Yeah, but this is a cover of a Lovin’ Spoonful tune.

Lol, it’s the greatest cover of all time. So ubiquitous, most people don’t even know it’s a cover, including the author of this piece.

Stipe wasn’t fond of the song even when they recorded it originally. That’s why Mike Mills sings lead on the song. It definitely feels like a Mike & Bill song. 

A bunch of others I thought of have already been listed in the comments, so I’ll throw in a personal favorite of mine with No Doubt’s cover of It’s My Life.

I do think Pearl Jam’s cover of Love Reign O’er Me is a bit better, if only because we’ve rarely hear Eddie Vedder really cut loose and scream in a song. It’s fantastic.

Glad to see Devo on this list. They took that song completely apart, shook it up and reassembled it. It’s one of the most inventive covers I’ve ever heard that both sounds a bit like the original and at the same time, nothing at all like it.

I’d replace Bad Wolves with Chris Cornell’s cover of Nothing Compares 2 U.

Any popular song that feels like the definitive version of the song should appear on this list. Case in point:

Don’t hide your light, AVC. Some of us still remember AV Undercover:

Wow nothing from Nirvana Unplugged in NY. Where did you Sleep Last Night or Man Who Sold the World seem like obviously choices.

My girls love the Cramps as well: and as a huge Big Star fan I boringly remind them that Alex Chilton produced them as well

Try this on…

I don’t think I understand how I Will Always Love You is only 23.

Can’t believe this one didn’t make the list:

Another great cover (that many don’t realize is a cover), “Istanbul Not Constantinople” by They Might Be Giants (cover of The 4 Lads).

Should probably be on the list there...

But that’s the best kind of correct!

Especially with the circumstantial evidence (alcohol breath) and a potential flight risk with not being a US citizen (?). nevermind this was a case involving a fatality, a warrant should have issued that night and blood samples taken for alcohol content.

Crashed on 9/30 and left the hospital on 10/6.

I know that stretch of road well (112th Ave NE northbound from Bellevue towards 520/Kirkland) and that was an extremely poor road choice for an already extremely dumb decision. If she had made it through that intersection (which is the 520 freeway entrance to the left) then she would have likely crashed (possibly…