These are mine - any comments or contributions?
Spare Snare - Independent Women. I loved Spare Snare and this was the first jangly indie band does R+B cover I'd heard.
Th' Faith Healers - S.O.S. It rocks. It's on the Peel Sessions CD.
REM doing Pylon's Superman - much better than the original. Their cover of Wire's There's Something Strange Going On Tonight (can't remember the title) really works with their twitchy opacity of the time.
Despite being slightly screechy, I adore Joan Baez's version of Hard Rain.
Faith No More's Easy, Pale Fountains, We Have All The Time In The World.
Altered Images doing Jeepster?
Wedding Present's Come Up And See Me
Tindersticks covered an early Manics track on a split 10" but I can't remember which track. On the other side, the Manics did the theme from M*A*S*H - both brilliant.
Frente's version of New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle is heartbreaking.
The Boo Radleys' cover of True Faith (Boo Faith) is noisepop genius.
Rheinallt H. Rowlands did a synthpop Welsh language cover of New Dawn Fades which has to be heard to be believed. It's called Gwawr Newydd yn Cilio and it's brilliant.
Much as I love Thompson's Waltzing's for Dreamers, June Tabor does a lovely version.
Damon and Naomi deconstruct While My Guitar Gently Weeps quite spookily and in the same melancholic vein, Low's cover of I Started a Joke is so sad as is Last Night I Dreamed That Somebody Loved Me. Then you can add Galaxie 500 doing several Smiths tracks, though their best cover is of the Rutles' Cheese and Onions or their version of Ceremony (mmm… even more miserable).
St. Etienne's Only Love Can Break Your Heart works so well because it moves post-hippy melancholy into the Ecstasy generation. Juliana Hatfield's version's OK too.
I know it's really sad, and I hate the original, but The Delgados do a really good Mr Blue Sky. They make up for it with a wet California Uber Alles cover.
The Well-Oiled Sisters, I Walk the Line - lesbian country classic!
Kirsty MacColl - You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby and A New England.
Picture Center's cover of Incense (West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band) reeks of patchouli - it's ace. Mojo Nixon's sarcastic Girlfriend In A Coma always makes me laugh, and The Gourds' bluegrass version of Snoop's Gin'n'Juice is brilliant before you go out for the night.
Pulp - Bad Cover Version?
The Residents did a version of Paint It Black that could stand a listen.
Trespassers William did a cool version of Ride's Vapour Trail.
Didn't either the Sisters of Mercy or someone similar do Gimme Gimme Gimme as part of their live set?
For the Irish - The Stunning's cover of Subterranean Homesick Blues. Fun, though entirely unnecessary.
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The Divine Comedy's cover of No-one Knows is absolutely outstanding, especially Live. Check it out on Spotify.
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