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Best cover songs?

What, in your opinion are the best cover songs ever recorded?

My top picks, in no particular order:

Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" (Leonard Cohen)
Dar Williams' "Comfortably Numb" (Pink FLoyd)
Matt Nathanson's "Romeo and Juliet" (Dire Straits)
R.E.M.'s "Dream" (Everly Brothers)
Jimi Hendrix' "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan)
Johnny Cash's "Hurt" (Nine Inch Nails)
The Beatles' "Twist and Shout" (Top Notes)
The Cowboy Junkies' "Sweet Jane" (Lou Reed)
The Sundays' "Wild Horses" (Rolling Stones)
Mindy Smith's "Jolene" (Dolly Parton)
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larryi
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I am not saying these are "better" than originals, but, I like the following:

Be Good Tanyas "Waiting Around to Die" (Townes Van Zandt)
Cowboy Junkies "Thunder Road" (Springsteen)
Shonen Knife "Top of the World" (Richard Carpenter)
Nouvelle Vague "Guns of Brixton" (The Clash)
Sid Vicious "My Way" (Thibault/Anka)
REM "First We Take Manhattan" (Leonard Cohen)
Concrete Blonde "Everybody Knows" (Leonard Cohen)
Nazareth "Love Hurts" (Roy Orbison)
Diana Krall "A Taste of You" (Joni Mitchell)
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