[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT7Ewy6Rku4[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G-wZ5uY0_o[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjy3jWLz4Fk[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09mUVED_bZA[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdkBs0VCSX0[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVAZYI6IDTM[/video]

More Easy Star All Stars –

this is She’s Leaving Home from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2-TFoujNeU[/video]

Sounds far too cheerful, but I love it 😀

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ux0EA-YDGk[/video]

I’ll risk a shoeing 8)

Can I just say in my defence: About a minute and a half in?

*swoons*

Gun – Word Up. May not be the best song ever, but in terms of covers, it must be in the running for “most improved”

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EWKphU0c5Q[/video]

a silly one now…
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aLpwtaLDw8&feature=related[/video]

Wipe Out by the Fat Boys. Always loved this.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt0LBlH3dAc[/video]

Underrated band, excellent cover.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXGNjB3vc[/video]

Heard this recently, familiar enough that I knew the song but not so much it seemed like a pastiche (video is the only one I can find but the pink, stripping stormtrooper adds a little to it anyway)
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7IYdISg-6c[/video]

Mudhoney Revolution, originally by spaceman 3

The man who sold the world – Nirvana

When I saw the thread I was praying no-one would suggest that one! Although I love it, listen to the original and you soon realise it is vastly inferior.

One from me – She by Elvis Costello.

Or Motorhead by Motorhead

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka2h0BMdUgU[/video]

Futureheads – Hounds of Love

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-zDTanpY9Q[/video]

Apologies for the pic, not my choice.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHk5dSXWhaU[/video]

Automatic fail for putting up a cover by Amy Whitehouse, bloody woman’s barely capable of turning in a competent version of her own songs, let alone anyone else’s.
Anyhoo, one or two of mine:
Here, There and Everywhere by Emmylou Harris
Comfortably Numb, by Dar Williams
She’s Lost Control, by Grace Jones
Umbrella, by Mechanical Bride
Smells Like Teen Spirit, by Tori Amos
If 6 Was 9, by Tori Amos
Ring My Bell, by Tori Amos
Words, by Shawn Colvin
Dolphins, by Tim Buckley/Eddie Reader
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody), by Shawn Colvin

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hapufz1NFkY[/video]

Good find – had forgotten all about Nouvelle Vague

Automatic fail for putting up a cover by Amy Whitehouse, bloody woman’s barely capable of turning in a competent version of her own songs, let alone anyone else’s.

too flippin right, her ‘own’ songs are rip offs of others

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz-UvQYAmbg

jaysus, no jeff buckley – hallelujah?
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnxmkOAj88[/video]

or nirvana – jesus don’t want me for a sunbeam (though maybe not ‘better’ than the original, but certainly worthy of mention)
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdyqXSa5Bzc[/video]

Tainted love- soft cell

Bred2shred – Member
The man who sold the world – Nirvana

PMSL at that, a 3rd rate MTV grunge band who managed one decent album.

David Bowie’s version is the greatest song ever recorded, FACT 🙂

Teenage Fanclubs Like a Virgin: I dunno how turning a classic bit of pop music into a tedious boring guitar dirge makes it better?
rubbish

sonic youths version of Into the Groove on the other hand…
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIbsS8rEdFI[/video]

Take this job and shove it

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODIhgB2eF1c[/video]

PMSL at that, a 3rd rate MTV grunge band who managed one decent album.

You can always count on music threads for the terminal tryhards 🙄

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S1XSwV8W9U&feature=related[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDczlj-EvyM&feature=fvsr[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-3Hsru4QBY&feature=related[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUiTQvT0W_0[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJs3ooeQDYY[/video]

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

i wouldn’t say improved but i love this [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuyYqWPBWkE[/video] 😀 should have added the top video is the original.the bottom one by weird al yankovic beat it/eat it.

Not sure if it’s a massive improvement on the original, but it’s getting there.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXtTpv5f_s0[/video]

This, but the Nirvana one is even better:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X83J7Az2dG8[/video]

And this too:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a98umoWh7VU[/video]

Last one:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVZmSEpuJtg&feature=related[/video]

Chris Daughtry – I walk the line.

Whatever you think of reality pop star shows, this one stands out – ff to around 1min 20s

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxlfwHqLR2Y&feature=related[/video]

John Lennon – Stand by Me

another Dylan track greatly improved. The Byrds did a whole album of Dylan tracks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_7JI3o_b_4

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acULghgYUg0[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWWZx8P9MAA[/video]

Perhaps not ‘improved’ but just as good. A great story to accompany it too 😀
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5qCcROvlVk[/video]