Glen Hansard's "You Ain't Going Nowhere"

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Obadiah Parker - Hey Ya

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I forgot about this. AWESOME cover.

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer by George Thorogood

Van Halen - Pretty Woman

SRV - Little Wing

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal (a case where the cover was way better than the original)

Mettalica - Whiskey in the Jar

Run-DMC - Walk This Way

Kula Shaker - Hush

G'n'R - Live and Let Die

Not a best, but rather one of the worst ever:
Winger - Purple Rain (I laughed so hard the first time I ever heard that one...)

I always like the Me First and Gimmie Gimmie versions of old songs (basically punk rock covers).

I never thought "Vincent" could ever sound good until NOFX covered it.

My favorite TVZ song made better by Jay Farrar & Kelly Willis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_RIkcye3OA

Been done by many, but my favorite cover of "Wonderwall" is from Cat Power: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeR1Mo8S7cs

And how can you forget "Black Betty" by Ram Jam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLnDuzgkjo

bam-a-lam

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Johnny Cash - Hurt

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this, for many reasons.

Vanilla Ice covering Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" but metal!

Machinehead - Message in a Bottle
Powerman 5000 - Let the Good Times Roll
Crowbar - Dream Weaver
Strapping Young Lad - Exciter
Stemage - Brinstar Theme

The Feelies covering the Velvet Underground's "What goes on."

I like it way better than the original.

Check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_59XEJxqq5c

TAF

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SRV - Superstition

NIN - Dead Souls (original by Joy Division)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Love Roller Coaster (Original by The Ohio Players)

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John Mayer- Free fallin'

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It's Breaking Benjamin's cover of Queen's Who Wants to Live Forever
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I made it thru about 45 seconds of that complete abortion

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This. That was an insult to Queen, Freddie Mercury, and music in general. Breaking Benjamin owes the people an apology.

I heard Alien Ant Farm's Smooth Criminal this weekend...I forgot how good it was. Also agree on everything Johnny Cash covers.

Can I add Bon Jovi's version of "Hallelujah" without getting killed? It's pretty good.

I also liked Prince's version of Along the Watchtower during the Super Bowl that morphed into Foo Fighter's Best of You. Good stuff.

the doors- alabama song

I've always liked Gary Moore's version of "Shapes of Things" from We Want Moore.

Nothing Compares 2 U- Sinead O'Conner

"Summertime Blues" by Blue Cheer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5uDozoSSM

Probably not a popular choice: Taylor Hawkins's "Have a Cigar".

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You by Led Zeppelin

Dixie Chicks - Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics)
No Doubt - It's My Life (Talk Talk - thanks birdman)
Clint Black - Desperado (Eagles)
Travis Tritt - Take It Easy (Eagles)
Allison Krauss - Missing You (John Waite)

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This sounds dumb, and you're right to be skeptical, but it's actually good. I promise.

Gregorian Comfortably Numb

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It's My Life was originally by Talk Talk. Good band that disappeared.

Everybody has listed a bunch of great covers. Sundays version of Wild Horses was great mention. Haunting cover.

Hendrix did about 10 awesome covers, hey joe, watchtower, etc. Stones have done a bunch of great covers over the years.

UB40 did awesome version of Red, Red Wine.

My favorite cover combines two of my top 5 artists. Ray Charles' version of Yesterday is brilliant.

i've always enjoyed every type o negative covor that they throw on each album. Hey Pete (Hey Joe), Paranoid, Summer Breeze, Cinnamon Girl, Day Tripper..

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I was just assuming that Shinedown post was a troll. It HAS to be

Lots of good ones already. Here are a few more that I like that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Tina and Ike-- Proud Mary
Jewel-- I'm on Fire
Willie-- Always on my Mind (originally an Elvis song)
Jack Ingram has a version of Road Goes on Forever that I like

somewhere out there is a website where you can look up a song and it will give you all the people who covered it. I had it bookmarked on an old work computer but adios MOFO

Anything by Me First & the Gimme Gimmes.
Second (or third) Johnny Cash - Hurt
Also, on the Muppets note... definitely their cover of Bohemian Rhapsody.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MuppetsStudio#p/u/0/tgbNymZ7vqY

- Eva Cassidy's cover of "Time After Time" (Cyndi Lauper)
- Naked Eyes' cover of "Always Something There to Remind Me" (Lou Johnson, although Dionne Warwick did the original demo recording)
- Van Halen's cover of "You Really Got Me" (The Kinks)