Polyphonic spree musy have a nirvna thing, saw them doing smells like teen spirit too.
Can never remember the amazing ones from here but a list I need to get back to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_a_Version#Volume_Six_(2010)

My favourite version of an old folk record which Cash and Dylan and many others have covered to:

Devos deconstruction of Satisfaction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadvt7CbH1o

I’m now sat here listening to a lot of Beverley Knight

I think Beverley Knight has been underrated by the general populous for many years. The audio version I alluded to played at proper volume really pulls the emotional strings its so powerful.

Liking this at the mo:

What, no votes for Robbie Williams 😀

Slade have done some amazing covers.

for example

Imelda May version of Tainted Love

Slightly shoutier Marilyn Manson version

Wonderfully haunting version of In The End, by Us

uptown funk covered by against the current

hackney colliery band -Africa

black betty by spiderbait

and, err, this (well i like it)

oh, and this

Devos deconstructed Satisfaction
Miss You by The Concretes
Ciccone Youth doing Into The Groove

I really like this cover of Dancing in the Dark

Come up and See me (Make me smile) by the Weddoes

or Live and Let Die by GnR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b74lbEqLxtI

Here’s a couple (I’m not going to attempt to embed a link it never works for me):
Associates doing John I’m only Dancing (originally unsanctioned by Bowie but later approved I believe) and….
Aztec Cameras version of Jump

This is a quite different version to the original – stick with it, or FFWD to 3:10 for the big noise guitars

Wedding Present covering Back for Good by Take That

In fact there was great NME triple disc of 40* classic number ones covered by various artists that is worth seeking out, most if not all are on youtube.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Trax

Where do you go to my Lovely covered by Welfare Heroine is a dubbed up masterpiece; Billy Bragg does disco is also great,

* actually 39 iirc but Vic Reeves’ “cover version” of Vienna was allowed in for its sheer interpretative quality even though Vienna only made #2

Brother Rays version of Wichita lineman

and as for Tainted Love – Marc Almond’s big band cover of his own song is not bad, but Say Hello Wave Goodbye is glorious (dahhling) even if his voice can’t quite hit the tops like before.

(I’m taking that back….. he was pitch perfect that night)

Beverley Knight is hugely underrated generally. She’s a truly world class soul singer, and hardly gets the recognition she deserves.

plus several hundred…

Bobby Womack? Hugely underrated Soul impresario

not in the soul world where he’s a bit of a god

not in the soul world where he’s a bit of a god

Is he? By golly, so he is.🤷‍♂️

Wonder Wall by Mike Flowers was so good it was pretty much the end of Oasis.

Back on topic..

Sade, quite simply the awesome Sade.. covered Why Can’t We Live Together, a song by Timmy Thomas..

It is, spectacular… if you can, please play it as loud as your ears will allow… and listen for the space between the notes..

Brother Rays version of Wichita lineman

whereas other versions might be good I don’t think anything can top Glen.

I like Terranova’s cover of the Au Pair’s song ‘Headache (for Michelle)’

Idles definitely made this their own (song from Dirty Dancing)

But my fave cover is Big Black’s Cheap Trick cover. Filthy guitar sound..

Are they underrated? Dunno!

only joking…

and live :

I’ve always loved this;

Radiohead – Nobody Does it Better

Johnny Was- Stiff Little Fingers

Wicked game – Ursine Vulpine ft Annaca

Just seen this in the YouTube comments:

Random Guy
10 months ago
I can’t stop listening to this masterpiece. It’s so soothing, so magical, so emotional, so soft, yet so powerful, so good that it gave me chills the thousands of times that I’ve heard this amazing creation. I am addicted to this song, and I always will be. This is, no doubt, one of the best songs I’ve ever heard in my 15 years of living, and it will always be one of the best songs ever.

😂

Brother Rays version of Wichita lineman

whereas other versions might be good I don’t think anything can top Glen.

This one really works for me despite being an instrumental. I love the increasing broken guitar tones.

Friends of Dean Martinez – Wichita lineman

Snatch – Another Brick in the Wall

Thanks to those who put Little Roy and Hackney Colliery Band on my radar

How about a Star Trek/Hendrix crossover?
All Along the Watchtower by Spirit.

Halestorm have done 3 EPs of covers called ReAnimate, 1.0, 2.0. and 3.0.

Their cover of Skid Row’s Slave To The Grind is better than the original.

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Steel Panther cover Backstreet Boys

whereas other versions might be good I don’t think anything can top Glen.

100% agree.

OP needs the Bangles link. A pal posted the other day that Susanna Hoffs is 60😮.

And a couple of takes on Alone Again Or.

some of my favorites already above – Johnny Cash/Hurt, Bangles/Hazy Shade, Suzanna and the magic orchestra

Stevie’s cover of We can Work it Out

Great Bowie Covers –
Seu Jorge’s whole album from the Life Aquatic but this in particular. Something rather lovely about a song you know so well sung in a foreign language

or Frida (from Abba)’s version

Stereo Total – Heroes. Properly lo-fi

John Cale cover of LCD Soundsystems All My Friends I love as much as the original

Hot Chip cover Vampire Weekend