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Just a few off the top of my head...


Better than the original:

Stevie Wonder - We Can Work It Out

Ken Boothe - Ain't No Sunshine

Johnny Cash - Hurt


Not better than the original, but still great:

The Jam - Heatwave

Nirvana - Man Who Sold The World

Specials - Monkey Man


Reasonable / interesting:

China Drum - Wuthering Heights

Joss Stone - Fell in love with a Boy

Ben Folds - Bitches Ain't Shit


Significantly Worse:

Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields

Sugarbabes - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor

The entire commitments soundtrack

Guns 'n' Roses have done a few fantastic covers - their version of Live and Let Die is almost cartoonish (if it is possible to sound so), and their version of Knocking on Heavens Door is possibly the best version there is!


For covers that are not so much better than the original but approach it so differently that it takes on a whole new form, the Tori Amos version of Smells Like Teen Spirit, performed as a solitary, emotional ballad and a tribute to Kurt, is chilling.

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