best cover version of a song

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viewaskew

17-07-2011

Gotta say the best ever cover versions of any song I've ever heard is between:

Muse - Feeling Good (Originally by Nina Simone)

and

Placebo - Running Up That Hill (Originally by Kate Bush)

Gulftastic

17-07-2011

Nanci Griffith (and Emmylou Harris) covering Kate Wolf's 'Across The Great Divide'.

Hound of Love

17-07-2011

Will add to my list but I'll start with

Donna Summer's covers of McArthur Park...and State of Independence

_Venger_

17-07-2011

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

cliffy91

17-07-2011

Leona Lewis - Run (snow patrol i think did it first??)

Cliff Richard - Best of me (kenny rogers first)

Madness - One Stop Beyond (Prince Buster first)

Shakin Stevens - This ole house

God Im sad

FiercelyHip

17-07-2011

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Love Spit Love - How Soon is Now
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World

hr100

17-07-2011

Originally Posted by FiercelyHip:
“Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah”

This!!!

Electra

17-07-2011

Roxy Music - Jealous Guy
Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Nilsson - Without You
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way
Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall & Sympathy For The Devil

danielleh

17-07-2011

Michael Andrews and Gary Jules - Mad World

viewaskew

17-07-2011

Originally Posted by cliffy91:
“Leona Lewis - Run (snow patrol i think did it first??)
”

Dear God..!

I like Leona...but she should NEVER have covered that!

She utterly ruined it for me!

cliffy91

17-07-2011

Originally Posted by viewaskew:
“Dear God..! I like Leona...but she should NEVER have covered that!

She utterly ruined it for me! ”

Sorry

Arcana

17-07-2011

Song To The Siren - This Mortal Coil (Tim Buckley)

spaceygal

18-07-2011

Wonderwall - Mike Flowers Pops. Bloody brilliant!

Midiboy

18-07-2011

Originally Posted by Hound of Love:
“Will add to my list but I'll start with

Donna Summer's covers of McArthur Park...and State of Independence”

Amen to this...

WPaulVanDyk

18-07-2011

too many to list but i like

Enrique Igleasis - Only You
Millie - My Boy Lollipop (Barbie Gaye original)
Dixie Chicks - You Can't Hurry Love
Lauren Alania - Candle in the Wind

orangerepeat

18-07-2011

Aretha Franklin - Dark End of the Street

My favorite song probably of all time. Actually I really, really love every cover Aretha has ever done, she's just brilliant.

J.B returns

18-07-2011

Beady Eye - Sons of the Stage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5gbkHaubrE

harveybest

18-07-2011

Jimi- All along the Watchtower
The Byrds- You aint going nowhwere
Derek and the Dominos- Little Wing

barneyboy

18-07-2011

Madonna - i want you

spaceygal

18-07-2011

Rock DJ - The Wurzels (from their Never Mind The Bullocks album): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaljNbsfQE

bodderz

18-07-2011

Originally Posted by spaceygal:
“Rock DJ - The Wurzels (from their Never Mind The Bullocks album): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaljNbsfQE”

Don't Look Back In Anger is pretty brilliant too, reminds me of Max And Paddy

Jonesy88

18-07-2011

Duffy - Ready for the Floor
Leona Lewis - Run
Adele - Make You Feel My Love
Lily Allen - Mr Blue Sky

Unigal07

18-07-2011

All of mine have already been mentioned

Leona Lewis - Run
Adele - Make You Feel My Love
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Muse - Feeling Good

Scrubber

18-07-2011

I prefer an MJ cover over the original.

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal

torworwor

18-07-2011

Wet Wet Wet - Love is All Around.
Eva Cassidy - Somewhere Over the Rainbow and Fields of Barley.
Take That - It Only Takes A Minute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G-wZ5uY0_o - Manics - Umbrella.
Oasis - I am the Walrus.

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