae version of "Red, Red Wine" is done by Bob Marley than actually know it was done by UB40. This can probably be said about reggae as an entire genre, though.

And of course the classic System of a Down Zelda song that was actually done by The Rabbit Joint.

 

[Patryn]

"All Along the Watchtower" is a Bob Dylan song. Hendrix just did a cover of it.

"Nothing Compares 2 U" is not originally by Sinead O'Connor, and was originally a song by a Prince side project, The Family.

EDIT: Oooops. I misunderstood this thread.

 

[lethial]

House of the Rising Sun - The Rolling Stones

 

[anarckitty]

New Order's Blue Monday?

Covered by Orgy

This may not have surprised anyone else, but A Perfect Circle's The Nurse Who Loved Me is a Failure song.

Edit: Wow, totally misread the OP.

In that case: it always bugged the hell out of me when I searched for "I Melt With You", and it said The Cure sang it....

 

[dorkimoe]

harder better faster

 

[Erasus]

FFX-Otherworld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubHdMe8lGHw

Its not Rammstein

 

[Simon Belmont]

'All The Young Dudes' is not performed by David Bowie. He did write it though.

 

[Ra\/en]

"hurt" by NIN.

Though the Cash version is fantastic too.

 

[Bleepey]

Which Backstreet Boy is gay was not done by Weird Al. This might as well be a Weird Al thread.

 

[frankie_baby]

In the wonderful world of early 2000's MP3 file sharing programs many songs were famously mistitled and the mistakes seeped their way into public consciousness. What are some that you remember?

To this day I still think more people think the reggae version of "Red, Red Wine" is done by Bob Marley than actually know it was done by UB40.

And of course the classic System of a Down Zelda song that was actually done by The Rabbit Joint.

I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't attribute red red wine to ub40

 

[Jacob]

To this day I still think more people think the reggae version of "Red, Red Wine" is done by Bob Marley than actually know it was done by UB40.

I think most people assume that all reggae songs were done by Bob Marley. I see the same thing with "Bad Boys" all the time.

 

[Easy_D]

Bloody Tears from the Dracula battle album being made by Cradle of Filth.

 

[antitrop]

I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't attribute red red wine to ub40

I can find plenty on Google alone. Not to even mention how many don't know it was originally a Neil Diamond song from the 60s.

 

[Alastor]

Am I evil? on Metallica's Garage.inc. Never heard the original.

 

[Davidion]

http://soundsjustlike.com/ the thread?

 

[NathanMcMahon]

Horse With No Name - sung by America but often wrongly attributed to Neil Young.

 

[FUBAR McDangles]

"Don't Worry Be Happy" is constantly attributed to Bob Marley. It's actually by Bobby McFerrin.

The "Bob Marley" Don't Worry Be Happy has over 13 million views on Youtube.
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU]While Bobby McFerrin has just over 17 million views.[/url]

 

[The Interrobanger]

"hurt" by NIN.

Though the Cash version is fantastic too.

The Cash version is about 100 times better so I don't mind.

 

[JMizzlin]

Woke Up This Morning - Alabama 3. Wrongly credited to Leonard Cohen.

 

[Rapstah]

It's not really what the thread is about, but a close female friend of mine until recently thought Behind Blue Eyes was actually an original Limp Bizkit song.

 

[Kentpaul]

Limewire the thread

 

[GalacticSushiman]

Hallelujah is not from Jeff Buckley but from L. Cohen

 

[Andrew.]

Rage Against The Machine's "Ghost of Tom Joad" was/is really a Bruce Springsteen song.

 

[Bleepey]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisattributedSong

you're welcome.

 

[frankie_baby]

I can find plenty on Google alone. Not to even mention how many don't know it was originally a Neil Diamond song from the 60s.

I've never actually met this Google bloke though, however yes I had no idea it was originally Neil diamond

 

[teruterubozu]

To this day I still think more people think the reggae version of "Red, Red Wine" is done by Bob Marley than actually know it was done by UB40.

"Don't Worry Be Happy" is constantly attributed to Bob Marley. It's actually by Bobby McFerrin.

Obviously these people don't get high. Never heard of these errors.

