The best cover of a song is..............

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They wont go where I go - original Stevie Wonder, covered by George Michael. It's just perfect in every single way.

AIBU or do you think there is a better cover???

Mariah's Without You
Whitney's I Will Always Love You
Adele's Make You Feel My Love
Eva's Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Amy's Valerie

Hadn't realised Aretha's RESPECT and Marvin's Heard it Through the Grapevine are also covers until recently.

I love the Fugees Killing me Softly as well if that counts.

Not the BEST cover but I do like Travis doing Hit Me Baby, One More Time.

Everything But The Girl - I Don’t Want To Talk About It. Also perfection!

@25thCenturyQuakerOohand how about Bowie's cover of Let's Spend the Night Together, and Eric Clapton covering Cocaine?

Chris Cornell - Billie Jean

William Shatner doing Common People

Great but batshit!

Whiskey in the jar by Metallica (the original ny thin lizzy is fantastic too)

Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah is technically a cover of a cover. It's based on John Cale's interpretation, which has a different composition and lyrics to Leonard Cohen's original.

Probably already mentioned, but Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails is heartbreaking.

Love is all around - Wet Wet Wet

My favourite covers are by Playing For Change (not buskers!) This is one of my favourites. When the Levee Breaks and Biko are pretty awesome too

Respectfully disagree with you about Without You by Harry Nilsson c.f. Maria Carey. To me, the original version is so full of authentic pain it just hits you in the stomach but Maria's version just feels like she's showing off her vocal gymnastics and lacks honesty ( ie it's just a song to her, she's not really feeling it )
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Came on to say the guns n roses live n let die!! It's awesome.

Also agree with muse version you mentioned@needhelpwiththisplease it's heaven.

Lots of good ones on here, I’d like to throw in Dear Pudence - siouxsie and the banshees, must better than the Beatles

Live and Let Die, Guns and Roses, as good as the original and possibly better depending on my mood.

I was going to say this too, I am not keen on Disturbeds own stuff but Sound of silence is amazing .

I also prefer Cohen’s Hallelujah, but the Handsome Family singing Famous Blue Raincoat (especially the Live version is phenomenal).

I would love to hear a dark dark version of Who’s afraid of little Ol me.

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disturbed the sound of silence lyrics https://g.co/kgs/6pJWiad

Oh I will have to check it out. That's one of my favourites Cohen songs.

Kelly Jones First time ever I saw your face is great but I adore Amy Winehouse (with Paul Weller and Jools Holland) singing Don't go to strangers come to me.
Epic.

It's a mash up of a song previously released by another artist. It isn't an original song mashed up with a sample of another like Rihanna's Sos or Jamelia's Beware of the dog.

Harry Nilsson was a cover in the first place. Originally written by Badfinger although never released as a single appears on their 1970 album No Dice

Prelude's a capella version of Neil Young's "After the Goldrush"

Sheryl Crow does a great cover of The First Cut is the Deepest

That's brilliant! It really works with the song. They didn't actually have to do too much with it.