Best cover of a song?

[Arkhangelsk]

What is the best cover of a song or melody you've heard? Let it be a classical arangement, video game music, a remade interpretation, anything.

My personal favorites are these two songs:

Spoiler: Everything Counts

Spoiler: Original version (also, am I the only one that finds it freaky that they dressed like that in the 80's?)

Spoiler: Cover

Spoiler: Super Mario World Overworld

Spoiler: Original

Spoiler: Cover

 

[MercurySteam]

The GH3 cover of Cliffs of Dover.

Just................awesome.

 

[Vlane]

We've been here before but whatever.

Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARkvr-bzbFY&feature=related (I know the audio is bad but I don't want to look for a better version)
Cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go&feature=related

 

[Blackadder51]

Last Kiss - Pearl Jam

Hallelujah - John Cale

 

[Dys]

I've always liked the Hendrix version of 'All along the watchtower' more than the original.

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

Both the Metallica and Thin Lizzy versions of "Whiskey in the Jar."

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

All along the watchtower:

Original: Dylan


Cover: Hendrix


Cover: Bear McCreary

 

[Ophiuchus]

The GH3 cover of Cliffs of Dover.

Just................awesome.

I wouldn't really call it a cover, it's just a straight remake since they couldn't license the master version. But yeah, it's brilliantly done, to the point where I honestly forget it's not the original.

Um, best covers then. Well, I was going to post a specific video, but I couldn't choose just one. So have their channel instead. Their version of that horrendous Beyonce song is really something special.

http://www.youtube.com/user/PomplamooseMusic

 

[sunami88]

Rage Against the Machine's version of Iggy Pop's Down on the Street.

Spoiler: Original: Iggy Pop

Spoiler: Cover: Rage Against the Machine

 

[Trivun]

Search on Youtube 'Radio 1 Live Lounge covers'. Listen to half the stuff on there, and you have song cover gold.

However, here's two of my favourites:

Spoiler: Original - Coldplay - Violet Hill

Spoiler: Cover - Pendulum - Violet Hill

Spoiler: Original - The Killers - When You Were Young

Spoiler: Cover - The Noisettes - When You Were Young

 

[Iron Criterion]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0QW3TZHxsA

This wins because it fails so much if that makes sense XD

 

[Queen Michael]

Johnny Cash's Hurt, of course.

Bruce Springsteen's Viva Las Vegas is a good second, though.

 

[Tempest Fennac]

I'd say the original version of Mad World by Tears for Fears, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZRib_aAQFQ , is inferiour to the Gary Jules cover, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4 , in pretty much every way (the tune and tempo for the cover actually go with the lyrics which is a huge improvement).

 

[Ryuk2]

System of a down - Metro

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

Spoiler: Since You've Been Gone - A Day to Remember

Spoiler: Gimme More (SID) - Machinae Supremacy

Spoiler: Over My Head (Cable Car) - A Day to Remember

Spoiler: You Spin Me Right Round - Dope

Spoiler: Baby Got Back - Throwdown

Spoiler: All About Us - Sonic Syndicate

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

This Flight Tonight
Original: Joni Mitchel, Cover: Nazareth

Hurt
Original: NIN, Cover: Johnny Cash

All Along The Watchtower
Original: Bob Dylan, Cover: Jimi Hendrix

Whiskey in the Jar
Original: Traditional Irish, Cover: Thin Lizzy (Personally I don't rate the Metallica version)

Hallelujah
Original: Leonard Cohen, Cover: Jeff Buckley

There are so many more though.

 

[aruseusx]

Death - Painkiller (Judas Priest)

 

[saintchristopher]

Rebekah del Rio's Spanish version of Roy Orbison's "Crying," featured in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, is one of the most effective pieces of vocal music I've ever heard.

I won't link a video, because seeing it within the context of the movie makes it that much better.

 

[Disaster Button]

Spoiler: Poker Face - Lady GaGa

Spoiler: Poker Face - You Me At Six

That cover kicks massive ass.