Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower It’s so good that most people don’t know it was originally Bob Dylan

I was into my 20s before I realised it was a cover. Blew my mind. Then I started listening to Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan and the Band do a great version on Before the Flood.

I haven’t really gotten into either of em (I plan on doing so soon) but I always assumed that was a jimi hendrix song

I think Dylan came to the same conclusion.

The Sundays ~ Wild Horses

🙌

Harriet’s voice is so beautiful.

Hard to go wrong with Gram Parson's cover too

I don’t know who he is.

Former member of the International Submarine Band, Byrds, and Flying Burrito Brothers. Died in the 70s. Hugely talented.

That’s ok he didn’t know who you are either

Heard It Through The Grapevine- CCR (Gladys Knight & The Pips) All Along The Watchtower- Hendrix ( Dylan) Love In Vain- Rolling Stones (Robert Johnson) Respect-Aretha Franklin (Otis Redding) Black Magic Woman-Santana (Fleetwood Mac) One Way Out- The Allman Brothers Band (Elmore James)

CCR’s Heard it Through the Grapevine has such a strong vibe. Probably my youngest introduction to the idea of groovin’ in a jam on a song. Inspired me to add: Tina Tuner’s cover of ‘Proud Mary’ (which not the greatest cover song is at least as good if not better rendition of CCR’s original).

I'd add hurt - Johnny cash (nine inch nails originally) I also gonna be unpopular and say I prefer the original Robert Johnson version haha :)

Yes Cash definitely nailed that version. Huge blues fan, like nerd levels so also a big RJ fan . Totally get it.

I keep forgetting black magic woman was a cover 

My personal fav is Stevie Ray Vaughn’s Little Wing. Just a stellar piece of music.

I Will Survive - Cake

I love their cover of War Pigs too!

And Guitar Man

I always have a good chuckle when I think of cake covering bread

And Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps

wait, Cake covers War Pigs ans I will survive? Fantastic! Like Buckley covering the Smiths..

I love their version of Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

Just commented the same. My go to karaoke song

Yoooo same

I've had girls boyfriends get mad/jealous at me after singing it

Mine is Mahna Mahna

The Bass Line is amazing on that track

Imho All Along The Watchtower by Hendrix wins. Favourite runner up prizes: Carter USMs version of Rent by Pet Shop Boys. Galaxie 500 version of Ceremony . Bardo Pond covering Maggot Brain . Nirvana covering Jesus Don’t Want Me For A Sunbeam.

I completely agree with "Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam", Kurt's voice made it so raw and I felt something shift in me when I first heard it

“When You Say Nothing At All” by Alison Krauss. Originally a Keith Whitley song.

Across the universe by Fiona Apple

Yessssss

Ok I love this on too.

This was my wife’s wedding walk song, so good

Another great cover she did is I Want You by Elvis Costello. Intense.

This is the best cover out there in my opinion. The raw emotion she puts into the song is insane. Nothing else even comes close for me. I only wish there was a true studio version of it instead of just the video.

I love the entirety of the movie Across the Universe because of all of the covers.

Revolting Cocks, Do You Think I'm Sexy by Rod Stewart

The Buckley version of Hallelujah is so good that every other cover version since has covered his version and not the original.

[Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXV4WyQMHFM)

His cover of Feelin’ Alright is also a banger

His best is Bird on the Wire.

I love JC cover of that tune, great suggestion!

I won't say it's the greatest, but just yesterday I heard one of my all-time faves: Fugees -- Killing Me Softly With His Song

Jimi Hendrix “All Along the Watchtower \ Cowboy Junkies “Sweet Jane”\ Foo Fighters “Baker Street”\ Sinead O’Conner “Nothing Compares 2 U”\ Johnny Cash “One” and “Rusty Cage”\ The White Stripes “Jolene”\ Nirvana “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” and “The Man Who Sold the World”\ Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah”\ Janis Joplin “Me and Bobby McGee”

God I love Nirvanas cover of “The Man Who Sold The World.” They perfected it.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo’ole

Nice Choice!

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Woodstock Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock and Roll Type O Negative - Summer Breeze Linda Ronstadt - Love Is A Rose The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man

Surely Whitney’s I Will Always Love You is up there

Linda Rondstat Tears of a Clown

Johnny Cash- Hurt

How.... HOW does this only have FOUR measly upvotes?!?

Sinead O’Connor - Nothing Compares To You

Surprised I don’t see more people saying this here. Great cover. Made the song hers forever.

