Your Favorite Cover Songs?

well, apart from really liking SHEL's cover that Mofi posted (thanks Mofi!), here are a few of mine:

Thunder Road (Springsteen) by Cowboy Junkies

Darkness, Darkness (Youngbloods) by Cowboy Junkies

Over the Rainbow by Eva Cassidy. also - pretty much everything Eva Cassidy did was a top cover.

Agree that the SHEL cover is very good, thanks for posting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Us-TVg40ExM

A favorite from the first time I heard it, and definitely one of the most unique.

@ Marakanetz

Zappa covering Led Zeppelin songs! I'll have to check that out.

Hendrix-All Along the Watchtower (Dylan)
Nouvelle Vague-Guns of Brixton (Clash)
Shonen Knife-Top of the World (Carpenters)
Odetta-Times They Are a Changin' (Dylan)
Orbison, Nazareth-Love Hurts (Everly Brothers)
Be Good Tanyas-Waiting Around to Die (Townes Van Zandt)
My Chemical Romance-Desolation Row (Dylan)

I also like the Cowboy Junkies cover of Thunder Road and the Dread Zeppelin covers mentioned above (I particularly like the mashup of Zeppelin's Heartbreaker and Elvis' Heartbreak Hotel).

For so aweful, it is inspiring:

Sebastian Cabot reciting Dylan songs (e.g., It Ain't Me Babe)

Bob Dylan and Tiny Tim doing Sonny and Cher's "I've Got You Babe"

Captain Kirk doing "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

Mae West doing "Twist and Shout," which is itself, a cover/ripoff of "La Bamba"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aF9AJm0RFc