All Along the Watchtower covered by Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica).

Trent Reznor himself admitted that it’s Cash’s song now.

Social Distortion did a good job with Johnny Cash.

I think it's differently good but still prefer the original. I think there's something more compelling in the arrangement and orchestration of the original.

Good for anyone who likes that version, but I could never get into it. It is okay, but will always pale in comparison to the raw emotions of the original, in my opinion.

Pretty much any song he covered ended up being the definitive version.

I'm not saying you're wrong but I do think the love of this cover is one of the most insane popular opinions in all of music. I will die on the hill that if it was anyone other than the man in black, everyone would agree.

It sounds so, so bad to me. People say you can really hear the hurt in his voice but he sounds no different than any old man who used to sing but hasn't kept up the practice. It's warbly and honestly sounds like shit. The instrumentation is equally boring

People (not you) say there's more emotion than the original but Trent Reznor sounds like he's actively going through withdrawals, expressing several different emotions as the song evolves.

Sorry for the rant. I'll cap it off by saying it's equally dumb to me that the song is about pain and regret but Cash's music video just....aggrandizes his life with a montage of classic Johnny Cash moments.

For me it's a toss-up between the Gary Jules cover and the Alex Parks cover.

Also by the Imagine Dragons version was great.

The Coil version is cool (coil?) as well.

Broken Peach - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q45yicposyI

This was my introduction to this song, and for the longest time I thought it was original content.

Here's your reminder!

That whole album is full of contenders. I love minor threat's "in my eyes", but honestly I think rage's cover just edges it out for me. Zach just goes all in on the vocals and it's so good.

Didn't know that was a cover, but also recently found out that Ghost of Tom Joad was a cover too. That's the one I came to post.

BWAA BWAA chka BWAA chka BWAA chka chka

Came here for this

Thank you, cultured netizen

Janis for sure

Trapped, hell yes!

Slight thing, Campbell didn't write Withita Lineman, but it was written for him.

Fun fact, Jimmy Webb, who wrote it, hated the "And I need you more than want you / And I want you for all time" line and begged the producers to change it when that plus the ambiguity of the key its in are arguably what make the song.

VKTRS by TPotUSoA is neutral genre swap, probably a downgrade honestly. The original has a wistful, nostalgic tone that supports the content of the lyrics. I just binged all the covers I could find, and the only one that really does anything with it is Postmodern Jukebox.

I like their Imagine too. The whole.album I generally like more than the originals.

Orgy - Blue Monday

Hell yeah, I loved Orgy. Still do, but I used to too. That cover of Blue Monday got heavy rotation in middle school. Their first two albums, 'Candyass' and 'Vapor Transmission' still hold up. At least much better than some of the rubbish that got lumped into nü metal by proximity back then.

I like Sinead O'Connor's version, but it still counts because it's also a cover.

Chris Cornell's Ave Maria gives me chills!

And the absolute greatest part of his cover is that when it comes to the guitar solo at the end you think either he or Belew (whomever was on that tour) are about to shred Jimmy Page's solo they do not.

Instead he does a homage by having this horn section cover Page's solo note for note.

ECB is awesome.

Also Joplin's recording of Me and Bobby McGee.

And Dr Hook's Cover of the Rolling Stone.

I always thought Suzanna wrote that song

The Rufus Wainright version of Hallelujah from Shrek 1 (but the Jeff Buckley and John Cale versions are even better)

Quite the collection and I love it

If we're talking great "They Don't Care About Us" covers, it's impossible to leave Beast in Black out of the conversation.

Going to have to disagree on Comfortably Numb. To me that is a song that cannot be covered

Holy shit I could not disagree with you more. Tears for Fears’ original version is far superior to any cover I’ve heard, including and especially Gary Jules.
You’re welcome to your opinion but wow I can’t stress enough how much I hate it.

The disturbed song soured on me after the singer signed bombs for use against Gaza. I don't care what your political motivations are, signing bombs meant for killing people is bad. Fuck that band.

I'm baffled by how much people like the Disturbed version. I find it to be considerably worse than the original.

The Disturbed COVID video makes me cry every time.

Ramones version of California Sun is also better than the original