A friend of mine provoked this with a Facebook post yesterday and I tried to come up with a Top 30 of great cover versions. All of these worth investigating. In no particular order.
1. John Cale - Hallelujah
2. Jerry Lee Lewis - Me & Bobby McGee
3. Fats Domino - Lovely Rita
4. Peggy Lee - Spinning Wheel
5. Bobby Womack - California Dreaming
6. Johnny Jones & the King Casuals - Purple Haze
7. Aztec Camera - Jump
8. Jackie Wilson - Light My Fire
9. Johnny Cash - Rusty Cage
10. Patti Smith - Gloria
11. The Associates - Boys Keep Swinging
12. David Bowie - Wild is the Wind
13. Merry Clayton - Gimme Shelter
14. Spanky Wilson - Sunshine of your Love
15. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Carnival is Over
16. Astrud Gilberto - Misty Roses
17. The Clash - Police & Thieves
18. Grace Jones - Private Life (or lots of hers the best cover star of all)
19. Jimmy Little - Cattle & Cane (see clip above)
20. My Bloody Valentine - We Have All the Time in the World
21. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower
22. Tricky - Black Steel
23.Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited
24.St. Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
25.Mark Ronson Featuring Alex Grunwald - Just
26. Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain's Going to Fall-
27. Al Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
28. Magazine - thank you falettinme be mice elf
29. Robert Wyatt - I'm a Believer
30. The Beat - Tears of a Clown
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