probably the unlikliest duo ever, russell watson and shaun ryder – barcelona…. let the music vibrate you 🙂

elton john not so good, (even tough original)

Harry Connick Jr WICKED!!!

Your Song

How can we forget this?

I do like the origionlal but I think they made this their own song too.
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XRNQ2C2x0

A great song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO6Rknx5xyI

Another great origional song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fM2qhG8mA4

Another great origional and lovely song but <i like this version too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S55BlxoGFsM

Some great ones so far, here's a couple more…

Gin and Juice – The Gourds

Lost in Music – The Fall

Too Drunk to **** – Nouvelle Vague

Rufus Wainwright doing Lenny Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel"

"The Man Who Sold the World" by Nirvana

Nirvana Lake of Fire (Meat Puppets)

Sub Sub Southern Trees (not exactly a cover version, but heavily inspired by Strange Fruit)

The Chequers Get Up, Stand Up Marley/Tosh reggae classic gets disco makeover

I have fixed my first link here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XRNQ2C2x0

and will add this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVUZuVZWHkk

Ha! I love a good cover version, haven't clicked on all the links above and couldn't be bothered to find these on youtube but they're all good (IMO)

Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane
Pixies – Winterlong
Flunk – Blue Monday
Taken by Trees – Sweet Child 'o' Mine
Headless Heroes – Just Like Honey
Caulfield Sisters – Please, please, please etc. (the Smiths song) and Some Candy Talking
Clayhill – Please, please, please etc
Ada – Maps
Carter USM – Panic and This is how it Feels (the Inspiral Carpets song)
and many more!

Good shout on the Fall's Victoria and This Mortal Coil Song to the Siren 🙂

as part of a quest to find new music i have listened to every one of those links lol!
I'm surprised neither of these have been said yet…
Sweet child of mine – taken by trees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dqVDQ-lF4Q

Numb – Jamelia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLF_RphAv5Q

Also, already mentioned. "Running up that Hill" by Placebo and "Man who sold the world" by Nirvana are both superb…

Excellent thread! 🙂

edit, billyboulders beat me to it with Taken by trees… Me and my slow typing.. D'oh!

Pogues' Dirty Old Town is great; follow the link to "Cinnamond" doing the same song and "WTF is that second rate quo copy!"

anyway.
+1 for This Mortal Coil – Song To The Siren.
May I also suggest these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dQV_8hhKZg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mgmXng5rto – better version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4kVBdVBn9w

Lost in the Supermarket – The Afghan Whigs

Four – Alarm Will Sound

Love that someone has gone to the trouble of transcribing digitally borne music for an orchestra to cover the Aphex Twin 🙂

Stayin' Alive – Dweezil Zappa, with Donny Osmond on vocals:

Dinosaur Jr covering The Cure's 'Just like Heaven'

http://tinyurl.com/krk74l

John Drummer, Sisters Knockin on Heavens Door! A classic how did I leave that one out – Good shout

May I also recommend their version of Jolene (if you can find it!)

And you forgot this Sisters one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCzgOwrHedg

+1 Sonic Youth 'Superstar'.

Always had a penchant for Trickys 'Black Steel'.

Rainbow – still I'm sad

Jose Feliciano – California Dreamin'
orig – Mammas n papas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5rVgxmekeM&feature=related

little wing

brilliant cover

Love Hangover by the Associates.

I love this one… Abba gone Therapy?

Gimme Gimme Gimme

There's something really pleasingly ramshackle and offkilter about the whole thing.

And I might regret this, but… Marmaduke Duke doing Beyonce
Woah oh oh

This one seemed to upset people, but it works for me

It takes one to know one

"markfu – Member

China Drum – Wuthering Heights"

Wooo!

I find this haunting; but that may be due to the end of year show from my eldest daughter's dance school. Two of the senior students danced to this and there wasn't a dry eye in the place with the way they interpreted it (except mine, of course, because I don't cry, ever, honest)

And slightly more fun

Listen through for the classic guitar break at about 2:20.

and:

Both from the seminal Ruby Tracks CD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Trax

yeah cool version of little wing. And err… Andrea Corr… Um!

Leatherface doing Abbas 'eagle'

NOFX – doing 'straight edge'

Pretty much anything by snuff or the gimme gimmes

+1 for dinosaur jr – just like heaven

Ah, Straight Edge is fantastic, I'd forgotten about that…

All of Paul Anka's Rock Swings album is fantastic too.

I get up!

Slow Gin – Joe Bonamassa. Brilliant!!

+1 Hurt by Johnny Cash
+1 for all of snuff's covers

Also ….
Motorhead by Primal Scream
Number of The Beast by Djali Zwan
Reverend Horton Heat's psychobilly cover of Paranoid
Peter Skellern – Puttin on the Ritz
Cake – I will survive
and can't really leave out Bill Shatner's cover of Common People

With A Little Help From My Friends, Joe Cocker – by far the definitive version.

if you're talking "Paranoid", nothing beats this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c37GdAzgQo

and also from the same band, "Eve Of Destruction", "Nights in White Satin" and of course, the seminal Banana Splits

'Young Man Blues' played 'Live at Leeds' by The Who.

Originally titled 'A Young Man', by Mose Allison.

Ace of spades by hayseed dixie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y21VecIIdBI maybe this link works sonic youth do superstar

The drummer singing in foo fighters version of pink Floyds have a cigar

The Pixies covering Leonard Cohen's I Can't Forget

Nick Cave Shane Macgowan Wonderful World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_caTQGryzSY

All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bng3agUOYiI

Timperley Sunset – Frank Sidebottom

Too many to mention by The Black Crowes but I will anyway.
Oh sweet nothing- Velvet Underground
Forever Young and Girl From The North Country – Bob Dylan
Hard To Handle – Otis Redding
The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down – The Band
Over The Hill – John Martyn
Driving Wheel – Tom Rush
Roll Um Easy – Little Feat

Or Neil Young doing Oh Lonesome Me or Blowin In The Wind
The Stones doing Like a Rolling Stone
Hendrix doing All Along The Watchtower or Wild Thing
The White Stripes doing i Just don't Know What To Do With Myself

whoever said All Saints, I hope you were joking

Ramones My Back Pages (Bob Dylan)
Ramones Do You Wanna Dance (Bobby Freeman)
Jose Gonzalez Heartbeats (The Knife)

There's loads of others but I like covers that are quite a different take on the original

Had forgotten about that Pixies cover of Leonard Cohen's I Can't Forget 🙄 It's superb 🙂

Here's a last three for the evening before I get completely lost trawling through records/mp3s/the internets.

Ford Mustang – Mike Patton (Serge Gainsbourg)

Get Down Make Love – Nine Inch Nails (Queen)

Bitches Brew – nomeansno (Miles Davis)

mike flowers pops wonderwall.. ?

Kiss Kiss by Holly Valance