Johnny Cash - Hurt
 
[tube]http://youtu.be/FywSzjRq0e4[/tube]
 

Sleepwalk by Brian Setzer 
Green Manalishi and Diamonds and Rust by Judas Priest
You Really Got me by Van Halen
Astronomy Dominé by Voivod
Practically every cover recorded by Marilyn Manson

Cars - Fear Factory

Clearly, Subdivisions is better than this . . . but just for the heck of it, please consider early '80's pretentious new wave avant garde art rock
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FyTfLAlASU
 
and
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anjT71N4PGM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

REM's version of Leonard Cohen's "First We Take Manhatten" has always been a favourite of mine:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9PrGQAE8Mo
 
Funny thing about Leonard Cohen. He was a fantastic song writer, but for some reason I always preferred cover versions of his songs compared to him performing them himself.
 

 
 

Hard to say a favorite, but I do very much like Panic Room's version of B-i-tches Crystal. Unfortunately I can't find any media to link just the EP on the bands website
 
Despite being a big Panic room fan I was not sure i wanted to hear this at first, but the they really did something different with it (as is required for a good cover). Jon Edwards jazz tinged Rhodes and Ann-Marie Helder's vocals come together and make it something special.

Little Wing by Derek and the Dominoes may be my favorite cover, although I didn't know it was a cover when I first listened to Layla. I had never heard the Hendrix original.