There are load of covers which improve on the original (Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower was terrible, Hendrix’s was remarkable), but what’s the least likely?
I’m going for:
Oops I Did It Again – Richard Thompson
Stairway To Heaven – Dolly Parton (or Rolf Harris, even stranger)
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds – William Shatner
Iron Man – The Cardigans
Sweet Jane – The Cowboy Junkies
Stayin' Alive - Ozzy Osbourne
Shatner's cover of Common People is superb
Nina Gordon's cover of 'Straight out of Compton' is a good giggle
Also all of Laibachs covers of pretty much everything, including covering the whole Beatles 'Let it Be' album putting quite sinister overtones to lyrics like "...get back to where you once belonged..."
Stayin' Alive - Ozzy Osbourne
That's off the scale! Must trawl Youtube......
EDIT: Just listened to it - wincingly awful.
Wonderwall - Mike Flowers Pops
Love Machine - Arctic Monkeys
"You're the one that I want" from Grease, Arthur Mullard and Hylda Baker, chuuuune!!
I believe in miracles- you sexy thing Cud 
Black eyed peas' "Caroline" bluegrass style by Hayseed Dixie
Nirvana's "Rape me" covered by Lounge singer Richard Cheese
Smoke on the Water, in the Cha Cha Cha rhythm by Senor Coconut and his Orchestra
All brilliant tracks, funny because of the contrast (Rape Me done to ridiculous levels of frothy cheeryiness) and very well arranged and played, too.
Worst one - Ellie Goulding doing Elton John's 'Your Song.'
It was improbable to my ears. 
Blitzkrieg Bop - Beautiful South
London based Ukranian band who did Smiths covers on traditional instruments and in Ukranian.
Improbable but it actually works.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZPtnuPKyu4
more here;
ooh, they did Anarchy in the UK too;
Nina Gordon's cover of 'Straight out of Compton' is a good giggle
Such a good version as well
Rock Swings by Paul Anka is a classic album, Enter Sandman by Pat Boone has to be heard to be believed.
For proper covers, Rythyms Del Mundo from Buena Vista Social Club is very good.
911 is a joke - Duran Duran 
Duran Duran's Come Up And See Me (Make Me Smile) really wasn't good.
Soma FM devotes a whole channel to covers here: http://somafm.com/covers/
Now playing Disco 200 sung by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
today I stumbled on beatles covers in the style of metallica:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA_CgX2ihVg
and an lullaby version of the Pixies (ahhhhhh):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLVEVmbL0bw
but I do like a bit of dread:
Article monkeys singing girls aloud's love machine on radio 1. Unlikely and good as well.
Tom Hodge's cover of Aerodynamic by Daft Punk
Tori Amos - Smells like teen spirit
Mark Ronson - "Just"
Some 70s Eurovision types making quite a decent fist of Black Sabbath and The Rattles. I think they included some future members of Boney M.
leaving here (Holland-Dozier-Holland 60's Motown hit) by Motorhead.
Feeling good - Muse! What a fantastic cover!
I Believe in Miracles - Pearl Jam
Into the Groove - Sonic Youth
All that she wants - The Kooks
Teenage Dirtbag - Girls Aloud
Lost in Music, by The Fall.
Love the Cake version of 'I will survive'.
Brilliant track.
Get your freak on - Eels
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - The Cardigans
Tom Jones is on R6 at the moment ruining Talking Heads' Burning Down the House 
Smells like teen spirit - Paul Anka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM_xvTaYavw
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