I like the Lightning Seed's "You Showed Me". It stayed true to the original, but modernized it. I'd say its perfect.

Divine Fire- show must go on
Wounded- smells like teen spirit

Rod Stewart - Downtown Train - YouTube

Yeah, musical purists will have a problem with that. But if it were an original, I think most people would agree it's good.

sober originally by tool



California dreamin Originally by mama and papas


All along the watchtower originally by bob dylan
byibA7s-REo

That Staind cover is new to me and good, but like the Aaron Lewis cover of "Black," I can't call it "pop.

sorry ..didn't realize i was in the pop forum at the time

Free Fallin
 

I agree with some of the others.
I LOVE John Mayer's version of "Free Fallin'"

I like Joan Jett's cover of Sonny Curtis' "Love Is All Around"--which
was also covered by Sammy Davis Jr.! The original version was
used as the theme song for the old "Mary Tyler Moore Show":


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No Quarter - Tool

Tough call, but for me I'd have to go for 'Step On' by The Happy Mondays.

Just because it is such a marker of the Mondays' success and the vibe of that time, yet it's a cover and not much of a development on the original.

It's almost as if John Congos made the track and put it in a time capsule to be used at the right moment late.