Greatest ever cover

[KateR]

have the Disturbed CD and cover but for me Seether's cover of GM's - Careless Whisper is the best I have ever heard, although I also really like in 2nd place Guns & Roses live cover version of Knocking on Heavens Door. My kind of music Seether the best have heard since Led Zeppelin

everyone covers Dylan songs and no one comes close for me, he is so unique in writing and singing style, truly someone who had a great influence on music generally, having said that I just mentioned G&R's above

[Steve1956]

Hadn`t heard that till last week when it was on an episode of The Blacklist, I had to look it up and listen on YouTube to see who they were. Great cover.

His own stuff is crap

[Leisure]

Four Dylan covers.
Adele 'Make You Feel My Love.'
The Byrds 'Mr Tambourine Man.'
The Animals 'House of The Rising Sun.' (Dylan had actually covered and reinterpreted this himself as it was an old American folk/blues song}
Jerry Garcia 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door.'

Plus Jimmy Hendrix - All along the watchtower.

[Reb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_BcivBprM0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Patti Smith - Springsteen's Because the night

[basil6345789]

Otis's cover of Temps' My Girl.

[Firthy]

Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers

The ultimate cover

[!aiboforceN]

One of my faves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_BqF5f0oY0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Black Celebration

[Leamington Claret]

"Song for the Siren", This Mortal Coil.

[northernpowerhouse]

Pixies - Winterlong (Neil Young): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWWjMgzhbu4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Toots & the Maytals - Take Me Home Country Roads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQFKMar4x-w" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And most stuff on Nirvana's MTV unplugged album.

[expoultryboy]

Guns and roses - live and let die ain't bad

[todclaret]

Screaming Females

Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" - there used to be a video of this performance but it seems to have been deleted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qOdtoE5OCI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sheryl Crow's "If It makes You Happy" - video for this has disappeared, too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocRyF7ft0ok" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


And this stonking version of "Because The Night"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOmKGjy-Ct0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Longsidebovril]

Me first and the gimme gimmes

American punk supergroup love child of Nofx and lagwaggon play hits of the ages

Google them and enjoy!

[claretdavid]

https://youtu.be/Sr3XHHMtrHw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Joe Cocker With a Little Help From My Friends

[Imploding Turtle]

Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallahluja always seems to get mentioned in greatest cover song discussions, so i feel like i should continue that tradition.

OPs right though, Disturbed's cover of Sound of Silence is brilliant.

I'd like to offer Valerie by Amy Winehouse. So good that some people probably don't know it's a cover.

Edit: I'm not sure this is better than the original, but this Bad Wolves cover of Zombie is pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Imploding Turtle]

Also this version of What's up by 4 Non Blondes is worthy of any "greatest covers" discussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5LpwO-An4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Falcon]

Great thread this

[houseboy]

Music especially though. I have my tastes and keep them to myself. My only dislike is Rap music since around the late 90s to date. Negative influence on young society.

I think it might be called conversation, at least it may come under that category. Now if you really didn't like pushing your opinions you wouldn't be a member of a chat forum, now THAT comes under the heading of hypocritical.

Incidentally not a major fan of covers but one of my all times is Kirsty McColl's cover of Days by The Kinks. Nearly (but not quite) as good as the original.

[TurfyMoore]

The Boys of Summer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt6Lkgs0kiU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;