Jeff Healey’s whole ‘Cover to Cover’ album (CD)!!!
VERY good shit. 'Specially the Beatle’s stuff. No I take back - it’s the blues stuff.
Money = Barrett Strong
Twist and Shout = The Top Notes (though it was the Isley Brothers’ version that was a hit and that the Beatles probably knew first)
Forgot about this one – Jackie DeShannon did the original version (much as love the Searchers, gotta give credit where it’s due).
The original version of “Tainted Love” was recorded by Gloria Jones – it was a late sixties R&B dance number.
I’ll see if I can come up with some that I haven’t nominated the last couple of times this topic’s come around:
“Til the End of the Day”, Big Star (original by The Kinks)
“Brand New Cadillac”, The Clash (Vince Taylor & His Playboys)
“Mood Indigo”, The Jody Grind (come on, do I have to do this one?)
“Bertha Lou”, Tav Falco and Panther Burns (Clint Miller)
“Glad All Over”, The Rezillos (Dave Clark Five)
“Red Cadillac and a Black Mustache”, Robert Gordon and Link Wray (Warren Smith)
“In My Own Time”, The Three O’Clock (The Bee Gees)
And a few I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned before:
“B-A-B-Y”, Rachel Sweet (Carla Thomas)
“(What’s So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding”, Elvis Costello (Brinsley Schwarz)
And my all-time favorite cover:
“You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby”, Kirsty MacColl (The Smiths)
From Argentina. Check out “Matador” which they did in 1994. Vaya marcha.
Didn’t see anyone mention my favorite.
Take Me to the River by Talking Heads (orginally done by Al Green as a R&B). Too cool.
Dave
Yeah, I like SRV’s “Little Wing” much better than the original, but (and I can’t say exactly why, maybe just because it’s SRV) I still prefer his version of “Voodoo Chile” to Hendrix’s.
Also, I disagree with whoever disagreed with Creedence Clearwater Revival’s cover of “Heard it through the grapevine”. I like it better.
And I can’t believe I forgot to mention Dweezil Zappa doing “Hit me baby one more time” (formerly Britney Spears). I LOVE it.
And Type O Negative doing “Summer Breeze”. 
String Cheese Incident’s versions of “Take Five” and “Footsteps”
[hijack]SteveinSpain…WOW! Finally someone knows the band I was talking about. Of course I know their song Matador. They were going to be on concert here last week, but the baterist got a fractured leg and it was canceled. GRRR…[/hijack]
I like:
Moxy Fruvous (Great Canadian Band): The BeeGees’ “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You”
Barenaked Ladies: “Fight the Power”, “Material Girl”, and “When Doves Cry”
They Might Be Giants: “Mr. Tambourine Man”
Garth Brooks: Kiss’ “Hard Luck Woman”
and not really a cover, technically, but System of a Down do something great with the theme to “Legend of Zelda” that you all have to hear.
Kneekettle
if the best cover isn’t johnny winters “highway 61”, then it has to be big daddy’s " sgt peppers lonely hearts club band"
Most of the Specials tunes were covers, but their two most amazing were:
Molly’s Farm (ska version of Dylan);
Guns of Navarrone (sped-up cover of Skatellite’s cover of old movie tune).
Tom Waits’ version of “Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho” from the Disney “Stay Awake” album of covers.
Goes from a happy Dwarf song to a creepy dirge. I love it.
Oh right. That kinda passed me by, in the late 60’s I wasn’t even a sperm swimming around in my father’s nads at that stage … that, and the Soft Cell version is the one that EVERYBODY knows.
I stand corrected.
Oh yeah … forgot a really unbelivably cool one …
Faith No More’s cover of the theme to ‘Midnight Cowboy’.
There, I said it.
Good lord, someone else here knows about Big Daddy?
You ain’t lyin’! It’s great because they made up lyrics to it, and Serj sang it. Serj singing anything is just automatically great.
I nominate Annie Lennox’s version of “No More I Love Yous” off her Medusa CD. I don’t remember who sang it originally, but hers is super good.
I might be wrong, but I seem to recall hearing that although, of course, Bob Dylan wrote Mr Tambourine Man the Byrds recorded it, or released it before Dylan. If that is the case (The Byrds released it first) would that make Dylan’s release the cover?
Oh, and I generally prefer anyone’s cover of any Woody Guthrie song. The Library of Congress recordings just aren’t that good.
“I Will Survive,” originally recorded by Gloria Gaynor. Off of Fashion Nugget. A great record of a great song.