Best Song Covers

[Bernzz]

Korn's cover of Cameo's Word Up!
Korn's cover and blending of parts 1, 2 and 3 of Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd (Hey, I like both versions)
Disturbed's cover of Land of Confusion by Genesis
Disturbed's Shout 2000 (cover of another song, I can't properly remember if it was called Shout, also can't remember original artist)
Fear Factory's cover of Cars (can't remember original's artist)
Gary Jule's cover of Mad World

They're my favourites, anyway.

 

[Bucket0Bones]

Jimi Hendrixs cober of All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan
Between the Buried and Mes cover of Blackened by Metallica
Mastodons cover of Orion by Metallica

 

[demonsaber]

Metallica's 'Whiskey in the Jar', Snow Patrol's cover of Leona Lewis 'Run' (LOL), Chris Cornell's cover of 'Billie Jean'. the last is amazing, he has a fantastic voice. Word

Thin Lizzy version is better for Whiskey in the Jar

Johnny Cash's cover of the Nine Inch Nails song 'Hurt' I pretty good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

 

[xChevelle24]

I just wanted to know what the best song covers that you have heard are.

My personal favourites are this cover of "Kids" (MGMT) by The Kooks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NxxfHCP9TY

And this cover of "Baby One More Time" (Britney Spears) by August Burns red.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIrkggy2hY8

The ABR cover actually wasn't that great IMO, they could have done better. Nonetheless, it was still an awesome cover.

My favorite covers are:

Since U Been Gone - A Day To Remember
Over My Head (Cable Car) - A Day To Remember
Holy Diver - Killswitch Engage
You Give Love A Bad Name - Atreyu

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Nine Inch Nails: Dead Souls

that is a horrible cover version of that song, he missed the whole point of the long intro

i also forgot Supernaut by 1000 Homo DJs

tho It's a Wonderful World by Ministry is kinda funny too and the whole Cover Up album isn't bad, a couple bad versions on there tho

 

[Lord George]

I liked the Mad World cover by Gary Jules.

 

[Symp4thy]

I don't know if this was posted already, Hey Jude cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgrrQwLdME8

 

[Fingerprint]

King Kurtis' sax' cover of "Whiter Shade Of Pale" (the intro song you hear in "Withnail & I") - Original by Procal Harmon.

 

[Deschamps]

Last week on Scrubs, Sam Lloyd (who plays Ted) did an acoustic cover of Outkast's "Hey Ya" which I rather enjoyed.

Also, Jack Johnson's cover of The White Stripes' "We're Gonna Be Friends" on the Curious George soundtrack was delightful. I really enjoyed that movie.

 

[brabz]

Nirvana: Man Who Sold the World (David Bowie)
Goldfinger: Just Like Heaven (The Cure)
Perfect Circle: Imagine (John Lennon)

Can't say they're necessarily better than the orginals, but I really like the different interpretations of these in particular.


WORST COVER EVER: Under Pressure by My Chemical Romance and Used
- You can't touch Bowie and Freddie Mercury and this cover is ungodly bad sounding to me.

 

[killgannon]

A day to remember - Since you've been gone
At the Drive-in - This night has opened my eyes
Atreyu - You give love a bad name
Coheed and Cambria - Sister Christian
Gary Jules - Mad world
Limp Bizkit - Faith (they suck in general but this was awesome)
Placebo - Bigmouth strikes again
The Fugees - Killing me softly
Nirvana - Man who sold the world
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Johnny Cash - I'm so lonesome I could cry
Al Greene - How can you mend a broken heart
Muse - Feeling good
anything by Richard Cheese

That's about all I can think of at the moment

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Nine Inch Nails' cover of Joy Division's Dead Souls.

 

[timmytom1]

Machine heads cover of iron maiden`s hollwed be thy name

 

[Grab-bag]

I don't really like them but my chemical romance did 'Desolation Row' By bob Dylan and it was better than the original by far!

 

[messy]

Hungry like the wolf and take on me covered by reel big fish is pretty good
Golddigger covered by the automatic
Girlfriend covered by pidgeon detectives and
Love machine covered by artic monkeys (i love radio one live lounge)

 

[AlvinFlummox]

I enjoy pretty much anything by Me First And The Gimme Gimmmes; I think it helps that they're not trying to sound like the original songs in most cases.
I would also have to agree with anyone who said All Along The Watchtower by Hendrix, Easy and Warpigs by Faith No More, Land Of Confusion and Shout 2000 by Disturbed, and Feeling Good by Muse.
I also enjoy NOFX's version of Go Your Own Way (originally by Fleetwood Mac, I believe) and Goldfinger's version of 99 Red Balloons.
Can't think of any more at the minute...

 

[US Crash Fire]

Metallica's cover of Whiskey in the Jar!

 

[ConstantJoe]

London Bridge - Bowling for Soup (original by Fergie)

Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm (original by MJ)

Feelin' Good - Muse

Wolves of the Sea - Alestorm (Awesome cover of a piece of eurovision crap)

and of course Over The Hills And Far Away (original by Gary Moore, I think)
that song is awesome live. Especially in their End of an Era DVD. The studio version was meh in comparison.

 

[Run4Covar]

Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Voodoo Child" (originally by Jimi Hendrix)

Agreed, I have it as my ringtone. Definitely more badass than the original (after all, they picked it for the Black Hawk Down soundtrack for when all the helicopters were moving out).

 

[Not Good]

Death's cover of Painkiller (Judas Priest) is mindblowingly awesome. The Small Hours cover by Metallica is good though the original is admittly better. Megadeth's No More Mr. Nice Guy is supposed to be pretty good.