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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"Nothin'" Plant,Krauss
"All Mixed Up"
"Silly Love Songs" both by The Red House Painters
"Cortez The Killer" Built To Spill
"Handle With Care" Jenny Lewis"
"Square Room" Cowboy Junkies
"Dreams" Mollyhatchet
"Rated X" Nico Case
"The Sound Of Silence" Brandi Carlile
"Taste Of Honey" Patricia Barber
Sorry Neko, for the mispelling above

Another great cover of "Sweet Jane" Mott The Hoople