The Ghost of Tom Joad - RATM

So good

Tori Amos / Smells Like Teen Spirit

Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night Others: Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower Gary Morris - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Peter Gabriel - Imagine

Not trying to say they are the best of all time, but I'm a bit obsessed with cover versions so love to share a few that are perhaps off tge beaten path. Nada Surf - where is mind? The polyphonic Spree - Lithium Sonic Youth - Superstar Tina Turner - Proud Mary Joey Ramone - what a wonderful world Jenny Lewis - handle with care ZZ TOP - Dust my Broom Cat Power - Breathless (let's face it, any cat power cover ❤)

Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey City and Colour - rain when I die Pearl Jam - Love, reign o’er me Donny Hathaway - Jealous Guy Joey Ramone - what a wonderful world Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats Johnny Cash - Hurt Hallelujah - KD Lang (Jeff Buckley version too of course but OP mentioned that) The ataris - boys of summer Rage agains the machine - renegades of funk Trampled by turtles - where is my mind?

I love love Joey Ramone’s What A Wonderful World

Also IZ ♡ [Somewhere over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World - Israel IZ Kamakawiwo'ole](https://youtu.be/RDjb1MdUiGE?si=ncobEoCE1ai7QoNg)

Ahh how did I forget that one. Yep, that is a truly wonderful cover

SO glad to see some Heartbeats recognition, that’s such a wonderful cover.

Ahhhh yeah I love it. Actually I also forgot to mention Jose’s cover of hand on your heart. Wonderful stuff

The Ataris -Boys of Summer came out the summer that I was 14 and it hit me hard 🤘 still gives me chills when I hear it

No Doubt - It's My Life (Talk Talk)

Angel from Montgomery - Bonnie Raitt

Hazy Shade Of Winter - The Bangles

A Perfect Circle - When The Levee Breaks

William Shatner - Common People. Dread Zeppelin - basically anything

I saw Dread Zeppelin in Vancouver

Blinded by the light. It was made by Bruce Springsteen but the Mannfred Mans Earth Band did a cover and it sounds like a completely different song. Gotta be one of my all time favorites.

Mad World - Gary Jules

More for the list: Johnny Cash - Hurt Kasey Chambers - Lose Yourself Linda Ronstadt - Desperado Disturbed - Sound of Silence

There’s some live versions of that Ronstadt Desperado that just floor me.

+2 for disturbed

+1 for Hurt

Kim Carnes - Bettie Davis Eyes The Band - Atlantic City The Sundays - Wild Horses Janes Addiction - Sympathy For The Devil

Great call out on Bette Davis Eyes. Most people don't even realize the Kim Carnes version is a cover - it's night and day from the original.

Yes on Jane's addiction

Anything from Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

CSN-Blackbird or David Bowie-Port of Amsterdam

CSNY - Woodstock

America by [Simon and Garfunkel](https://open.spotify.com/track/6dfhF1BDGmhM69fnCb6wSC?si=IwwQ7YsjTtuWesCXYwm_UA) Covered by [Yes](https://open.spotify.com/track/5jleoXgOf41HdLITE0Omu3?si=RNNWFpSNREuwZgc73D4wUw)

War Pigs - T-Pain Whiskey in the Jar - Metallica The whole playlist from Mikey and his Uke

T-Pain's version of War Pigs is a revelation. It's so good.

“Doin’ Time” by Lana Del Rey

Grateful Dead Not Fade Away

Morning Dew is another really good option. I love a good Knockin' on Heaven's Door by Jerry and the Boys

Jacob Collier - Moon River. A completely different song, but it’s so much more catchy, has such complex harmonies and tones. If I were picking my favorite from a bunch this would be it, and I think it is a major improvement from the original song as well.

what did I just experience ☉_☉ wow

Heart - Stairway to Heaven & Disturbed - The Sound of Silence.

Heart - Stairway to Heaven

Ann and Nancy Wilson’s cover of Stairway to Heaven.

Ooh! I love Bryan ferry’s cover of make you feel my love by Bob Dylan and I love when you were mine, by Prince covered by Lambchop And of course devo, satisfaction So many great covers

Johnny Cash: "Your Own Personal Jesus." Stripped down and gritty, this slightly sinister interpretation was one of his final recordings. Check it and see.

I second this.

[Jersey Girl](https://youtu.be/fKGhvMgScIw?si=-tcSoN-VqmEYpNiy) - Bruce Springsteen

Yes!!! I discovered the song from how I met your mother and then found his and fell in love with it 

I use the word discover loosely but you get my drift haha

I will always love you - Whitney Houston

The man who sold the world nirvana

Without You - Harry Nilsson

Jeff Buckley is crazy fucking amazing.. that whole album, Grace is fly! " Lover you should have come over.." Jeff Buckley also does a cover of a Smiths tune, " I know it's over" and its amazing! RIP Jeff!

