Favourite cover versions of songs...

[Aeolienne]

Angélique Kidjo, Once in a Lifetime

 

[AGXStarseed]

A few covers of songs from kids movies:

Declan Galbraith - Bright Eyes (Watership Down)

Celtic Woman - Someday (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Ashley Serena - If We Hold On Together (The Land Before Time)

Jonathan Young and Valentina Bonura - I See The Light (Tangled)

The D-Day Darlings and The D-Day Juniors - When You Wish Upon A Star (Pinocchio)

 

[Magna]

Angélique Kidjo, Once in a Lifetime

Thank you for posting this. Talking Heads is a favorite of mine and this cover and the video are great. The female coworker in the video: Is she the one who played the German woman in the movie Bagdad Café? If so, she was great in that movie and the movie was great as well.

 

[Aeolienne]

A few covers of songs from kids' movies:

And one from a most adult-rated movie*:

* The Wicker Man

 

[RobZombiefan]

 

[Aeolienne]

Back in the days when they were teenagers busking on the streets of Rome ...
Måneskin, Ragamuffin

 

[Vivisect]

2 of my fav covers, both from The Magicians-

 

[Aeolienne]

Doctor and the Medics, Spirit in the Sky
This song is a jinx - it's made a one-hit wonder out of two acts in two different decades. Three if you include Gareth Gates and the Kumars' charity version...

 

[AGXStarseed]

Sister Christian / Just Like Paradise / Nothin' But A Good Time - Rock of Ages (2012)

 

[Raggamuffin]

Easy Star All-Stars Dub Side of the Moon

Works seamlessly as reggae and dub cover songs by a very talented group.

Ed

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

 

[tkcartoonist]

This is probably my favorite Bob Dylan cover, done during a semi-acoustic set by the members of New Model Army:

Speaking of New Model Army, this cover is fine but not as good as the previous one. I'm only pointing it out because Tom Friggin' Jones of all people does the lead vocals. It's one of weirdest collaborations I've ever heard of:

 

[Aeolienne]

Proof (if it were needed) that not even 80s excess can ruin a masterpiece of songwriting.
RIP Stephen Sondheim.

 

[AGXStarseed]

Glory of Love - Alyona (Peter Cetera Cover)

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

This version of Touch Me in the Morning by Marlena Shaw is amazing and far better than the original which is hard to do as it was a Diana Ross song.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I think this is the best version of the song as the tempo matches the lyrics.

 

[Aeolienne]

A-ha, Crying in the Rain

 

[Callistemon]

Love this string cover of Metallica's One... (and I'm not a metalhead...)

And this cover of Hendrix' Purple Haze...

 

[AGXStarseed]

In the Air - Backfrom84 (Genesis Cover)

Love is a Battlefield - Mahoney (Pat Benatar Cover)

Maniac - Carpenter Brut ft. Yann Ligner (Michael Sembello Cover)

All The Small Things - Siamese Youth (Blink 182 Cover)

 

[Aeolienne]

Madness, It Must Be Love