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Best cover songs?

What, in your opinion are the best cover songs ever recorded?

My top picks, in no particular order:

Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" (Leonard Cohen)
Dar Williams' "Comfortably Numb" (Pink FLoyd)
Matt Nathanson's "Romeo and Juliet" (Dire Straits)
R.E.M.'s "Dream" (Everly Brothers)
Jimi Hendrix' "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan)
Johnny Cash's "Hurt" (Nine Inch Nails)
The Beatles' "Twist and Shout" (Top Notes)
The Cowboy Junkies' "Sweet Jane" (Lou Reed)
The Sundays' "Wild Horses" (Rolling Stones)
Mindy Smith's "Jolene" (Dolly Parton)
theraiguy
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jsd52756
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Pat Boone doing Metallica's "Enter Sandman" is a hoot.
-John
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jond
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Steve Earle, "I'm looking through you" The Beatles
The Waifs, "Don't think twice, it's alright", Dylan
davetherave
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Simon and Garfunkel's "America," covered by Yes.

Hendrix's "Little Wing," covered by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows," covered by Phil Manzanera, et al on '801 Live.'
jaybo
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yes-'experience prefered, but not necc'(richie havens),,,,when they burst into 'the theme from 'the big country' its surreal
tvad
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Johnny Cash - "Hurt" (originally written and recorded by Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails). Cash's cover is a mind blower, especially when taken in context of his severely declining health at the time of the recording.

Vanilla Fudge - "You Keep Me Hangin' On" (originally recorded by The Supremes, and written by Holland-Dozier-Holland)

Cindy Lauper - "Money Changes Everything" (originally recorded by The Brains in 1980)
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