What's Your Favourite Cover Version?
 

With the recent cover version of "Run" by Leona Lewis knocking spots off the original by Snow Patrol, some others came to mind-

Depeche Mode- Personal Jesus- Marilyn Manson
Hall And Oates- I Can't Go For That/ Sunrise- Simply Red
Barry Ryan- Eloise- The Damned
Cameo- Word Up- Korn
Dobie Gray- The In Crowd- Bryan Ferry

So What's Your Favourite?

One that's standing out ATM is Sonic Youth's cover of the Carpenter's song, Superstar.

Patti Smith's cover of Gloria is the only cover I've ever loved.

Its hard to choose cause they're so many cool covers I've come across..

Chilren of Bodom doing Somebody Put Something In My Drink (Ramones)

and

Pennywise covering Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)

...are a couple that I've heard and really liked lately.

Trickys version of Public Enemy's Black Steel is still the standard that other cover versions should aspire too. If you are going to cover a song then put your own spin on it and thats exactly what he did.

I'd like to throw out Nirvana covering "The Man who Sold The World", even though it's a cliche.

Here's five that spring to mind;

The Fall - I'm Going To Spain
Elvis Costello - I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
The Pogues - The Recruiting Sergeant/Rocky Road To Dublin/Galway Races
Rolling Stones - Stop Breaking Down
Captain Beefheart - Diddy Wah Diddy

No one has mentioned Between the Buried and Me's cover album. The entire album is pretty good, but there are a few mentionable songs from The Anatomy of:. They do a little bit of everything. My favorites are between their versions of Queen's "Bicycle Race" and Pink Floyd's "Us and Them".

I didn't mention BTBAM because they are awful :D

We'll, once again, you leave me to resort to this lame one-liner:

We're all entitled to our own opinions.

PS