Favorite song that has been covered well

[Samoftherocks]

Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The original, a folk tune about a lost ship. One of my favorite songs.


And the cover, by Jag Panzer. Fucking. EPIC.

Headbanging to Gordon Lightfoot...

Wow...you win. I bow to you. Easily the most interesting and absolutely EPIC cover ever created. Bless you, sir. Bless you...

May you exist in a state of perpetual high-fiving.

 

[JustShyofGenius]

Man, Korn's cover of Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2 is fucking awful. Can't stand it.

 

[Samoftherocks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX3sI0q5iMI&feature=PlayList&p=9C01C9639E9A41E9&index=8&playnext=4&playnext_from=PL

And just because this is one of greatest songs ever put together targeted at ridiculous dorks like us...yeah US.

Man, Korn's cover of Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2 is fucking awful. Can't stand it.

I could not agree more. The Soulfly cover of Beautiful People was pretty good though..

 

[LiquidGrape]

I think Siouxsie just nails whatever she covers. I'll second this and raise you a Dear Prudence:

Good hand, friend.
I call your Prudence and bet you Trust in Me.

 

[TankCopter]

I like Something For Kate's cover of Rock The Casbah, it retains a bit of the original while adding something different.

 

[JoJo Bizzaro 7]

Holy Diver.
The original by Dio is a classic, but the cover by Killswitch Engage did an excellent job in modernizing the song.

 

[crotalidian]

Whiskey in the Jar - Metallica (cover of Thin Lizzy)
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley or Rufus Wainwright (NOT ALEXANDRA BURKE)(Cover of Leonard Cohen)
Anything from the Rancid/NoFX Split (Covering each others songs)
You say it best - Meatloaf (cover of Ronan Keatings Notting Hill theme)
The Entire Hayseed Dixie Discography - Hillbilly bluegrass covers of Heavy metal songs

but the greatest single cover of all time has to be:

Hurt - Johnny 'the man in black' Cash (NiN cover)

Walk the Line Bitches!

EDIT: and just to keep it in Gaming. The Black Mages covering Final Fantsy Music (whatever you say about the series the music is great and Black mages put a nice take on some of it).

 

[Doinstuffman38]

Come Out and Play - The Offspring - Richard Cheese

I agree. Damn good cover.

One of my personal favorites is Brad Paisley's version of ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man". Normally I don't listen to Paisley (or ZZ Top for that matter), but it's an extremely well done cover.

Another favorite of mine is Green Day's cover of "I Fought The Law", which was more based off of the Clash's version rather than the Crickets. It's one of the B-Sides for American Idiot.

But, my all time favorite is Bowling For Soup's version of Matthew Sweet's "Sick of Myself".