Best cover version of a song ever

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Can't decide my favourite, either Disturbed's 'Sound of Silence' or Chrissie Hynde's 'Creep' both much better than original! What are yours?

My friend sent me a link to Hue and Cry doing a cover of The man with the child in his eyes.........I cried me eyes out. Just wonderful.

Valerie by Amy Winehouse better than Zutons who wrote it

Three of them already mentioned, Disturbed - Sound of Silence, Johnny Cash - Hurt and Susan Boyle - Wild Horses.

I love Wicked Game by Chris Isaak's but this version I thought was fantastic!

Everything I was going to say has already been mentioned.

However I agree with above posters, YouTube Axis of Awesome - 4 chord song.

You've got the love by Florence and the Machine. Far superior to the original

Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams

Paloma Faith - Never Tear Us Apart

I bet I can think of loads

Guns n Roses - Knockin on Heaven's Door

Ones where the cover is better than the original:

Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles
They Don't Know - Kirsty Maccoll
Dear Prudence - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Denis - Blondie

There is an excellent BBC4 documentary about covers!

Dream Academy’s cover of the Smiths’ Please Please Please Let Me

Leona Lewis - Run

Queen Adreena's version of Jolene.

I Started A Joke-Faith No More. In fact, most FNM covers.
Astronomy Domine-Voivod.
Take This Job And Shove It-Dead Kennedys.
Isobel-Carcass (technically a remix)
Cleaning Out My Closet-Jacknife Lee. (another remix)

All, IMO, better than the originals. Especially the last one.

DoctorTeo agree about FTM. Their version of Easy is amazing.

Fiona Apple's cover of Elvis Costello's 'I Want You'
Melissa Etheridge's cover of Janis Joplin's 'Piece of My Heart'
The Killer's cover of Dire Strait's 'Romeo and Juliet'
Muse's cover of Nina Simone's 'Feeling Good'
Guns 'N Roses' cover of The Rolling Stones 'Sympathy For The Devil'
Allison Crowe's cover of Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time'
Lea Michele's cover of Barbra Streisand's 'My Man'
Tyler Hilton's cover of John Waite's 'Missing You'
Lily Allen's cover of Keane's 'Everybody's Changing'

Ok that's quite enough!!

This Guy's In Love With You-FNM
Easy-FNM
Seven Nation Army-Living Colour (strictly speaking it's Doug Wimbish and Will Calhoun)
Torn-Natalie Imbruglia.
(Let's Get) Physical-Revolting Cocks.
Heartbeats-The Knife.

Original hurt much better
Agree with easy by fnm
Disturbed land of confusion, brillant
The bangles can't remember its name

Hazy shade of winter :) so upbeat and catchy

Disturbed's Sound of Silence,
Chris Hadfield's Space Oddity

Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin is apparently a cover. Frigging love that song.

Yes to all GNR covers...
No to Florence and the Machine! she isn't a patch on Candi Stanton!

Bad Wolves just did a cover of Zombie after Dolores O'Riordan died. It's fantastic.

Anything Placebo covers. Brian has a gorgeous voice

Year & Years - Please don't save me

Johnny cash - Hurt

Loads of great ones mentioned and I'll be checking out a few of these!

I might add that Bad Wolves cover isn't better than the original but brilliant in its own right!

I love 30 seconds to Mars version of Kanye West's 'Stronger'. So sexy.

Yy to Futureheads Hounds of Love

@DoctorTwo I must correct you: The Knife wrote the original version of Heartbeats. Jose González's gorgeous version is the cover.

That 30 Seconds to Mars cover of'Stronger' is the only song 'by' Jared and co I can listen to. It is gorgeous. Other than that cover I can't stand that band.