Best Song Covers

[Not Good]

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.

I can one up you. Fall Out Boy covered Walk (Pantera). Yep.

 

[atv_chic_18]

Disturbed's Land of Confusion, Marilyn Manson's This is Halloween, and Sweet Dreams (are made of this), and my friends band covering Finch's What It Is To Burn to name a few.

 

[Jericho_Reivaj]

I would have to say...

Enjoy The Silence- It Dies Today (Depeche Mode cover)

Swing- Miss May I (Savage cover)

Still Fly- The Devil Wears Prada (Big Tymers Cover)

Bring The Pain-Mindless Self Indulgence(Method Man cover)

Zero- Evergreen Terrace (Smashing Pumpkins cover)

The Kids Aren't Alright- Evergreen Terrace (The Offspring cover)

and others but cant memmer right now...

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

http://www.myspace.com/famefortuneandfornication

This whole album. Especially Veronica Sawyer (originally Edna's Goldfish).

God Reel Big Fish are good.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

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

had already been mentioned and also mentioned why it sux

that long intro is there for a good reason and Trent totally missed the point of it and the song actually loses a lot of it's meaning and power without it.

now NiN have done some good covers like "Get Down Make Love", "Physical" and "Suck", tho he did sing the original version on the Pigface album

 

[Svizzara]

Just found a beautiful one. Sara Bareilles' cover of I'm On Fire, originally by Bruce Springsteen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhysu3peJek

 

[Two-Headed Boy]

Tori Amos's Smells like Teen Spirit

 

[zoozilla]

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies.

I prefer the version by brother IZ.

I also like Radiohead's cover of "Headmaster Ritual".

 

[G1eet]

Also,

Sea of Temptation - Misery Business (Paramore)

is fantastic for a laugh.

Sea of Treachery. But yes, probably one of the only covers to be better than the original.
Oh, and Surfin' USA- Blind Guardian.

 

[Naeo]

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt.

I fucking love you.

Also, "Stripped" (originally Depeche Mode) by Rammstein, "Crazy" (originally Seal) by Mushroomhead (I was surprised too), "One", "Rusty Cage", and pretty much any cover by Johnny Cash except "Personal Jesus".

Also anyone who says "Ein Lied" by Nena, "Another Brick in the Wall" by Korn, or "Behind Blue Eyes" by Limp Bizkit gets shot.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Pearl Jam - Last Kiss.

 

[balinus]

I liked Sheryl Crow's cover of Sweet Child of Mine. As well as The Goo Goo Dolls cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'I Don't Want To Know'

 

[Bibliomancer]

Iron & Wine's cover of such great heights
Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt
Jimi Hendrix's cover of All along the watchtower
Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah

 

[siwel_yllek]

Beat It - Raintime (Original by M.J.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rObSwvfQcjg

Metal covers of somewhat normal songs are my favourite

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Also,

Sea of Temptation - Misery Business (Paramore)

is fantastic for a laugh.

Sea of Treachery. But yes, probably one of the only covers to be better than the original.
Oh, and Surfin' USA- Blind Guardian.

Ah crap, so it is. Thanks for pointing that out.

And yeah, definitely better than the original, I think.

 

[MalevolentJim]

Moonsorrows cover of For Whom The Bell Tolls was pretty epic
and Green Day have a few good covers under their belts.

I also liked Dopes cover of You Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record)

 

[smokeybearsb]

Bit cliché, but Gary Jules cover of Mad World.

also, Disturbed's cover of Land of Confusion.

Perfect that's EXACTLY what I was going to say