Favorite covers of other people's music

[Gamerforlife]

Eluveitie with a very "metal" take on the instrumental Andro

[flamepanther]

What a Fool Believes
Original by Doobie Brothers
Cover by Self, playing on toy instruments

Rocket Man
Original by Elton John
Cover by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Rock the Casbah
Original by The Clash
Cover by Richard Cheese

Hell's Bells
Original by AC/DC
Cover by Hayseed Dixie

Rich Girl
Original by Hall & Oates
Cover by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Smoke on the Water
Original by Deep Purple
Cover by a Japanese orchestra assembled for the anniversary of Ooedo No Hikeshi

[YoshiEgg25]

Rock the Casbah
Original by The Clash
Cover by Richard Cheese

Cheese's cover of "Creep" is astounding. I was considering adding that one into my post.

[fvgazi]

Yeah fellow Devo-tee!
Also while Devo's cover is weird and quirky in a more pleasant way, Around the sametime The Residents came out with their version, which is weirder, and little too assaulting on the ears. A better noise rock cover would be Big Black's version of Kraftwerk's The Model.

I like the Devo cover of Satisfaction so much better than the original! That Residents version is awesome! Really abrasive.

Primus - Hello Skinny/Constantinople Probably my favorite cover of all time. The Constantinople half is awesome.

Snakefinger did a great cover of The Model too (i know he used to preform with the residents or something) I think Melt Banana covered a kraftwerk song too.

CapN Jazz - Take on Me (by AHA)

Ex-Models did a crazy noise-rock cover of "She Blinded Me with Science" but I can't find it anywhere.

[AppleQueso]

Strapping Young Lad did an interesting cover of Melvins - Zodiac. It does the sort of thing I love to see in covers, where the band doing the covering really makes the song their own and offers a whole new spin on it.

Plus I happen to really like both bands

Zodiac
Original by Melvins
Cover by Strapping Young Lad

[noiseredux]

I honestly don't think there's a better cover than Sonic Youth's take on The Carpenter's "Superstar."

[flamepanther]

I just remembered one that should have been in my earlier post:


Blew

Original by Nirvana
Cover by Miyavi

[aaron]

Ben Folds covering the Cure's "In Between Days"

NOFX covering OMD's "Electricity"

The Living End covering Soft Cell's "Tainted Love"

Shellac covering AC/DC's "Jailbreak"

Red Hot Chili Peppers covering Iggy and the Stooges' "Search and Destroy"

Botch covering Carl Orff's "O Fortuna"

Shai Hulud covering Bad Religion's "Anesthesia"

i'm sure i could come up with more. i love covers.

[Hobie-wan]

Since I finally got a real copy of Sugarshit Sharp today I was reminded of this one.

Original - Einstürzende Neubauten – Yü-Gung (Fütter mein Ego)

Cover - Pussy Galore – Yü-Gung

[Luke]

The Bad Plus doing anything Aphex Twin related.