I've noticed some covers of songs are just as good as the normal version. Example: "Counting Stars" - One Republic Cover:
Nirvana covering lake of fire by the meat puppets Nirvana covering plateau Korn covering brick in the wall by pink floyd Fall out boy covering beat it by Michael Jackson And there are these awesome covers done by punk groups and the albums are called punk goes pop. Best covers ever!
ANYTHING Pentatonix covers is absolutely phenomenal. Check them out! They're an acappella group and they're super talented :cat
Also Kurt Schneider is really talented. He's the genius behind some really good music covers by Max Schneider, Sam Tsui, etc. My favorites from him are the Maroon 5 medley, Bruno Mars medley, and the cup song.
Yes! This is one of my favourite covers of all time! I actually did prefer this version to the original before I listened to it about 500 times and bought it on iTunes. I like Macy Kate's cover of Radioactive and I bought it on iTunes. Kurt and Sam Tsui are amazing too.