NORML54601

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "Thunder Road"
Johnny Cash - "I See A Darkness" & "Personal Jesus"
William Shatner - "Common People"

These I've heard live:

Ben Harper - "Sexual Healing"
Elliott Smith - "Jealous Guy"

The Infidel

Social Distortion - "Ring of Fire"

Snowmaker

Sepultura - Orgazmatron

reverie

Elton John - "The Show Must Go On"
and going the other way:
Sting - "Come Down In Time"

Byron_T

Tool - "No Quarter"

Michael Corvin

These are excellent:

Kid Rock - Country Boy Can Survive (Hank Williams)
Me First & the Gimmie Gimmies - Country Road (John Denver)
Joe Cocker - With a Little Help From My Friends (Beatles)
Van Halen - You've Really Got Me (the Kinks)
Eddie Vedder - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (Beatles)

Seen Live:
Queensryce & Dream Theater together on: Don't Get Fooled Again by the Who.

slop101

The Small Faces' "Song of a Baker" covered by Ocean Colour Scene.

Mondo Kane

"California Sun" The Ramones
"This woman's work" Maxwell
"Astronomy Domine" Voivod
"Tainted Love" Soft Cell
"Killing Me Softly" The Fugees
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" Slayer
"If you think you're lonely now" K-Ci
"My Way" Sid Vicious
"I'm Hurting Inside" Cedella Marley
"Higher Ground" Red Hot Chili Peppers
"The End of the World" Nina Gordon
"Creep" Richard Cheese

AnonomusBob15

Nobody Does it Better - Radiohead
Like a Prayer - Guster

Big Boy Laroux

a few i really like, most coming from my collection

Guster - "(Nothing But) Flowers"
Roger Clyne and the Peacmakers - "Baba O'Riley" (not on a cd release, but they play it at their shows)
William Shatner - "Rocketman"
Ben Folds - "Bitches Ain't Shit"
Kasey Chambers - "Dam" (oriinally by Matthew Ryan)
Better Than Ezra - "Laid" (although the James original is better, i still like this version)
Big Head Todd - "Tangerine"
Counting Crows - "Big Yellow Taxi" (the version WITHOUT vanessa carlton)
Iron and Wine - "Such Great Heights" (i really like the orginal, too, but the slower tempo on this one is great)
Jack Johnson - "We're Going to be Friends" (great laid-back cover of the white stripes)
Lemonheads - "Mrs. Robinson"

and one of the best ever:

Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"

Brain Stew

"Que Sera, Sera" - Sly & the Family Stone
"Thank You" - Flaming Lips

The Bus

Electrelane doing Bruce Springsteen's "I'm on Fire"

nodeerforamonth

I love a good cover song!

1. Less Than Jake: I Think I Love You (Partridge Family)
2. Stick Figure Suicide: Anything, Anything (Dramarama)
3. Anthrax: Next To You (The Police)
4. Atomic Bitchwax: Combination (Aerosmith)
5. Antiseen: Destroyer (The Kinks)
6. Celebrity Skin: S.O.S. (Abba)
7. Dynamite Boy: I Want It That Way (Backstreet Boys)
8. 1,000 Mona Lisas: You Outta Know (Alanis Morrisette)
9. The Bradleys: Walking On Sunshine (Katrina & The Waves)
10. Die Kreuzen: Seasons Of Wither (Aerosmith)
11. Die Toten Hosen: Hang On Sloopy (Wes Farrell?)
12. The Heretics: Mississippi Queen (Mountain)
13. Seaweed: Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)
14. Bastards: Come On And Dance (Motley Crue)
15. The Frustrators: My Best Friend's Girl (The Cars)
16. L7: Hangin' On The Telephone (Blondie... well Blondie made it famous)
17. Supersuckers: Hey Ya (Outcast)
18. Lunachicks: More Than A Feeling (Boston)
19. Throwdown: Baby Got Back (Sir Mix Alot?)
20. Ladykillers: Won't Back Down (Tom Petty)
21. Mighty Mighty Bosstones: Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith)
22. Sinisters: Clampdown (The Clash)
23. Pennywise: Surfin' USA (Beach Boys)
24. The Vikings: Let's Go (Bay City Rollers)
25. Psychotic Youth: Cold Hard Cash (Greg Kihn)
26. Suicide Machines: It's The End Of The World (REM)
27. Black Halos: Deuce (KISS)

The Goo Goo Dolls also do some great covers:
Down On The Corner (Creedence)
Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Prince)
Nothing Can Change You (Tommy Keene)
Gimmie Shelter (Stones)
Sunshine Of Your Love (Cream)
Don't Fear The Reaper (BOC)
I Want To Destroy You (Robyn Hitchcock)

Soul Asylum too!
Juke Box Hero (Foreigner)
Move Over (Janis Joplin)
Tracks Of My Tears (Smoky Robinson)
Sexual Healing (Marvin Gaye)
James At 16 (a medley of about 15 different songs!)

