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I bought a used copy of Giant Drag's album a month or so back and have been really enjoying the light and shade in this version of Chris Isaac's song:

Enjoying some of my Christmas CDs this morning and this popped up on a Heavenly compilation. Passed me by at the time, a joyful cover of the Jam song, that takes me back to the wonderful days of jangly indie pop:

It was the only place that you could get the studio version of John Cale's Hallelujah cover. I hadn't heard it until my kids got into repeated watchings of a Shrek DVD. (Which also contains Butterfly Boucher's lovely cover of 'Changes' with Bowie). On buying the soundtrack album, I was annoyed...

I'm listening to an album by M. Ward and he covers 'Oh Lonesome Me!' I checked the liner notes to find out who his duet partner was and found it was Lucinda Williams. Decent enough version, but doesn't spank the original. Hold on though, what's this next to the words 'Written by'? Don...

I hadn't heard that, but I'm not surprised that he did it. Billy is a long time Smiths fan. He also covered 'Jeane', the B Side to 'This Charming Man'. At a live show I saw a few years back he told an anecdote about spending New Year's Eve at Morrissey's place. The Smiths were involved in...

Somebody has Lauren Laverne on.

I don't know why this popped up on my Youtube recommendations 8 years after it was posted. I have no history of watching Patti Smith, Springsteen, Screaming Females or Garbage videos. I'm glad it did though. It seems a decent enough version with the two singers combining nicely and then at...

I'm sorry to be negative, but that was awful. Vedder can't do the screaming that Daltrey does with ease, and he can't hit the high notes that Townsend hits, so resorts to crowd surfing. The drummer is obviously not a patch on Moon doing his best impression of a drum kit being kicked down six...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agL9ftHYrRQ&t=1s Strange one this. 'Ca Pleine Pour moi' (Apparently translating as 'It's all working out for me') wasn't actually a cover version, but the Belgian producers took the backing track and used it to make both the French language hit and an English...

This is a paint by numbers cover of the Thin Lizzy original that was on a bootleg CD that I stumbled across recently. Worth mentioning only because it seems so off brand for Belle & Sebastian. The solos are spot on and they do seem to be having a lot of fun with it. I'd imagine that it was...

I've never much liked this song, neither the faux hippy throwaway pap of the Sonny & Cher original, nor the beyond dreadful Kasharoke cover by UB40 and Chrissie Hynde. Turns out that if you let Etta James sing it whilst backed by the Muscle Shoals house band, it sounds great.*...

Not necessarily a spanking, as the thread's catchphrase goes, but Tom Basden's rearrangement just gives a reminder, if its needed, that underneath the camp and the beards, the seventies outfits and the terribly sung jukebox musicals those Abba boys really were incredible songwriters...

Mention of The Archies on another thread reminded me of this. How it should have always sounded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2drhVj3FQ

I'm watching Adam Curtis's latest documentary series on BBC-iPlayer. The music is brilliant all the way through. This cover of a Roky Erikson song was played at the end of Episode 3. Passed me by when it originally came out. It's very Cowboy Junkies. Hard to compare with Rocky's own...

I'm not the greatest fan of Baronet Oswald Ernald Morrissey, but he is far more emotional, poignant and interesting singer than whoever Ronson has brought in to sing on his latest hack cover version. Not one of the best Smith's songs made worse.

I've got an old Booker T & The MGs album on and was so taken aback by this I've played it again a couple of times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt29X8XSP1c Definitely creams the Sonny & Cher version.

It's been on before and it's fairly uninspired. This thread spanks it. Spend an hour listening to some of the links on here again. Here's another that I don't think has been posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVu4e_SIvlQ

I've been listening to a bit of Primus lately and Youtube recommended this to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlQYxvOTM2Q I immediately thought of this thread.

Who knew this was actually a good tune? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-JG1ulBqE4

I'm glad somebody liked it as much as I did. Thanks for starting the thread in the first place. There has been some absolutely great stuff on here. The thread seems to missing anything from the 'Rawnboy' Youtube Channel. Its basically Ron Sexsmith's own version of the Great American Songbook...