Covers That Surpass Their Originals

[Pete]

Here are some of mine:

Iron Savior - Neon Knights
Green Day - I Fought The Law
Good Riddance - In My Head
Beseech - Gimme Gimme Gimme
Toy Dolls - Livin' La Vida Loca
The Replacements - Hey Good Lookin'
The Ramones - Surfin' USA
The Beatles - Rock'n'Roll Music
Green Day - Outsider
Shonen Knife - Psycho Therapy
MxPx - Scooby Doo Where Are You?
Children Of Bodom - ...Oops I Did It Again
Metallica - Blitzkrieg
Sum 41 - How You Remind Me
Nirvana - Son Of A Gun
Nirvana - Molly's Lips
Nirvana - Love Buzz
Patti Smith - My Generation
Alestorm - You Are A Pirate
Dispatched - The Final Countdown
Guns'N'Roses - Mama Kin
Austrian Death Machine - Iron Fist
Metallica - Whiskey In The Jar
New Found Glory - My Heart Will Go On
Poison - Squeeze Box
Social Distortion - Ring Of Fire

More to be added as I remember them.

 

[Lewb]

New Found Glory - King of Wishful Thinking. Personal favorite of mine.

 

[Vivido]

HLAH (Head Like A Hole) - Im On Fire - YouTube

Here's some music all the way from New Zealand.

 

[John McHenry]

Bon Jovi - Knockin on Heaven's Door

 

[Lewb]

Guns N Roses - Live and Let Die

 

[Pete]

Bon Jovi did Knockin'? I thought G'n'R had done it!

 

[Smartmark]

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Havanna Affairs (Ramones Cover)

 

[John McHenry]

Bon Jovi did Knockin'? I thought G'n'R had done it!

Actually they both did but Jovi's is better.

[video=youtube;L-E8OqpEz00]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-E8OqpEz00[/video]

 

[Rated R Superstar]

I'm a personal fan of Metallica's cover of Turn The Page.

 

[The_King]

Here's a few of my personal favorites:

"I Want You Back"- KT Tunstall
"Bennie and the Jets" - Haley Reinhart
"Flagpole Sitta" - Lindsay Pavao
"Heartless" - Kris Allen (live version)
"Falling Slowly" - Kris Allen
"Lean on Me" - The Fray
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" - Relient K

I love covers haha!

 

[Edgeomatic]

Best cover of a Beatles song,

[video=youtube;_wG6Cgmgn5U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wG6Cgmgn5U[/video]

I like The GnR cover of knocking on heavens door a little more then the bon Jovi version.

 

[Chris]

I like "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" better by G&R.

"Bad Company" by Five Finger Death Punch is another one.

 

[Shaun]

I think the Run-DMC cover of Walk This Way is better than the Aerosmith version, if you can call it a cover seeing as Tyler is in the Run-DMC version.