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    Don't know if I like it more than the original, but it's still a pretty damn fine cover.



    More Bastille, they're bloody class.



    Aqualung cover that I think is miles better.


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    Can't find the YouTube link at work, but James Arthur's remake of Sexy And I Know It is like a completely new song. Needless to say, better than LMFAO.

    Hurt & Hallelujah have already been mentioned, which are the first thoughts.

    Don Henley's Boys of Summer is great, but I always liked the remakes by DJ Sammy and The Ataris.

    Mad World redone by Gary Jules is better than the original by Tears for Fears.

    Respect by Aretha Franklin is a cover, the original is by Stax (I think?). Aretha Franklin's trumps it.

    Tricky to say which is the best of an abundance of covers of I Fought The Law, but I'm personally partial to the Greenday cover.

    Hound Dog by Elvis is a cover. Big Mama Thornton sang the original.

    I really like Guns N' Roses' cover of Wings' Live and Let Die.

    I'll possibly get a bit of flack for this, but I do really, really like Stevie Ray Vaughan's cover of Hendrix's Voodoo Child.
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    Here we have an alternative Rock band covering Blondie using a Black Sabbath intro.

    Franz Ferdinand - Call me (Blondie cover) - YouTube

    The awesome is overflowing.

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    The Johnny Cash cover of Nine Inch Nail's Hurt is amazingly epic:



    I love NiN but Johnny Cash smashes this song so well that you won't believe.

    Metallica covering Flogging Molly's Whiskey In The Jar:



    Flogging Molly's original is still an ace song but smurf me if this song wasn't almost written for a Metallica cover from the outset.

    30 Seconds to Mars did a couple of stints on BBC Radio One's Live Lounge. Their first stint produced this:



    Kanye West covered a Daft Punk song which in turn got covered by 30STM and they frankly changed the tone and made the song a lot darker than anything by either of the predecessor artists.

    Their second stint on the Live Lounge produced a Lady Gaga cover much in a similar style to the Stronger cover they brought it down and made it darker I'll just post the video and you guys can decide if it's better or worse:



    Though anyone who doubted Jared's singing ability was kinda proven wrong by the two videos above.

    Justin Timberlake's cover of Cry Me A River got the Rock Scene cover treatment too, this time by Welsh Metal band Lost Prophets (and criminal investigations against lead singer Ian Watkins aside afterall they've not found him guilty of the crimes yet) they've had a fair few awesome moments in music with some of the catchiest nu-metal songs released ever. Their cover of Cry Me A River is simply amazing, just hang in there for the guitar solo:



    Finally for this post since I'm running out of time and the post is getting long. Rise Against covered a song by the band Jawbreaker as an accoustic. The Tour Song is a great one for smiling as you sing along:


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    Steve: Just a heads up, Whiskey in the Jar is actually a folk song in Ireland, made famous first by the Dubliners. Flogging Molly just do it really bloody well... haven't heard the Metallica version, mind you, will have to check that out sometime. I'm assuming the Daft Punk song you're referring to is Stronger (Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger). Love the Kanye West version of that, haven't heard the 30STM version though.
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    Metallica are covering Thin Lizzy's version of Whiskey in the Jar, anyway, not Flogging Molly's.



    Also Little Wing is the superior Hendrix cover by SRV. He actually made it sound like a complete song, and it has some of his best guitar playing in it.



    Dead Kennedys' version of I Fought the Law is definitely the best.

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    Blur totally reworked Song 2, it's quite interesting, and I like it (duh).



    And here's their cover of Oliver's Army.


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    Best Stairway to Heaven cover



    I especially like the guitar solo being played on the horn section
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    Awesome cover of Ruby Tuesday. Discovered it just the other day even though it's been around forever.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Skyblade View Post
    Van Canto's cover of anything.

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