Best cover versions

[Ullman]

Not a cover version (as far as I know) but just wait 'til you experience Leonard Nimoy singing 'The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins'. YouTube is your friend....

Ye gods!!

[westlondonfan]

One of my favourite cover versions is Walk On By by the Stranglers.

Edited August 17, 2014 by westlondonfan

[Larry the Leit]

I'll get slated for this but Pet Shop Boys - Always on my Mind.

 

I'm not so sure.  

[The Crab]

Madness, It must be love

http://youtu.be/ocioqeenLuE

Madness - Swan Lake  

[Martyn Sadler]

Check out this version of California Dreamin' by the first lady of British jazz, Clare Teal.

 

[WearyRhino]

Check out this version of California Dreamin' by the first lady of British jazz, Clare Teal.

 

 

Clare is an excellent Jazz singer, and a Yorkshire lass to boot, but does far too much Dinner Jazz, bordering on Musak, for my liking. This cover of California Dreamin' is a good measure of the original interpretations she could do if she stopped trying to be Ella Fitzgerald.

[Leeds Wire]

Better late than never....

 

[C H Calthrop]

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

[my missus]

the disturbed, the sound of silence, a brilliant version stick with it to the end it just gets better

Edited May 25, 2016 by my missus

[longboard]

Should I stay or should I go?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW8mF2be0I0

[Trailfinder]

One of my favourites of all time from DEVO

 

And an absolute classic from The Slits

 

Oh...and this From the Flying Lizards

 

All of them are on this Album which is pretty much spot on....https://www.discogs.com/Various-We-Do-Em-Our-Way/release/1118715

[John Rhino]

the disturbed, the sound of silence, a brilliant version stick with it to the end it just gets better

https://youtu.be/u9Dg-g7t2l4

Yes,THIS!

[C H Calthrop]

[C H Calthrop]

[C H Calthrop]

[JohnM]

Starbird, Manfred Mann Earth Band. Cover of part of Stravinski's Firebird ballet suite.

[Old Frightful]

One of my favourite cover versions is Walk On By by the Stranglers.

 

I used to set a music quiz in my local a few years back. One night I told the gathered participants that I was going to play two versions of the same song and wanted to know who the artists were. I hinted that they might find it difficult as both versions were very similar. I then played about a minute of Dionne Warwick's version followed by about a minute of the Stranglers' cover.

[Trojan]

I was listening to Melanie's version of Ruby Tuesday last night, better than the original IMO.  Also the Beatles version of "Words of Love" is IMO superior to the Buddy Holly original.  Worst cover version I've ever heard is the Carpenters' version of Please Mr Postman.  Sung pat, and totally without the passion both the Beatles and the Marvelettes put into it.

[Bearman]

the disturbed, the sound of silence, a brilliant version stick with it to the end it just gets better

https://youtu.be/u9Dg-g7t2l4

That is brilliant.

[Ullman]

[Farmduck]

A couple of 60s OZ bands

 

 

and Zoot, with Rick Springfield on guitar before he moved to the US and became a soap actor

 

[Ullman]

The Mingers cover of Hawkwind's Death Trap

 

[Leeds Wire]

 

[Tongs ya bas]

great song. love how it builds, and great use of vibrato.

 

Edited December 5, 2017 by Tongs ya bas

[shaun mc]

Patti Griffins cover of Springsteens Stolen Car is a brilliant cover, more haunting and better than the original.