Best cover version of a song.............

[RunningJib]

My Favorite This

Most likely, everyone has heard Julie Andrew's version from Sound of Music

Here's Brad Mehldau's version, "My Favorite Things"

There's so much more than warm woolen mittens

 

[AbsintheFather]

Grateful Dead Version

Ripple ~ Jane's Addiction
Bertha ~ Los Lobos
Wharf Rat ~ Midnight Oil
Ship of Fools ~ Elvis Costello

 

[Farawyn]

I dislike the Disturbed version so much ... it's really to try-hard in the 'we're really a very serious band making very serious music' way.

Me too.
Let’s wear black and sing it sllllloooowwwe.
Puhleeze.

 

[RunningJib]

Hey Joe

I was introduce to "Hey Joe" by way of Jimi Hendrix

Jimi's version is about vengeance, however, Jijay Iyer's version is about domestic violence

 

[AbsintheFather]

Judy Garland ~ Somewhere over the Rainbow ~ Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole

Thank God for copy and paste

 

[HBergeron]

The Move's California Man - remade by Cheap Trick
(kinda hate to say it - the Move was just an incredible band,
but that song always needed to rock harder)

 

[KimGordon67]

Me too.
Let’s wear black and sing it sllllloooowwwe.
Puhleeze.

slow and *earnest*

 

[Pantyboy74]

Judy Garland ~ Somewhere over the Rainbow ~ Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole

Thank God for copy and paste

I second this

The prodigy - firestarter - De Staat

 

[Delightfuldeviant90]

Cowboy Junkies version of Lou Reed's- Sweet Jane.

 

[jmarx20102012]

The Bangles version of Big Star’s September Gurls

I loved you, well, never mind
I've been crying all the time

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zXNtwS9wZjs

 

[hotoldrguy]

She's Not There - Vanilla Fudge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPsX1g0z62Q

 

[suelove58]

Adele - Rolling In The Deep - cover by Linkin Park, 2011 iTunes Festival

 

[RunningJib]

Ditto that

Cowboy Junkies version of Lou Reed's- Sweet Jane.

I agree. Margo's voice adds a sultry sexiness that adds layers to the original version

 

[_valkyrie_]

Eye In The Sky (Alan Parsons Project), cover by Jonatha Brooke.

 

[John_Q_Public]

Bob Dylan- All Along the Watchtower- Jimmy Hendrix
Jimmy Hendrix- Voodoo Child- Stevie Ray Vaughan

 

[Taegul]

My 2 favorites -

John Lennon - Imagine - A Perfect Circle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dunKAwRN3P8

Pulp - Common People - William Shatner w/ Ben Folds and Joe Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0

 

[KimGordon67]

Cowboy Junkies version of Lou Reed's- Sweet Jane.

Good pick ... the laconic tone totally suits the song

 

[talkeasy5813]

Any cover by Pentatonix

 

[badjanus]

Cat Stevens - Wild World - Maxi Priest

 

[emsway]

Simon and Garfunkel ~ America ~ First Aid Kit

Glen Campbell ~ Wichita Lineman ~ Dwight Yoakam

 

[badjanus]

Chris Farlowe - Handbags and Gladrags - Stereophonics

 

[jaF0]

Animals - House of the Rising Sun - Frijid Pink

 

[badjanus]

Patti LaBelle-Lady Marmalade -Pink, Christina Aguilera , Lil Kim and Mya

 

[Sienna]

Patti LaBelle-Lady Marmalade -Pink, Christina Aguilera , Lil Kim and Mya

(1) Leornard Cohen – Hallelujah – Pentatonix

(2) David Bowie – Space Oddity – Lady Heroine

(3) Britney Spears – Toxic – Betti

(4) Frank Sinatra – Fly Me To The Moon – Diana Krall

(5) Spice Girls – Wannabe – Haschak Sisters

 

[LucyCanyon]

Steppenwolf - Born to be wild - Slade (live album... 1971...)