[Closed] Best cover versions.

The Flying Ox - Member

Johnny Too Bad - Taj Mahal

thanks for that one

Here´s my pick:

Thrashing Doves - Sympathy For The Devil

and
Outkast - Spottieottie Til Infinity (cover/rips Souls of Mischief)

Elbow have done some great covers, funny and otherwise

Working Class Hero

Independent Woman

Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - Mark Ronson.

All Smiths fans should hate this, but it works. Morrisey likes it too, which is nice.

Just remembered this Neil Young cover from Laura Marling.

Some great suggestions already, but this is my all time favourite.

Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing' by Royal Trux:

It's what the original SHOULD have sounded like.

Nirvana doing Man who sold the world on unplugged

(cover of a Nate Dogg/Eve track)

and most of the tracks from RATM

Obviously the only decent cover versions are the ones that change the style of the song completely eg.

This one's a classic, rather surprised it's not already on here:

Here's a rather left field one I never thought I would post:

Shouldn't work, but it does, Scissor sisters - Comfortably numb

The Hayseed Dixie cover of Comfortably Numb is superb. A bit tricky to find however. Their covers of Ace of Spades and holiday are excellant as well.

“Stone Sour - Wicked Game”

Oops I did it again - Richard Thompson

I thought Leona Lewis did a really good job of Run... The backing's a wee bit overfussy but it's a fine vocal. Also, she's nicer to look at than Gary Lightbody

Loving that Elbow version of Independant Woman. The cats are the icing on the cake.

+1 for Nirvana ansd man who stole the world.

Also rather like Manic street preachers cover of Umbrella.

RIP Ari

FFS - Leona nailed 'Run' on the Live Lounge admittedly, but the produced version and Radio 1 killed it. Can't bear to listen to it - much prefer Snow Patrol and I don't really like Snow Patrol

Mechanical Bride [i]Umbrella[/i] (Rihanna)
Cheshire Chord [i]I Predict A Riot[/i]
Foo Fighters [i]Baker Street[/i]
Tori Amos [i]That's What I Like Mick[/i] (Chas & Dave)
Belly [i]Hot Burrito #1[/i]
Calexico [i]Alone Again Or[/i]

Van Halen- You really got me

Anything by Richard Cheese FTW -

😀

Oasis My generation and Sex Pistols Substitute and The Fall A day in the life.

and

give up on this linky thing

Cud - You sexy thing

The Fall - Ghost in my house
New Order - Turn the heater on