Your favourite cover versions?

[admin]

Just found this one today. Pretty cool.

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

[Shane Phelan]

Probably this, I prefer it over the original though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIh3nO6-V_A

[irish_goat]

Kelly Jones has the perfect voice for this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X93LxRfH93k

[barkar]

Jeff buckley  covering mc5 'kick out the jams' on live at the Olympia Paris or pattie smith covering Gloria  on horses

[delzep]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_22IE2ZTiE
Busker covering Wu Tang Clan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhzisgnORT0
Gareth Pearson doing Thriller

[Dunkel]

For me, the best cover version; better than the original, is the Rolling Stones' version of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away". Then again, The Animals did a also a far better job imho of "House of the Rising Sun" than Woody Guthrie. Just showing my age, methinks 

[Metattron]

One of my favourites was from a compilation of cover versions from 1992 which included many excellent covers, called Ruby Trax.  It was released by NME to raise money for the Spastics Society.  Track listing here:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Ruby-Trax-The-NMEs-Roaring-Forty/release/1187528

But my favourite was this :


http://youtu.be/T7DzlM3AWh4

Though I also have a lot of time for Elbows cover of Independant Women:

http://youtu.be/zSQDR1yF3uQ

[Bazza]

Predictably going for Uncle Al and the boys.

20 years on and still disturbing. They added some of their own lyrics too. Either that or I just don't remember Rod Stewart mentioning KY jelly in the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6zqYSezqwo&feature=player_detailpage


-Barry

[Dunkel]

Is that not you in the video, Bazza? 

[Bzfeale80]

Hard to beat Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley from his album Grace. Gets the hairs standing on back of my neck every time I hear it 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIF4_Sm-rgQ

[Jacob]

Here's one of mine favourite covers :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aF9AJm0RFc

[DEMPSEY]

Shadowfax playing "Santana's Black Magic Woman". they should have being discovered :

[mr hoppy]

Bazza's post reminds me of this lost classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqkgLgMjt3A

[Weiss]

Despite hating REM, I love this cover. 

[delzep]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geLR_0_mLYM

Black Sabbath - Warning