Best rock cover songs, list your favorites

A coupla oddball additions worth hearing:

Richard Thompson (monster guitarist) covering Britney Spears' "Oops, I did it Again".

Marshall Crenshaw (indie singer/songwriter) covering ABBA's "Knowing Me, Knowing You".

On a different note, I just picked up Todd Rundgren's Johnson - a CD of Robert Johnson covers. I saw him do this live and thought it worked pretty well. I was surprised to find that I like the CD even more than the live show. Definitely worth checking out if you like hard, crunching, electric blues guitar as channeled thru a player with a tremendous innate melodic gift.

Maybe I'm growing too cantakerous, but I find these Old, Musically Barren Rock Star Makes Covers Album exercises to be really dreary. Rod Stewart, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, even Glen freakin' Frey. Last really good one I hear was PinUps by David Bowie, which dates back to 1973.

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young cover of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock"

"The Star-Spangled Banner," Jimi at Woodstock
"The Little Drummer Boy," Joan Jett
"Rodeo," Emerson, Lake and Palmer
"Hall of the Mountain King," Electric Light Orchestra
"Everybody Knows," Concrete Blonde
"Sweet Jane," Cowboy Junkies
"Gloria," Patti Smith

All Along The Watchtower-Jimi Hendrix
Baker Street-Foo Fighters
Can't Find My Way Home-House Of Lords
For You-Manfred Mann
From The Beginning-Dokken
Lotta Love-Nicolette Larson
Saturday Night Special-Armored Saint
You Better Run-Pat Benatar
You Keep Me Hanging On-Vanilla Fudge
Your So Vain-Faster Pussycat
IMO only Baker Street and From The Beginning are superior by the original artist.