 

[Easy_D]

Hallelujah is not from Jeff Buckley but from L. Cohen

Not the good version

 

[Adam Blade]

Somebody's Watching Me being attributed to MJ...

It's Rockwell featuring MJ...

 

[Seanspeed]

There's a really great black metal cover of Iron Maiden's "Fear of the Dark" that everyone thought Cradle of Filth did, but it was actually the infinitely more awesome Graveworm.

And yup, doing a Youtube search, plenty of people still attribute it to Cradle of Filth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llYNTcvBo1o

 

[antitrop]

Limewire the thread

Yes, that was my intent.

 

[djplaeskool]

"My Boo" (1996) was by the Ghost Town DJs and Virgo Williams, not INOJ

 

[EulaCapra]

"I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston. Originally by Dolly Parton.

 

[codhand]

A Boy Named Sue

 

[billy beane]

"Rock the Dragon" being by Linkin Park was one I remember.

 

[frankie_baby]

Somebody's Watching Me being attributed to MJ...

It's Rockwell featuring MJ...

That one is fair enough seeing as mj sings on it

 

[Salvor.Hardin]

Cat Stevens never performed Cat's in the Cradle. A lot of people don't believe me when I first tell them that.

 

[Kitsunebaby]

Sweat by Inner Circle is constantly attributed to Bob Marley. But then again, all reggae is.

 

[Truant]

Radiohead - The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

Every movie - Gay porn

 

[antitrop]

There's a really great black metal cover of Iron Maiden's "Fear of the Dark" that everyone thought Cradle of Filth did, but it was actually the infinitely more awesome Graveworm.

And yup, doing a Youtube search, plenty of people still attribute it to Cradle of Filth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llYNTcvBo1o

Makes sense since Cradle did a fucking badass version of "Hallowed Be Thy Name". It's one of the only Cradle songs I like.

 

[Martian]

Story of a Girl

not by 3 Doors Down, but by Nine Inch Nails (if I'm not mistaken, I still have it under 3 doors down)

 

[ConfusingJazz]

There is a cracked article for you, OP: 5 Famous Songs Everyone Thinks Are by the Wrong Artist

#5. "A Horse With No Name" Is Not a Neil Young Song
#4. "Cum on Feel the Noize" Is Not a Twisted Sister Classic (Or a Classic)
#3. "Son of a Preacher Man" Is the White Soul Song Not Sung by Janis Joplin
#2. The Cure Never Sang "I Melt With You"
#1. "Cat's in the Cradle" Is a Harry Chapin Song

 

[Secks4Food]

Every time "Time of the Season" by The Zombies plays on the radio at work, everyone thinks it's Dave Matthews

 

[antitrop]

#4. "Cum on Feel the Noize" Is Not a Twisted Sister Classic (Or a Classic)

Awww, that's one of my favorite 80's hair metal songs.

 

[chaostrophy]

I thought Tainted Love was originally by Soft Cell for ages.

 

[GraveHorizon]

Life Is a Highway was covered by Rascal Flatts for the movie Cars. The original song is by Tom Cochrane, released in 1991. The original sounds better as a song, while the Rascal Flatts version is funnier as a joke. I didn't know about this until a few weeks ago when I looked up the song on Wikipedia.

I feel like there might be some people around that think Smooth Criminal is an Alien Ant Farm original.

"I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston. Originally by Dolly Parton.

Doesn't matter because it's Whitney's song now.

 

[modulaire]

Meredith Brooks - Bitch

It's not from Alanis Morissette

 

[Kitsunebaby]

Every time "Time of the Season" by The Zombies plays on the radio at work, everyone thinks it's Dave Matthews

Wait...how? They're not even remotely similar.

 

[Lucky Forward]

Rage Against The Machine's "Ghost of Tom Joad" was/is really a Bruce Springsteen song.

Manfred Mann's "Blinded By The Light" was/is really a Bruce Springsteen song.

 

[Enron]

The Gourds' cover of "Gin and Juice" was attributed to Phish for a long while back in the late 90s/early 00s

 

[antitrop]

"Rock the Dragon" being by Linkin Park was one I remember.

Isn't that the opening theme song to the English dub of Dragonball Z?