The Maytals version of Country Roads is one of my favourites

Another great Joe Cocker version:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpyhl85MYmU[/video]

Mike Flowers pops version of Wonderwall. So much better that than the whiney manc version.

Squeezebox Man is Alastair Anderson.
I think this cover of the whole of Dark Side of the Moon almost eclipses the original
[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VJEZWsnIECo[/video]

The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain does more and better cover versions than anyone
[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FF0VaBxb27w[/video]

Have a cigar done by the foo fighters with the drummer singing

Robert Wyatt – Shipbuilding (org. Costello)

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bac2wHZoT2Y[/video]

[/url] also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5LGntzmExM not better than the original but well worth a look.

not better than the original but well worth a look.

Quite fitting that one of the finest songs has the best cover version.

Mike Flowers pops version of Wonderwall. So much better that than the whiney manc version.

Yep so true.

[/quote]I think this cover of the whole of Dark Side of the Moon almost eclipses the original

Great in places but not all of it.
Great thread thanks to all for posting.

(Quote button playing up a bit there.)

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9npghcSSt0g[/video]

Here it is in all it’s glory.

PJ Harvey – Is that all there is?
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ZUAorP0b4[/video]

The Gypsy Kings – Hotel California (Can’t stand that dull MOR Eagles carp)
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMYyxqaaWew[/video]

Very tough to pull off a Joy Division cover, but this is a great one:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD5l30Rhs60[/video]

I’ve no idea how to get the youtube embed thing to work!?

Lisse doing a better job than Kid Cudi

I’ve no idea how to get the youtube embed thing to work!?

Try (copy URL)on you tube then click and paste into video button below, if it does’t work don’t blame me i am no friend to the computer.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJzaq3JhajM[/video]

A true talent who died too young.

[video]http://youtu.be/w4oZXfrf18Y[/video]

@portlyone ,fantastic but i am supposed to be mowing the lawn at the moment 8)

Pink Floyd, never has one band been so firmly stuck up it’s own arse.

Burn him 😈

What’s the best cover of Stairway?

Zappa’s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mb-AWqfBD4

Valerie, Amy W / Mark Ronson.
It is a pity that she was so drunk/drugged that she didn’t turn up for the video.

This would be one although I like the original by Zutons too.

She and My Funny Valentine – Elvis Costello, I have to say I am biased as every song he covered is better then the original 8)

@dannyh – I didn’t realise I Fought the Law was a cover !

Ok, without commenting on other folk’s choices (Gun? GUN? Better than CAMEO?? ffs) ahem.

Completely eclipsed the orginal:
[video]http://youtu.be/iUiTQvT0W_0[/video]

Can’t think of any more, some covers are ok, but hardly any are much better than the original. (Especially not if they are by GUN.)

@ DezB another great cover way better than the origonal Ponce effort, looks like the lawn will have to wait. 😉

Better than The Monkees
[video]http://youtu.be/XipsuDA89-g[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=180Sq7zMmWc[/video]

Great pub.
Holt’s beer, the steak pie’s nice too.

Pensioner’s special on request Dez.

pete, good call on Les Thugs- i forgot just how good that cover is!

Anyway, here’s an interesting one:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSU0t69dG1o[/video]

Hi Andy.
Find a watch mate?

not yet!
I’m sticking with my current one for now, given it’s gonna be more expensive than i hoped and i want/need a new bike first. and a house!

Anova one for us wrinklies
[video]http://youtu.be/HFWKJ2FUiAQ[/video]

What’s the best cover of Stairway?

Zappa’s:
His rendition of “Ring of Fire” takes some beating too.

I was tempted to post the Jukebox version of metal heart but can you do a cover of your own song?

[video]http://youtu.be/jwzcBHDIqKE[/video]

Also see her version of Satisfaction.

Bonnie Prince Billy & Tortoise

[video]http://youtu.be/fcKrYUJPFxs[/video]

See also his version of Am I Demon (not sure but it might even feature the wonderful Meg Baird….)

And for all those posting mortal coil, better than the man? I think not.

Here’s his version of Dolphins. Brilliant, a major loss.

[video]http://youtu.be/LtU-9EMSYu0[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdmomuRTMvI[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW9Pv0WT2K0[/video]

Nina Gordon’s version of 18 and Life is good too. I might regret this but Leona Lewis’s version of Run by Snow Patrol is brilliant.

I always thought Johnny Cash’s Hurt was really overrated, it’s all a bit Shatner. But his version of One is ace.

But you know, everything by Richard Cheese

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBhZ8gCgfg0[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn40B9ugcrs[/video]

I can’t find a really good version of this but Frank Turner’s take on The District Sleeps Alone Tonight made me go and get the original, and discover I hated it, which is a good recommendation I think

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqPDdO2JwSU&list=RDBqPDdO2JwSU[/video]

Or how about a bit of Shakira Shakira

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s5R2c23XYs[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJLOr8S2d2E[/video]

Hickory Wind – Idha did a pretty good version too

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yd–OqncqE[/video]

this is better than anything else posted in this thread so far, or anything else that may follow…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMkA76KpWO8[/video]

Mark, man, you play a mean guitar! It’s really a shame that you must die!

Don’t Think Twice – June Tabor.

Generally, I love an interesting cover, but this is just disturbing …

DiVinyls’ I Touch Myself, by Rolf.

To eclipse the original a cover song needs to be a lot more than just “better than the original” in someone’s very personal and subjective opinion. It needs to adopt the song as its own; it needs the original artist to say “fair cop, your version is brilliant”; it needs the general public to forget or never even know or care there was an original version before it.

Mark Ronson’s Valerie ticks these boxes as does Cash’s Hurt. A more contentious suggestion – since the original artist was the biggest band in the world – is this:

[video]http://youtu.be/bRzKUVjHkGk[/video]

Apologies if already posted; this thread was killing my iPad.

And for all those posting mortal coil, better than the man? I think not.

Thread is about eclipsing the original (or, that’s what I thought it was supposed to be about). If This Mortal Coil hadn’t covered that beautiful song it would have remained in complete obscurity. To think otherwise is to be deluded. 😉

Plus:
Also see her version of Satisfaction. – Eclipses what exactly?