Covers you like more than the original

I got thinking about this after following the soundtracks thread and realized that there are a lot of soundtrack cover versions that I really like - Echo and the Bunnymen doing “People Are Strange” in Lost Boys, for instance - and a conversation that I had the other day about cover versions that we liked more than the original or at least as much.

Some of my favs:

Johnny Cash's versions of “Rusty Cage” and “Hurt”
Social Distortion's version of “Ring of Fire”
Nirvana's version of “The Man Who Sold the World” (Sorry Mr. Bowie…
Alien Ant Farm's version of “Smooth Criminal”

and, as a special mention, Richard Cheese's version of “Down With the Sickness” - this isn't a “like more” so much as a “just really love it and the original”

Thoughts?

Cocteau Twins version of Tim Buckley's ‘Song to the Siren’, Johnny Cash's version of ‘Hurt’ and all of Hayseed Dixie's covers of classic tracks

Land of Confusion - Disturbed (orig. by Genesis)
Easy - Faith No More (orig. by the Commodores)
Crash Course in Brain Surgery - Metallica (orig. by The Buggles)
Whiskey in the Jar - Metallica (orig. by Thin Lizzy)
Turn the Page - Metallica (orig. by Bob Seger)
Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana (orig. by David Bowie)
Personal Jesus - Johnny Cash (orig. by Depeche Mode)
I Will Survive - Cake (orig. by Gloria Gaynor)
Baker Street - Foo Fighters (orig. by Gerry Rafferty)
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia (orig. by Ednaswap)
Bizarre Love Triangle - Frente (orig. by New Order)
Cum On Feel the Noize - Quiet Riot (orig. by Slade)
Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon - Urge Overkill (orig. by Neil Diamond)
Top of the World - Shonen Knife (orig. by The Carpenters)
Smooth Criminal - Alient Ant Farm (orig. by Michael Jackson)
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam (orig. by J. Frank Wilson)
Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies (orig. by Lou Reed)
Ring of Fire - Social Distortion (orig. by Johnny Cash)
Mrs. Robinson - the Lemonheads (orig. by Simon & Garfunkel)
Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles (orig. by Simon & Garfunkel)

Those are the only ones coming to me at the moment. I'll post more as I remember them.

Love Buzz - Nirvana
The Fox - Amnaeon
Mad World- Michael Andrews & Gary Jules

Thats a big list Lon but Metallica's ‘Whiskey in the Jar’ is just awful!!, Thin Lizzy's version rocks, and Eric Bell's guitar is beautiful. Its an old Irish folk song so both versions are covers, Bowies Man Who Sold The World is better too

Guns N Roses - Nice Boys(Rose Tattoo)
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams(Eurythmics)
Aerosmith - Come Together(Beatles)
Judas Priest - Green Manalishi(Fleetwood Mac)