Best Cover Version?

[Mudcrab]

Meytal Cohen : Toxicity

Damn, that was impressive!

[DrRocka]

Me! 
http://soundcloud.com/sean-keefe/someone-to-pull-the-trigger

[Third Estate Ned]

Nice one DrRocka, that's some voice you've got there. Good idea for a thread, too. Can I have five?

1) I always liked Smashing Pumpkins' 1994 cover of Depeche Mode's Never Let Me Down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oipMgVLFJxI

2) I didn't even know Shudder to Think's rendition of So Into You was a cover, originally by Atlanta Rhythm Section: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWjx8m6OOnU

The original is nothing like it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpPdLb69-qk

3) Does Jethro Tull's version of Bach's Bourée count? Well, it should: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RNe2jwHE0

4) Pantera's version of The Badge originally by Poison Idea puts some beef on the original, which is still great.

Pantera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqh8Qn46JW0

Poison Idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsKk_6Tg6Y

5) Rage Against the Machine's rockified Renegades of Funk, originally by Afrika Bambaataa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPOMkdpBAoA

Uniquely ace original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYzakWz3JxU

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Hayseed Dixie do some excellent cover versions, I saw them live and they rattled through Bohemian Rhapsody in about 5 minutes, it was excellent. And then they did a whole hill-billy Mozart number. Those guys put on a great show

[DrRocka]

Gotta love Chris Isaak rockin' up Cheap Trick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ymEJN6U000&feature=related

and Willie Nelson lettin' out some Pearl Jam is ruddy luvverly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow-Cx9IX4So

and can't bit a bit of Eddie covering The Boss: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvMFdAtsRTg&feature=related

ps, cheers, Ned!

[Patrick]

• Union Avenue do The Ace of Spades, in such a way you're half-convinced that Motorhead must have covered Johnny Cash
• Jonathan Coulton transforms Baby Got Back
• Beth Rowley does George Formby's Leaning on a Lamppost as blues

[Judge Delboy]

The Fall - Lost in Music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P0OYWZeiCI

[klute]

I really love crowbars cover of led zeppelins no quarter :- http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fasyYUPxCD4

[Mudcrab]

I really love crowbars cover of led zeppelins no quarter :- http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fasyYUPxCD4

Love it!

Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
California Uber Alles Interesting live one from The Word, of all despicable places.

And speaking of Jello...

LARD
They're Coming to Take Me Away (Napoleon XIV)

Ministry, just found this!
Paranoid

[Dandontdare]

I'm partial to this one - Tori Amos - Smells like teen spirit

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

The Beautiful South: Don't Stop Moving.

[Greg M.]

One of the many cracking b-sides on Therapy?'s particularly bountiful singles - a cover of The Membranes' 'Tatty Seaside Town'

[NapalmKev]

Sepultura have done an amazing cover to The Prodigy song 'Firestarter' which can be found on the Kairos album. And for all you non-metal types there's a blistering cover of a Napalm Death song (Control) by Agoraphobic Nosebleed. Or if you prefer there's a cover of Soungarden's 'Rusty Cage' by Johnny Cash.

(sorry no links, my iPhone is shit!)

Cheers 

[Jim_Campbell]

Cash's cover of Hurt, together with the video, is one of the most affecting things I've ever seen.

The Inappropriate Cover has long been a staple of the goth scene, and many bands have contributed to the oeuvre in style:

The usually execrable Him doing a fine cover of Chris Isaak's Wicked Game

The Dreadful Shadows cover Twist In My Sobriety by Tanita Tikaram

The Merry Thoughts' surprisingly effective cover of Will You by Hazel O'Connor

Rosetta Stone's version of Heaven 17's Temptation

And, of course, the Sisters of Mercy's mighty cover of Jolene by Dolly Parton

(The Sisters link is the best quality recording of that song I've ever heard, BTW.)

Cheers

Jim

[judda fett]

For me its got to be Nina Gordens cover of N.W.A's 'Straight Outta Compton.

http://youtu.be/NG2EGOB9-lc