Favorite cover songs....

[boom-monkey]

Smashing Pumpkin's rendition of Landslide.

Some other great covers mentioned in here.

[e30e]

Totally forgot about Foo Fighters - Darling Nikki (Prince)

[Jand3rson]

Coal Chamber feat. Ozzy - Shock the monkey (Peter Gabriel)
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson)
HIM - Rebel Yell (Billy Idol)
Deadsy - Tom Sawyer (Rush)
The Ataris - Boys of Summer ( Don Henley)
Earth Crisis - Sunshine of your love (Cream)
In Flames - Land of confusion (Phil Colins)
Goldfinger - 99 red balloons (Nena)
Grade - Panama (Van Halen)
Machine Head - Message in a bottle (The Police)
My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row (Bob Dylan)
Orgy - Blue Monday (New Order)
Primus - Making plans for Nigel (XTC)
Snapcase - Truth hits everybody (The Police)
Bouncing Souls - Don't you forget about me (Simple Minds)

I actually have a whole playlist built in Winamp with these (and most of the ones listed previously) and their originals preceding each one. Pretty awesome to listen to them back to back and see what styles each artist went with when covering them. Some are dead on (like the Deadsy cover of Tom Sawyer), and others almost aren't recognizable.

[Iain]

Metallica - The Prince

Foo Fighters - Down in the Park (orig. Gary Numan)

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (overplayed song, but good cover)

AC/DC - Baby Please Don't Go

[RickSloan]

Goldfinger - Rio
Reel Big Fish - Boss DJ

boss dj live is awesome everytime

[RickSloan]

take on me- Reel Big Fish (A-HA)

damnit you got there first

kiss me deadly by reel big fish is a close second on my list tho!

[Jimmy Lewis]

Disco Biscits. They cover tons of shit, skynard, led zepp, pink floyd, etc.

[lennon]

The Doors cover of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's "Alabama Song".

[HiTheNameIsBJ]

I hate diana krall with a passion, but that song is really good.

[Massive Lee]

Diana Krall's cover of the Beatles' "And I love her"
Nicolette Carlson's cover of Neil Young's "Lotta Love"

[matt]

Goldfinger - Rio
Reel Big Fish - Boss DJ

[91 318is]

Oh man, I love Metallica's cover of turn the page, whiskey in the jar, die die die my darling. I also like Seether's cover of careless whisper.

[StereoInstaller1]

Snoop covering Slick Rick's "Lodi Dodi" on Doggystyle

Wasn't it Snoop that covered Dana Danes "Cinderfella"?

[lennon]

Snoop covering Slick Rick's "Lodi Dodi" on Doggystyle

[CreamE30]

take on me- Reel Big Fish (A-HA)