Originally Posted by SlashNX:
“Jeff Buckley did it better.”
There are a hell of a lot of records where someone apparently "covered it better" than the original song writer's performance.
Often it's just down to which one you hear first, if you become familiar with a particular cover version and then later hear the original, the original can seem really bad, simply because it is often different!
It's still really great to hear the original writer perform his or her song and become aware of the talent that first went into that song to create it in the first place though.