9 Songs So Good You Didn't Know They Were Covers

8. Bowling For Soup - 1985 (Originally By SR-71)

This mostly unknown pop punk band's biggest hit was actually a cover of another mostly unknown pop punk band. SR-71, who you might remember from their late turn-of-the-century rocker "Right Now" (if you remember them at all), wrote "1985" just a year before Bowling For Soup's version started tearing up the charts.

Not that either version of "1985" is groundbreaking by any stretch of the word, but Bowling For Soup was able to transform a modest punk song about random memories into some epic pop nostalgia, which deserves at least a few kudos.