Nothing better than a good cover (Sinéad O'Connor's version of "Nothing Compares 2 U", or Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower"), nothing worse than a bad one (Rolf Harris's "Stairway to Heaven" - wrong on so many levels!).
vetuste - //To be honest any version of the Beatles' original would be an improvement. //
Congratulations! You have managed to live in a world with access to music like never before, and you have still managed to avoid the Wet Wet Wet version!
Nothing better than a good cover (Sinéad O'Connor's version of "Nothing Compares 2 U", or Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower"), nothing worse than a bad one (Rolf Harris's "Stairway to Heaven" - wrong on so many levels!).
A good cover version should offer something different to the original. Johnny Cash's Hurt is a cracking cover version, Jade Richards above is just someone doing a reasonable job of an Adele song.
OK, tonyav, as I can't think off hand of my favourite cover version (it might even be Hurt above) here is one of favourite covers. The difference for me being that it isn't really a different version. Volume needs to be high!