Cover Me: Best cover songs, some better than the original?

[neonorchid]

 

[Puck it]

Love Canon

 

[crgildart]

Not necessarily better than the original, but definitely HUGE..

 

[skibob]

Worst Cover?

Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics)

 

[SShore]

I love it when a song jumps genres. Suspicious Minds by the King

And a better version (watching out for a lightning strike) from The Fine Young Cannibals

 

[SShore]

Buggs Bunny's brilliant cover of Rossini's Overture from The Barber of Seville. Most everything I know about classical music I learned from Buggs.

 

[Philpug]

Buggs Bunny's brilliant cover of Rossini's Overture from The Barber of Seville. Most everything I know about classical music I learned from Buggs.

a little known fact about Bugs, he got every one of his cartoons in the first take, truly a professional.

 

[crgildart]

And DKs cover Elvis.. One of my first punk albums..

 

[SKI-3PO]

http://www.vevo.com/watch/simon-garfunkel/the-sound-of-silence/USSM21100303

 

[neonorchid]

 

[neonorchid]

possibly my favorite version, (and I'm one guy who can't make up his mind about anything) -
and the original -

 

[crgildart]

Paul Young did a decent cover of this a little after these guys did Chi Lites Oh Girl..

 

[neonorchid]

I prefer the original sung by Beth Gibbons by a long shot, still, there is something about Lisa Hannigan's Irish accent that I like of her cover -

 

[Xela]

Bauhaus doing Bowie's Ziggy Stardust

Lick the Tins doing Elvis's Can't Help Falling in Love

Two Nice Girls doing Speed Racer (and also a check out their Feel Like Making Love)

Tuck & Patti doing Jimi Hendrix's Castles Made of Sand & Little Wing

Sister Carol doing Wild Thing

7 Seconds doing Nena's 99 Red Balloons

The (English) Beat doing Tears of a Clown

Red Hot Chili Peppers doing Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues

Iz doing Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Cowboy Junkies doing Lou Reed's Sweet Jane

 

[Xela]

And the eleventh one...

Doctor & The Medics doing Spirit in the Sky

 

[dean_spirito]

I'm a sucker for a good bluegrass cover.....

 

[crgildart]

Iz doing Somewhere Over the Rainbow

 

[neonorchid]

the orginal -

 

[neonorchid]

numero uno -

 

[Stev]

Dread Zeppelin - Heartbreaker (At The End Of Lonely Street)
Two covers in one.