Best Cover Ever

[HTID Raver]

all along the watchtower by jimmy hendrix

twist and shout by the beatles

and long tall sally by the beatles

 

[Me55enger]

Careless Whisper - Seether.

EDIT: Stereophonic's acoustic cover of "Best of You" - Foo Fighters.

 

[shwnbob]

Just about every song Streetlight Manifesto covered in their new album was awesome!

 

[ButanicXpandA]

H.I.M's cover of 'wicked game' -Chris Isaak
Korn's cover of 'another brick in the wall' -Pink Floyd
Children of Bodom's cover of 'rebel yell' -Billy Idol
16 Volt's cover of Disarm -Smashing Pumkins

i have many more, but these ones were the first to come to mind.

 

[Me55enger]

Korn's cover of 'another brick in the wall' -Pink Floyd

Err... no.

EDIT: "I would reassess your musical taste" - Mum

 

[elcamino41383]

Otep's cover of Nirvana's Breed
Dope's covers of "Spin Me 'Round" (no idea what band, don't care to look right now, lol)"Rebel Yell" (Billy Idol) and "People are People" (Depeche Mode)
Limp Bizkit's cover of George Michael's "Faith"

those are all I can think of right now...

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Killswitch Engage's cover of Holy Diver was pretty awesome...dunno if thats my favourite though, that was just the first one i thought of.

 

[Xeros]

SnappleMan's Dead Batteries, cover of Flying Battery Zone from Sonic and Knuckles from the Project Chaos arrangement.

Spoiler: Best. Cover. Ever.

 

[TheTrips]

Fightstar's cover of Battlefield - Jordin Sparks

New found Glory's cover of King Of Wishful Thinking - Go West

Fightstar (again) Covering She Drove Me To Daytime TV - Funeral For A Friend

Enter Shikari's cover of Day And Nigh - Kid Cudi

All really good covers. God bless Radio 1 live lounge

 

[ethaninja]

Axel Rudi Pell's version of In The Air Tonight
Metallica's, Whiskey in The Jar

 

[Toriver]

Every cover done acoustically by Aaron Lewis, lead singer of Staind. He can take any hard rock song and make it sound acoustically amazing. He pulls this off especially effectively with Staind's own songs, but as I'm not sure if they would technically be covers then, I'll just provide examples of more "legit" covers he's done.

Spoiler: Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

Spoiler: Patience - Guns n' Roses

Spoiler: Black - Pearl Jam

There's many more where those came from. Sorry I couldn't get better quality videos; it's just what came up in a Youtube search. I have much better quality mp3s of them, though.

 

[RyanBishop]

Does this count?

This and Metallica's Whiskey in the Jar
Trivium's version of Master of Puppets is kickass as well... so that too.

 

[Radelaide]

Metallica's cover of 'Whiskey in the jar'

Yes

Also, A Perfect Circle's cover of Imagine. It's mind-blowingly awesome. And on Triple J's Like a Verson, Regina Spektor did an amazing cover of Radiohead's No Surprises. Worth checking out.

 

[ottenni]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground. Original song by Stevie Wonder.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

 

[heavy-metal-ink]

I actually prefer Metallica's cover of 'Turn the Page' to Whiskey.
Other then that, Zakk Wylde did a cover of 'Suicide Note: pt1' by Pantera for a MetalHammer cd that was insanely touching and well put together.

 

[JokerCrowe]

I think this is the best cover of a pop-song I've ever heard:
but I don't know the all around best one...
[sub]But this is the most creative one I've heard in a while [/sub]

 

[metacree]

Gotta represent my band here:

 

[Deadlock Radium]

Spoiler: Does this count?

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And this too:

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EDIT: I forgot this:

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[Sronpop]

Can't believe no one has mention Painkiller by Death, that cover is unreal!

Other good ones are:
Fucking Hostile - Machine Head
Cemetery Gates - Evile
Holy Diver - Killswitch Engage
War Pigs - Faith No More
Maniac - Firewind
Breaking The Law - Firewind