While I love the original version, Seethers cover of Careless Whisper is one of my favourite songs ever.
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My absolute favorite is Hailstorm doing Daft Punks Get Lucky.
I also really like The Interrupters doing Bad Guy.
The Cleverlys have a lot of really good, over the top, bluegrass covers but I think my favorite might be Party Rock Anthem.
I could keep going on this subject for a while. I have a 12+ hour and growing playlist of nothing but covers that I really enjoy.
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faith no more’s easy
The Donnie Darko (slowed down version) of Tears for Fears, Mad World.
Great choice. That was done by Gary Jules, btw.
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Nirvana's version of The Man Who Sold the World.
This is one of my favorite songs of all time, and I quite liked the original even.
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Cardigans, Burning Down the House with Tom Jones. Of course the original is incredible, but this version slaps.
I find the original Talking Heads version to be too whiny. I don't find it enjoyable to sit through. The Cardigans/Tom Jones version I have one note, one change I'd make: Nina's vocals seem to have a band-pass filter applied, it sounds like she's literally phoning it in. I wouldn't have done that.
Goldfinger version of 99 red balloons absolutely nails it in my opinion
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Crooked Fingers - Long Black Veil
Johnny Cash - Hurt
The Disturbed cover of Land of Confusion
Or Disturbed's cover of Sound of Silence
I grew up listening to the original and I still like it very much, but that cover is one of the greatest songs I've ever listened to
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Way better understanding of the holy mission, ×1699 times expansion on what the original did
No one can compete with the king of parodying Weird Al
I'm not sure Last Kiss by Pearl Jam is actually better than the original but it definitely deserves honorable mention.
A weird one:
"Sludgefest", an old Alvin and the chipmunks pop record slowed back down to the speed the vocals were recorded.
The result is unironically good – a grimy, moody sound, with deep growling guitar.
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Whitney Houston's "I will always love you". I love Dolly Parton but Whitney slayed this song.
Eleanor Rigby by Pain
Saw that one live in 2002. Amazing show.
Last Resort by Falling in Reverse. This band has quickly become one of my favorites. Them and I Prevail can really throw down some emotions.
Very cinematic! It’s not really my thing, but damn that dude can sing his ass off!
Right? I'm not normally a screamo fan, but I tend to overlook that when there's some real emotion in a song. Their other stuff is pretty amazing, also. Some of my favorites are The Drug In Me is Reimagined, Voices in My Head, Popular Monster, and I'm Not a Vampire.
Last Resort as in Papa Roach's Last Resort?
That would be correct. I was in junior high or high school when Last Resort by Papa Roach was released. This version is so much more emotional, and given the lyrics, it fits!
A Perfect Circle's version of Imagine by John Lennon is my favorite cover song. They add so much groove, atmosphere and melancholy to the song. It's beautiful.
Eric Clapton's unplugged version of Layla is an entirely different experience than the original.
"See if you can spot this one..."
This is the opposite of what you're asking for, sorry, but I find that more people are familiar with the A Perfect Circle version of The Nurse Who Loved Me than they are with the original version by Failure.
Both very good versions song, but the original still blows me away.
Apologies for doing the opposite of what you asked, but this was just the first thing that came to mind.
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Judas Priest's "Painkiller" covered by Death is incredible.
If anyone wants to take a chance on a cover I recorded (all instruments and vocals) of Enslaved's "Havenless", check it out at this link (https://youtu.be/b1ByxMMnSfw)
Tool's cover of No Quarter by Led Zeppelin. Page was channeling future Adam Jones with those riffs. It's s a shame that the only official release of that song is on Tool's coveted "Salival" album which is notoriously hard to get ahold of for anything even resembling a decent price if you can even find a good copy. Damn, I wish they would re-release that album.
Such Great Heights covered by Streetlight Manifesto. This is one of the songs that makes me think about how much I love my wife.
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Aretha Franklin - Bridge Over Troubled Water (originally by Simon and Garfunkel)
Sly & The Family Stone - Que Sera, Sera (originally Doris Day)
The Isley Brothers - Love The One You're With (originally Steven Stills)
Tori Amos has an amazing cover album but her rendition of the Eminem song ’97 Bonnie & Clyde is honestly horrifying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4-bXS5LJGM
Also her cover of the Boom town rats I don’t like mondays is my favorite version of that song.