Myself and my other music mad mate are compiling a Spotify playlist of great cover versions. Any input to be had.
Dissapointlingly there are some songs noit available such as Arcade Fire doing ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fun’ and Teenage Fanclub covering Like a Virgin and Bright Eyes doing Elliott Smiths The Biggest Lie (my all time favourite)

Off the top of my head:

Belle and Sebastian – Here Comes The Sun, Boys are Back in Town, I’m Waitin’ For The Man.
Ben Folds-Tiny Dancer
The Flaming Lips- Bohemian Rhapsody, The Golden Age, Knives Out, Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
Happy Mondays-Step On
Jeff Buckley-Hallalujah
Johnny Cash-One, Hurt, Bridge Over Troubled Water, In My Life, We’ll Meet Again, I Won’t Back Down
Bellowhead-I Want To See Bright Lights Tonight
The White Stripes-Jolene, I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself
The Clash-I fought the Law, Police & Thieves
Oasis-I Am The Walrus
Tricky-Black Steel
The Housemartins-Caravan Of Love
Aretha Franklin-Respect
Jimi Hendrix-All Along The Watchtower
Merry Clayton-Gimme Shelter
Blondie-Hanging On The Telephone

Discuss.

ben folds- such great heights

Couple of obvious ones:

Pogues – Dirty Old Town
Soft Cell – Tainted Love

One of my favourites:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnuF9WSDydA[/video]

China Girl-Bowie

Laibach – Across the Universe
William Shatner – Common People
Age of Chance – Kiss
Nina Gordon – Straight out of Compton

Van Halen – You really got me

Oooh, Didn’t know VH had covered that!!!

Frazier Chrous – Anarchy in the UK
Aztec Camera – Jump
Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane.

[video]https://youtu.be/cGQyhBKd1So[/video]

Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover) – Ray Lamontagne
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mEfDSP4g_U[/video]

Can’t beat the Hoff’s cover of Hooked on a Feeling.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8[/video]

Portishead – S.O.S. (ABBA)
Fever Ray – Mercy Street (Peter Gabriel)
Tortoise and Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen)
Low – Blue Christmas (Elvis et. al.)
Cat Power – Sea of love (Phil Phillips)
Grace Jones – Warm Leatherette (The Normal)

Anything by Oasis.

Nirvana – The man who sold the world

Already mentioned, but its ace. Miles better than the original

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COtZZmWKcRI[/video]

And this is utter genius…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTNC9l46oR4[/video]

The Sick Anchors – Whole again (Atomic Kitten)

Anything by Oasis.

I’m sure the Ruttles appreciate the royalty cheques 🙂 I think they get 20% of ‘Whatever’.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMUTiASn2B8[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b6dO2wouhQ[/video]
Obvz

Family – My Friend The Witch Doctor
Julie and Buddy Miller – Keep Your Distance
Rolling Stones – Just My Imagination
The Stranglers – Walk On By
Richard Thompson – Oops I Did It Again
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Little Wing
Townes van Zandt – Dead Flowers
Frank Zappa – Whipping Post, Ring Of Fire, Stairway To Heaven

Guy Garvey did an acoustic cover of Bowies Lets Dance, live, when he died and its utterly gorgeous

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RYzoZLR7w[/video]
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyvjwIfC6Xs[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lB6xW-CWKg[/video]

I find it utterly mesmerising.

Actuually there’s a load of interesting ones on here:

Billy Bragg does disco? When his guitar comes in at 2:19 it’s great.

Guy Garvey did an acoustic cover of Bowies Lets Dance, live, when he died and its utterly gorgeous

Guy Garvey, dead?

Black Crowes – Hard to handle
Happy mondays – Step on
Joss Stone – Fell in love with a boy
Jimi Hendrix – All along the Watchtower

He can’t die. He’s pickled! 😉

Chk chk chk – Take Ecstacy With Me
Lemonheads- Different Drum (best cover ever (probably))
Sex Pistols – Stepping Stone & No Fun
Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy & Fools Rush In (oh yes!)
The Slits – Heard it through the Grapevine

Killing Joke’s excellent time-travel cover of Nirvana’s ‘Come As You Are’

[video]http://youtu.be/x1U1Ue_5kq8[/video]

Ooh hang on, just remembered Futureheads – Hounds of Love.

Eels – Get Ur Freak On

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXLaNeyffzQ[/video]

Stiff Little Fingers – Johnny Was

Suzanna and the Magical Orchestra’s version of Love will tear us apart is quite haunting

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHhVydgvuAc[/video]

Waiting around to die by Lemonheads
Dead Flowers by Townes Van Zandt

Beastie Boys-Benny and the jets. Genius if you’re just the right level of drunk.

Low – Blue Christmas (Elvis et. al.)

Porky Pig – Blue Christmas 🙂

Worth a fortune if you were ever to find a copy on vinyl! Super rare. I sent a copy on CDR out with christmas cards one year and a mate though it was a recording of me and my girlfriend.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg7HvF3a_Iw[/video]

reel big fish : take on me.

me first and the gimme-gimmes : rocketman

Can’t see the videos as I am at work, did anyone say Gun – Word Up yet?

Hope not 😉

Rolling Stones-I Wanna Be Your Man

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_pm2wPR5u4[/video]