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comment by pseydtonne

Other Springsteen covers that you know better than their originals:

Patti Smith - "Because the Night"

...dang. I can't remember any others right now. Oy.

Patti Smith is famed for another cover that she made more famous than the original: "Gloria". The original was by Them.





cgod  ·  4143 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I had no idea that Springsteen wrote Because the Night, listened to Easter many many times, it's a great album. Looks like she reworked it enough to get writer credits on the song.

Kind of like Bruce reworking Suicides Dream Baby Dream. I am a fan of both artist and have to say that Bruce's version is incomparable. It's probably the strangest song to do as a final encore that I've ever heard, I always feel super sad when I hear Springsteen's version.