So, a radio station in Australia has a segment called Like a Version where bands come in and record a cover and it's been going for 20 years, so they are having a countdown of your favourite ones. This got me thinking, what is your favourite cover of a song?

#1

I was only 19, by the Herd

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    #2

    Johnny Cash singing Hurt. Trent Reznor said something like "It is not my song anymore." That song always makes me cry, especially with video.

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    #3

    AJR singing Riptide

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    freakingbee is going offline
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    dude ethan is playing music off of my phone connected to the living room speaker and he just played the corn song and then rickrolled me😭😭

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    #4

    The Sound of Silence by Disturbed.

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    #5

    Teenage Dirtbag by Amy Shark

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    #6

    I love Black Nail Cabaret (a band from Hungary) and I think they are soooo underrated! Their original songs are great, but they can totally do cover versions too, e.g. these:

    Voyage Voyage (original version by Desireless).
    Rent (original version by Pet Shop Boys)
    Tell me it's not over (original version by Starsailor)

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    #7

    Look up Halocene, and their other linked bands/singers on Youtube, they do some fantastic covers. Their Bo Rahp is the best cover of that song I have ever heard.

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    #8

    My younger daughter enlightened me to Fiona Apple’s cover of The Beatles’ “Across The Universe”. It’s my current favorite cover.

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    #9

    the man who sold the world by nirvana. kurt cobain did a fantastic rendition of the david bowie song

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    #10

    Psalm 46 - Lord of Hosts
    By Ben S Dixon, originally by Shane & Shane

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    #11

    To add some kind of aussie content....
    " and the band played waltzing Matilda" (by eric bogle) covered by The Pogues..... A beautiful song made even better....
    ( one of the few high points of my life was once getting drunk at a BBQ in outback SA with Eric Bogle, in the 80s, and making him play it for me!)

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    Huddo's sister
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yay for the Aussie content! I can't remember if I had heard this version before, but I love it! (That must have been a crazy experience, I'm glad you were able to remember it after the fact 😀)

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    #12

    Summer Night City by Therion. It takes the pop tune of ABBA and transforms it into a symphonic metal masterpiece.

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    #13

    del mar county fair 2008 by cavetown

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    #14

    Mine probably has to be Little Lion Man done by Tonight Alive on Punk Goes Pop Vol4. I mean you really can't go wrong with a Punk Goes Pop song, they've created some of my favourite covers ever (honourable mentions to Flagpole Sitta by Chiodos & Toxic by A Static Lullaby) but Little Lion Man will always be my song and this version kicks it up a notch

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    #15

    Probably either Livin' La Vida Loca by Autumn Kings (originally by Ricky Martin) or Eleanor Rigby by Palaye Royale (originally by the Beatles)

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    #16

    Somebody told me by the killers covered by motionless in white

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    #17

    Jolene - Miley Cyrus

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