A band called Frankenstein 3000 put out an all covers album. It was my favorite release of 2005:

1. Welcome To The Monkey House
(originally recorded by The Dandy Warhols)
2. Good Morning, Good Morning
(originally recorded by The Beatles)
3. Sheer Heart Attack
(originally recorded by Queen)
4. American Nights w/Cherie Currie
(originally recorded by The Runaways)
5. Bop 'Til You Drop w/Cheetah Chrome
(originally recorded by The Ramones)
6. Blockbuster
(originally recorded by Sweet)
7. Lookout
(originally recorded by Cheap Trick)
8. Shonen Knife
(originally recorded by Redd Kross)
9. 20th Century Boy w/ Shawn Mars, Steve Conte and Leif Garrett
(originally recorded by T Rex)
10. It's Only Love
(originally recorded by The Wildhearts)
11. Can't Stand It
(originally recorded by Velvet Underground)
12. Pussy And Money
(originally recorded by The Dictators)
13. Rockaway Beach w/"Handsome" Dick Manitoba
(originally recorded by The Ramones)
14. Babylon w/David Johansen
(originally recorded by The New York Dolls)
15. I'm The Man w/Derwood Andrews
(originally recorded by Joe Jackson)
16. Mystery Achievement
(originally recorded by The Pretenders)
17. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)/The End
(originally recorded by The Beatles)

bigjim25

Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band - War & Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town

deadlax

The Who - Summertime Blues
Pearl Jam - Little Wing
Grateful Dead - Peggy-O (Traditional)
The Byrds - You Ain't Going Nowhere (or almost any of their Dylan songs)
Iron and Wine - Waiting for a Superman
The Black Crowes - He's Gone
Wilco - Love and Mercy

grunter

Phish - "Loving Cup"
U2 - "Dancing Barefoot"
7 Seconds - "99 Luftballoons"
Gary Jules - "Mad World"
Maxwell - "This Woman's Work"
The Cure - "Purple Haze" (because it's just so very wrong)
Depeche Mode - "Route 66"
R.E.M. - "Femme Fatale"

Decker

I've mentioned this before in another thread : John Mellencamp's cover of Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolliing Stone" from the 30th Anniversary Concert CD is just amazing; evven giving the original a run for it's money. That collection has Johnny Cash and June Carter doing "It Ain't Me Babe, as well -- another classic.

paulringodaman

Social Distortion - Under My Thumb
Act Naturally - Beatles
Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann Earth Band

Jack Straw

Coldplay's "The Scientist" as covered by Aimee Mann live on her 2-disc Spec. Edit. of Lost In Space.

Rocketdog2000

Not that there's anything wrong with the original versions of these songs, but here's some I like the covers of...

Flickerstick - "Fade Into You" (Mazzy Star)
Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah" (Leonard Cohen)
Magnet - "Dancing In the Moonlight" (Thin Lizzy)
Matt Pond PA - "Champagne Supernova" (Oasis)
Ryan Adams - "Wonderwall" (Oasis)
Petra Hayden & Bill Frisell - "Yellow" (Coldplay)
Athenaeum - "Little Red Corvette" (Prince)
Foo Fighters - "Darling Nikki" (Prince), "Baker Street" (Gerry Rafferty)
The Wallflowers - "Too Late For Goodbyes" (Julian Lennon)
Aerosmith - "Come Together" (The Beatles)
The Doves - "Blackbird" (The Beatles)
Owsley - "Band On The Run" (Paul McCartney)
Semisonic - "The Air That I Breathe" (The Hollies)
Fastball - "The Real Me" (The Who), and W.A.S.P. does a pretty good cover of this, too.
Stereophonics - "Who Are You" (The Who)
Pearl Jam - "Baba O'Reilly" (The Who), "I Got You" (Split Enz)
Goo Goo Dolls - "Don't Change" (INXS)
Van Halen - "You Really Got Me" (The Kinks)
The Knack - "The Hard Way" (The Kinks)
Cheap Trick - "Ain't That A Shame" (Fats Domino)
Manfred Mann - "For You" (Bruce Springsteen)
Judas Priest - "Diamonds & Rust" (Joan Baez)
Rob Zombie - "I'm Your Boogie Man" (KC & the Sunshine Band)
SR-71 - "Let It Whip" (The Dazz Band)
Type O Negative - "Summer Breeze" (Seals & Kroft)
Thin Lizzy - "Rosalie" (Bob Seger)
Jeff Healy Band - "White Room" and "Badge" (Cream)
The Rembrandts - "Making Plans For Nigel" (XTC)
Jellyfish - "No Matter What" (Badfinger)
Matthew Sweet - "Cortez The Killer" (Neil Young)
Bush - "The One I Love" (R.E.M.)
Concrete Blonde - "Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix)
John Wesley Harding - "If You Have Ghosts" (Roky Ericson/13th Floor Elevators)

PopcornTreeCt

Anyone know where I can find a lot of these songs? I'd love to hear some of them.

Triple S

Local H - Toxic
The Cure - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Incubus - No Scrubs (well, part of it anyway...)

mndtrp

Mine have been listed above, so I'll throw in the ones I hate:

Any of Six Feet Under's covers of AC/DC songs. Terrible.

grunter

A couple more:

Garth Brooks - "Hard Luck Woman"
Dinosaur Jr. - "Just Like Heaven"

Giles

dubstar - (Pet Shop Boys) 'Jealousy'
Ocean Blue - There is A Light That Never Goes Out
Boo Radley's - There She Goes