What are your favorite song covers?

My favorite cover of all time is The Righteous Brothers "Unchained Melody" covered by Atlas Sound.

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love covered by Thursday

"Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower"

"TheGreatGuero said:

"Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower"

This or Johnny Cash's "Hurt""

hopefully this keeps rolling, I want to add a "covers" playlist

"TheGreatGuero said:

"Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower"

This or Johnny Cash's "Hurt""

Tool - No Quarter, Led Zeppelin cover.

"RHCPfan24 said:

"TheGreatGuero said:

"Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower"

This or Johnny Cash's "Hurt""

Oh god. That was such a beautiful cover. The music video is really devastating. It's just him, with no makeup on, singing into the camera with bits of video from him when he was younger put in. It's so sad yet beautiful to be singing songs and recording them when you are about to die. Even watching the video makes you feel old."

Apoptygma Berzerk's cover of Fade to Black is amazing.

Was going to say Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt, but since someone alreayd said it, I'll say Mindless Self Indulgence's cover of Tom Sawyer. 

Crossroads- Cream

All Along the Watchtower- Jimi Hendrix.

I Shot the Sheriff- Eric Clapton

Not Fade Away- Grateful Dead

El Paso- Grateful Dead

Man of Constant Sorrow- Bob Dylan

Young Man Blues- The Who

Summertime Blues- The Who

Black Magic Woman- Santana

i dont know
im sort of into rap an dhip hop and metal and rock

Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever" covered by Pantera.

Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel's "White Lines" covered by Duran Duran.

Joy Division's "Shadowplay" covered by The Killers.

Wings "Live and Let Die" covered by Guns N' Roses.

Donna Summers "I Feel Love" covered by The Blue Man Group.

T. Rex "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" covered by The Power Station.

Stevie Wonder "Higher Ground" covered by The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

KC & The Sunshine Band "I'm Your Boogie Man" covered by White Zombie.

"Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower"

Im surprised this didnt get said already since Guitar Hero: Metallica is pretty recent but Am I Evil is a really good cover, so is Castles Made of Sand by RHCP.

"Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower"

Foo Fighter's cover of Band on the Run and Weezer's cover of Velouria

The dude in the first video is awesome.

**Edit: I'm guessing that's Peter Gabriel.

Only one I can think of off the top of my head is 'Lonely Day' by System of a Down. Those guys knew how to harmonize.

therion does some good scorpions covers.

Anything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Pennywise - Stand by me

Jimmy Barnes - Many Rivers to Cross

coulda sworn there was another thread like this around here.

My favorite cover song right now would have to be take on me, covered by RBF. So fucking catchy.

To be different, I'll say Far's version of "Monkey Gone to Heaven" and Saul Williams's cover of U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday". I say that they don't outdo the original source material, but do a good job making it somewhat different from the original material, and also making it totally listenable.

But of course, the greatest cover ever is Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" covered by Johnny Cash, as mentioned here many times. It blows my mind how freaking melancholy and powerful that song is, especially compared to an already messed-up song (in the "good", emotional way) like "Hurt". It's to the extent where Johnny Cash's version is better than Trent Reznor's original interpretation of the song, which truth be told, is quite challenging. Also, I vastly prefer the softer, piano version of Mad World that's seen in that Gears of War trailer than the original Tears for Fears one.

By the way, thank you Nick for reminding me how awesome Weezer's version of Velouria is, and thank you Meltbrain for introducing me to TV on the Radio's cover of Mr. Grieves. It's easily another of one of my favorite covers now.

Oh yeah I forgot about Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah, that one is awesome.

Van Halen covered "Oh, Pretty Woman", "Where Have All the Good Times Gone?", and  "You Really Got Me.", and each version was better than the originals.

I know I'll catch some grief from the purists but I really dig the song below...

Knockin' on Heaven's Doors - Guns n' roses

Madcon - Beggin

Damn, that song is hot! :D

Johnny Cah's Hurt is definetly up there for me, but this one is also a personal favorite:

"Oh yeah I forgot about Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah, that one is awesome."

i really like alexisonfire's cover of sweet leaf, it might be better then black sabbaths version

"Nick said:

"Oh yeah I forgot about Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah, that one is awesome."

John Cale's version is so much better. I'm not sure how popular it is but if you've seen a few episodes of Scrubs, you've probably heard it."

Darkthrones song Cromlech coverede by Illdisposed, or the Carcass song Corporal Jigsaw Quandary coverede by The Berzerker

I love Rise Against's cover of Journey's Any Way You Want it.

A Perfect Circle's cover of Imagine

Tool's cover of No Quarter

Nirvana's cover of Man Who Sold the World

Nirvana's cover of Plateau

Bobby Darin's version of Beyond the Sea

Tiny Tim's version of Living in the Sunlight (It works much better than Bing Crosby's)

Any Valentina Lisitsa piano composition

Hurt as already been mentioned several times so Brimful of Asha by Fatboy Slim.

I Will Survive by Cake.
Also, Brimful of Asha isn't technically a cover, it's a remix.

Disturbed-Land of Confusion

"I Will Survive by Cake.Also, Brimful of Asha isn't technically a cover, it's a remix."

"Is anyone even bothering to read earlier posts?"