Favourite cover versions of songs...

[Metalhead]

 

[Kalinychta]

This is BEAUTIFUL!

 

[Kalinychta]

Tori Amos
“Wrapped Around Your Finger” (live Police cover)
Tori does everything better.

 

[Loren]

 

[Isadoorian]

All of these are covers by Daniela Andrade

Bang Bang, originally by Frank Sinatra

Mishmash of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Back Home" by Caribou

La Vie en Rose, originally by Edith Plaf

Crazy in Love, originally by Beyonce

 

[Isadoorian]

Ghost Riders in the Sky, originally by Johnny Cash (Cover by Die Apokalyptischen Reiter)

Come As You Are, originally by Nirvana (Cover by Civil Twilight)

Skinny Love, originally by Bon Iver (Cover by Birdy)

Billie Jean, originally by Michael Jackson (Cover by EDEN/The Eden Project)

Mad World, originally by Tears for Fears (Cover by Gary Jules)

Hurt, originally by Nine Inch Nails (Cover by Johnny Cash)
Johnny Cash - Hurt

Stand By Me, originally by Ben E King (Cover by Florence + The Machine)
Florence + The Machine - Stand By Me

Coming Down, originally by Anais Mitchell (Cover by Bon Iver)
Bon Iver - Coming Down (Anais Mitchell Cover)

American Oxygen, originally by Rihanna (Cover by X Ambassadors)
X Ambassadors - American Oxygen

Electric Feel, originally by MGMT (Cover by Henry Green)
Henry Green - Electric Feel

Nothing Compares to You, originally by Sinead O'Conner (Cover by Capital Cities)
Capital Cities - Nothing Compares 2 U

 

[Fact Ten]

"Springhill Mining Disaster" as covered by Luke Kelly, year unknown
"Springhill Mining Disaster" as covered by U2, 1987
Originally written and performed by Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl, 1959

I find the original to be too light-hearted but I feel like the Luke Kelly and U2 versions both treat the event with the appropriate gravitas.

 

[Bolletje]

 

[AGXStarseed]

A Japanese rock cover of "Rule Britannia". Honestly, I was laughing throughout but I love it.

 

[Gracey]

Beatles.
Come Together,
released in 1969.

Ike and Tina Turner covered it in 1970.

Both great.

 

[Gracey]

Acoustic cover of Aha's Take on Me.

Used in the movie Deadpool2

 

[AGXStarseed]

Delilah - Tom Jones (Cover by Metal Scent)

 

[Loren]

 

[Peter Jansen]

I like the Johnny Cash version of "Personal Jesus" better than the Duran Duran original.

 

[Destination Unknown]

 

[Ella Spell]

Prince, Tom Petty, Dhani Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood:
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (George Harrison)

Bring Me The Horizon:
When The Party's Over (Billie Eilish)

Charles Bradley:
Changes (Black Sabbath)

Fleet Foxes:
I Can't Help Falling In Love With You (Elvis Presley)

 

[AGXStarseed]

Because the Night - Synthwave cover by The Midnight (ft. Nikki Flores)

 

[Magna]

Just a few...

 

[Magna]

 

[Magna]