Cover songs are often musically similar to the originals. However, every now and then, an artist or band will completely reinterpret a song, and take it to a place the songwriter never dreamed of. It’s not that the cover is better. Quite often, both the original and the cover stand alone as great songs. The five songs in this list are so good, you may have thought were originals. Blinded by the Light. Bruce Springsteen’s original was rebuilt, note-by-note, by Manfred Mann in 1976. Whereas Springsteen relied on his often underrated word-smithing abilities to morph memories into images, Mann squeezed every measure through a sonic vibe of synthesizers, processors and atmospheric…