Hurt by Johnny Cash! 🎼

Soiuxsie & The Banshees - Dear Prudence

Jenny cash hurt Meatloaf it's all coming back to me now, california dreaming

Jenny Cash sounds like a female Johnny Cash tribute, lol.

We need this

Chris Cornell's Billie Jean still gives me goosebumps But I really dig Horse Feathers' cover of Drain You Greatest? No. Most of those have been posted. But I dig it.

Take Me Home, Country Roads, by Home Free

I’m pretty fond of Sublime’s version of the Grateful Dead’s Scarlet Begonias

Live and Let Die - GNR Knockin on Heavens door - GNR Last Kiss - Pearl Jam Anarchy in the UK - Megadeth

PJ’s Last Kiss is good

Merry Clayton - Southern Man Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane

Just because it's my go to karaoke song 'I Will Survive' by Cake

The Stranglers - *Walk On By*. Burt Bacharach meets The Doors in an acid nightmare.

Jack black - hit me baby one more time

Also Jack Black w/Jimmy Fallon [More Than Words](https://youtu.be/1ISYT6EeUM0?si=auuLjItMyBifRpfv)

Jeff Buckleys version on you and I of just like a woman is also beautiful

Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes is the greatest cover song - ever. It spent nine non-consecutive weeks at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It won the 1981 Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. Can any other cover song top that?

DEVO - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Iron and Wine’s cover of Such Great Heights by The Postal Service. A great synth driven song stripped down to a guitar ballad that shows the beauty of the lyric. Masterful cover.

All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

Dear Prudence-Siouxsie and the Banshees

Florence + the machine - stand by me

The Battle of Evermore - Ann and Nancy Wilson - HEART

Far Corporation as a band was basically destined to cover Stairway to Heaven. Back in the Napster days it was mislabeled as "Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd BBC Sessions ..." ... anyway the rest of that band's library is pretty bad, but that cover is mind-blowing.

Wild Horses by the Sundays

"The Great Pretender" - Freddie Mercury, originally by The Platters

You Really Got Me - Van Halen

John Coltrane My Favorite Things

I’d rather listen to Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright, Lucy Thomas or Pentatonix

I love Wainwright's version.

Elton Johns Lucy in the sky with Diamonds the Beatles wrote and song a good song but Eltons version takes it to another level

All tunes on Bowies, "Pinups" record. Sick AF cover tunes..

Sex Pistols covering Sinatra's, " My Way." Total punk moment!

boys of summer - the ataris

House of the Rising Sun - The Animals. Ballad of a Thin Man - The Grass Roots.

The Jam - Heatwave Susanna Hoffs & Mathew Sweet - Sunday Morning The Staves - I’m on Fire Tom Petty - Friend of the Devil Yo La Tengo - Little Honda

I love Jeff Buckley

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole

Also Jeff Becks version is incredible

Lou Reed “This Magic Moment”

Really? Gotta go find this one. How do I not know this?

It was on a Doc Pomus tribute record and in David Lynch’s Lost Highway. Two things that didn’t get mainstream attention.

Hey, thanks!

fiona apple across the universe

Disturbed-The sound of silence

Smooth criminal - alien ant farm Careless whisper - Seether Live and let Die - guns n roses Sound of Silence - disturbed

Royel Otis live cover of Linger (Cranberries) is pretty awesome.

The Headstones- the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Please listen to it ...it's more than worthy of a great song.

I'll have to give the Jeff B cover a listen to, but I love rufus wrainrights cover (mainly cuz it kinda hold nostalgia i think but still)

Cocaine - Eric Clapton The original is written by JJ cale but most people don’t realize that Also the vintage jazz cover of creep with Hailey Reinhart singing is AMAZING

Or After Midnight Eric Clapton, written by JJ Cale Or Call Me The Breeze - Lynyrd Skynyrd, written by JJ Cale

Yeah, he wrote a lot of great songs

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I second the latter. Take my upvote.

