Machine Head’s Battery is better than the original at everything, but Robb just doesn’t quite have the voice… I do like a metal cover though.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya8N9FhMq5s[/video]
ChrisL mentioned Frank Turner, so here’s a definitely unexpected cover- who’d have thought a whiny english guy could out Boss the Boss?
(aside; yes, this does make a happier song miserable; but Bruce originally wrote Thunder Road as a miserable song; he was “encouraged” to change the lyrics and give it the big band sound. He wrote the Promise later to tell us how those kids end up… I love that about Frank’s version, it’s all desperation and false bravado, 2 kids that know they’re jumping off a cliff.)