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Inlander:
If someone's going to cover a song, they damn well better make it their own.  Otherwise, why am I listening to their washed-out, washed-up version instead of the original?  To that end, from recent efforts I'd nominate Cat Power's version of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction".  Slowed to a crawl, stripped of the chorus - genius.

Going back into the classic rock-and-pop archive, Aretha Franklin's version of "Respect", originally written and performed by Otis Redding.  Obvious, yes, but how can you go past it?

Verek:
Styx did a sweet cover of I Am the Walrus.

For my money, it's better than the original, but that might just be because of higher production values due to technology. But it still rocks pretty hard.

And I agree with the first poster in the thread. FNM's cover of Easy is awesome. Simply because Mike Patton's voice is as smooth as silk, and also incredibly freaking awesome. Mike Patton > Most.

TripsRight:
three of my favorites actually both got passed up as of yet:

judas priest - diamonds and rust (joan baez)
the twangbangers - hot rod lincoln (commander cody - this song's bridge is about four minutes long, and includes 8-bar shoutouts to, oh, every artist ever.)
old 97's - el paso (marty robbins)

if you're ever in vegas and you like covers, you should cheeck out a local band called darby o'gill and the little people (yes, like the movie) - they play three times weekly, and they're an irish band who play traditional irish songs and covers.  if you haven't heard an irish band cover outkast, you haven't lived.

fleetingBassist:
when i first discovered the gourds' cover of gin and juice it was labeled as string cheese incident.  go figure.

let's get the worst covers out of the way... Papa Don't Preach by Kelly Osborne, Sweet Child Of Mine by Sheryl Crow and American Pie by Madonna come to mind.  As does 911 Is A Joke by Duran Duran.  A bunch of whiter than white guys singing about their disapproval of emergency services response time in underprivleged neighborhoods - as originally critiqued by Public Enemy?  that one takes the proverbial spongy dessert.

now the winners:

has anyone heard Ben Folds Five's cover of She Don't Use Jelly?  I love the lips dearly, but Ben's arrangement of the song is incredible.  it came from a comp called Lounge-a-palooza.  another interesting lips cover is Postal Service's Suddenly Everything Has Changed, though that doesn't really compare to the original.  i think PS's Against All Odds is a better cover.

the Futureheads’ Hounds of Love is a favorite, especially live when they have the crowd sing their parts.  and witnessing the Shins perform Holy Diver at the Bowery last year was priceless.

i'm also a fan of the covers on blue man group's complex album with Esthero singing White Rabbit and Annette from Venus Hum on I Feel Love.  the album's got gimmic coming out the wazzo, but i dig it.

...my a cappella group does a mean Superstition.  no, really.

Phrozen:
I just found a nice sounding cover of I Fought The Law done by Green Day. I rather like it.

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