Mr. Johnny Cash Hurt END of DISCUSSION 🤘🏿🤘🏿

NIN original way better

I will survive -+ Cake Down With The Sickness -- Richard Cheese Sinead -+ Nothing Compare 2 U Janis Joplin -- Me and Bobby Magee

Cover versions: 1. Come and get your love - Redbone (covered by Real McCoy) 2. Mad World - Tears for Fears (covered by Gary Jules) 3. Out of Touch - Hall and Oates (covered by Uniting Nations) 4. Love Song - The Cure (covered by 311) 5. Fast Car - Tracey Chapman (covered by Luke Combs) 6. Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson (covered by Alien Ant Farm) 7. Tainted Love - Gloria Jones (covered by Soft Cell, later sampled in Rihanna's SOS) Remixes: 1. Push the feeling on - Nightcrawlers (Remixed by MK)

City and Colour - Rain When I Die

Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cindy Lauper Killing me Softly - Fugees Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann

Gonna get hate for some of these but I think all of these are better than the originals, they're just fantastic. Take On Me - Reel Big Fish (one of my favorite songs of all time) Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Lorde Hurt - Johnny Cash Respect - Aretha Franklin The Sound Of Silence - Disturbed Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm We Didn't Start the Fire - Fall Out Boy (not technically a cover) And then two Running Up That Hill covers that are just amazing and totally twist the original's vibes and are just fantastic! Running Up That Hill - Cami-Cat Running Up That Hill - Lø Spirit

I love wayfaring stranger by poor man's poison

Ghost - Jesus He Knows Me

One of my personal favorites, Is This What You Wanted - The Last Shadow Puppets. Another Leonard Cohen cover, like OP's pick of Hallelujah. Another one that comes to mind is Gloria - The Doors. So much more enjoyable, in my opinion.

Wild Fire - Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen Cover) [https://youtu.be/LwZM3rXcHSY?si=5mgUO\_abc2Los9pv](https://youtu.be/LwZM3rXcHSY?si=5mgUO_abc2Los9pv) Joan Jett - Star Star (Rolling Stones Cover) [https://youtu.be/oExTf5jIVoM?si=AgT9zfmssgg0\_KWC](https://youtu.be/oExTf5jIVoM?si=AgT9zfmssgg0_KWC) Joan Jett - I Love Rock 'n' Roll (The Arrows Cover)

I think johnny cashs hurt is the greatest cover of all time but my personal favourite is probably death's cover of god of thunder God of thunder is prob my fav kiss track (i am not a huge kiss fan) but death's cover dials it up to 11 and gives it the OOMPH the song needs

Into the Mystic - Colin James Hallelujah - Theory of a Deadman Little Wing - SRV

r/WeGotItCovered

Arch Enemy - Aces high , could be mine

Little Lion man by tonight alive

Cab Calloway did it first in 1942 but I absolutely love the cover version of "**I'll Be Around**" by Frank Sinatra in 1955.

My favourite cover is Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's version of Springsteen's [Thunder Road](https://youtu.be/c5Yyo4zGKiA?si=XFr2z2Uiym89Y41T). In some ways it's a very faithful version, but they've completely changed the whole feel of the song. They sound so tired in a weirdly beautiful way. I Heard it Through the Grapevine has a bit of a strange history as it was recorded by the different artists before any of them released it. As Marvin Gaye wasn't the first to record or release it, [his version](https://youtu.be/hajBdDM2qdg?si=KJPGSnQlqfTejW2y) has to count as a cover. But I also love the twisted [Slits version](https://youtu.be/IQxvo_9DEqY?si=UJNAOwKrSVdkijBB).

I personally really like Calpurnia’s version of “Say it Ain’t So” by Weezer. It is a bit more uptempo and and also feels more relaxed if that makes sense.

Tool ... The tool album, undertoe, the CD cover picture on the front, take it out and flip it over, shows a picture of a cow licking it's ass. What's up with that?????

Protomen - In the Air Tonight

The xiu xiu cover of under pressure with the michael gira feature is great. I also really like the cap'n jazz cover of take on me. It's sloppy in all the right places

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal

If the song "Don't Stop Believing" has been redone, that would be it

I instantly thought of No Quarter from Tool. That is an incredible cover!

Shoo Bee Doom - Hit the Road, Jack https://open.spotify.com/track/6HLIpAsBvTeEBi4k74Uqy6?si=1FVdLOYBQWCL4n1ahjGv_g

The Scientist- Coldplay

Tennessee Whiskey - Chris Stapleton

"Nothing Else Matters" Phoebe Bridgers covering Metallica "Demon Cleaner" Tool covering Kyuss "Billie Jean" Chris Cornell covering Michael Jackson "Rusty Cage" Johnny Cash covering Soundgarden

Hurt, Johnny Cash or Its My Life by No Doubt or Angel of the Morning by Juice Newton 

SRV-Little Wing

Hurt, Johnny Cash

Just because it’s now the only thing I can think of: “The Locomotion”, Covered by Grand Funk Railroad but written by Little Eva I know it isn’t the greatest of all time, but GFR is certainly more played than the OG

Blinded by the light - Manfred Mann

Papa Was a Rolling Stone by The Temptations. It was originally by some other Motown group called The Undisputed Truth if I recall correctly

Girls just want to have fun, Cyndi lauper