Billie Eilish’s cover of Bad turns a cheesy West-Side-Story-in-the-80’s gang flex into one sexy song. Michael’s version never made any sense to me.
[The White Stripes - Jolene (Official Music video) - YouTube]Jolene covered by The White Stripes](The White Stripes - Jolene (Official Music video) - YouTube) is just badass.
Gretchen Peters wrote and performed On a a Bus to St. Cloud, and it’s been covered by others including Trisha Yearwood, but Jimmy LaFave just simply owns it.
I remember this cover of “For Once in My Life” from that show. It’s a different feel than the original - not “better than,” but I really like this cover’s interpretation.
Susan Tedeschi, in her own right, and here with the Tedeschi Trucks Band performing a cover of John Prine’s Angel From Montgomery mixed with a little cover of the Grateful Dead’s Sugaree.
Johnny Cash and Hurt. Watching the video gets me every time.
The Jam doing a much more energized version of David Watts.
Elvis Presley sings Nirvana*: Come as you are
Last cover thread I remember, someone posted the remarkable and excellent Trust In Me (from Disney’s The Jungle Book) by Siouxsie and the Banshees. Worth reposting.
Here’s a near cover version, but remarkable and wonderful so I’m posting it anyway. U2’s Miss Sarajevo performed by Luciano Pavarotti, Brian Eno, Bono, The Edge and a sizeable orchestra.
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By Jim Brown. The first album, Gravelands, carried an explanation: Elvis, having died and gone to heaven, spends time with other dead musicians, absorbing their influences. He then returns to the land of the living, borrowing the body of Jim Brown, Belfast postman, for the purpose of recording an album of tributes to his new (dead) pals.
Finnish band, Steve 'n Seagulls cover of AC/DC Thunderstruck
Who knew Finland had rednecks!!!
I like their cover of How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees). They’re probably be categorized as indie pop.
Please allow me, to introduce The String Cheese Incident covering Sympathy for the Devil
And two covers of Tangled up in Blues… I think Dylan would approve.
Leftover Salmon doing Tangled Up in Blue
Jerry Garcia Band doing Tangled Up in Blue
Leftover Salmon covering Harry Belafonte’s
Boo Boo Song covered by LOS
Good Lovin’ by the Gilberto Sextet.
Aurora does lovely covers: Bowie’s Life on Mars
Massive Attack’s Teardrop
Meg Myers Running Up That Hill
I always feel it takes balls to do good covers where the greatest thing about the original is the singer - and both Liz Frazier and Kate Bush certainly qualify.
The incredible Nikki Hill covers AC/DC’s If You Want Blood
Woah. I always thought Johnny Cash took ownership of that song but I never saw the video before. That video removes all doubt.
Trent Reznor sort of agrees
Yeah, that could easily be both the title and the OP for this thread.
Trent who?
Bangles Cover Simon And Garfunkle’s Hazy Shade Of Winter I love this cover, it’s from the movie Less Than Zero, 1987.
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OK I’m just going to say that PMJB is going to win this as a category… I’ve just been listening to their collection on YouTube for the past hour-plus and at least one song sounds like it should always have been a jazz standard, The Cardigans’ Lovefool:
[/QUOTE]Yeah, some days I just put PMJB’s YouTube channel on and love everything that comes on.
My absolute favorite of theirs is Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass”. They took a fun, if somewhat throwaway, pop song, and made it damn sexy. Visual appeal aside they managed to put together three different, yet complementary, vocalists who just crushed it.
Not to mention two guys playing the same upright bass at the same time in the middle of the song. 
Can’t swear it’s a great cover, but just this morning I heard Cake’s version of Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town, and it caused me to realize what a dark, dark song it really is. Never really paid attention to the lyrics too much before that. :eek:
Marie Digby ! Nice.
