Great cover versions

ddraver

This.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwhvFLHIlBs

(If you play the guitar and think you need better kit to sound good, it will break your heart )

webboo

Have we had Walk on by The Stranglers

Cargobike

What?
Nobody thought of the Circle Jerks cover of Garland Jeffreys "Wild in the Streets"?
Unbelievable!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eUj-ByRJKug

Cargobike

Doubtful that any are a better version of the originals, but Metallica have a penchant for cover versions too.
Personal favourites for me are The Wait originally by Killing Joke and Crash Course in Brain Surgery by Budgie.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWWkpGraug

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xZcZ2ndsYI4

veronese68

webboo said:

Have we had Walk on by The Stranglers

Probably, but I also really like the original. They are both great, but different.

Have we had Summer Breeze by the Isley Brothers, listen to the original by Seals and Crofts to appreciate how good the Isley Brothers one is.

webboo

Police and Thieves The Clash

Harry182

Radiohead - Ceremony (Joy Division cover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cedNya7e8Uc

fatted864

Kings Of Leon cover Robyn's Dancing On My Own
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ-vU28uPb0

Metallica - Brothers in Arms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfPxU88Qqkg
I don't think it is an improvement

Patti Smith - Twelve

shortfall

Just discovered that Girls just Wanna Have Fun by Cindi Lauper is a cover WTF? The original is but this guy and it sounds very The Cars esque.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5aLNwOxPsjg

First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack is also a great cover of a Ewan MacColl song performed by his wife Peggy Seeger.

johngti

Lemon heads - Mrs Robinson
Frank Turner - dancing queen
Stevie Ray Vaughan - superstition