List of notable cover versions, by title:

This page lists songs which are notable covers of well known songs. Only songs that appear on an artists main album or a "greatest hits" or "best of" album should be listed. That means don't list live versions unless it appears on an officially released live album. Also included are albums consisting totally of covers.
Songs are listed alphabetically by song title, with the covering artists listed alphabetically afterwards. Treat band names such as "Dave Matthews Band" and "Jimi Hendrix Experience" as band names and not people names. That extra word at the end of the name makes a difference.
Songs with more than one name are listed in each name group.

Notes

• Order
  • Songs are grouped by song title.
  • If the song is covered by more than one artist, the song should be listed once with each artist who covered it listed alphabetically
  • The original artist should be listed immediately after the song title, in parenthesis [()'s]
  • Parenthesis [()'s] at the beginning of a song title are ignored for sorting purposes, but should be written in the song title

• Most old-school sorting rules apply, with one exception:
  • Case is ignored. ("van Halen" is the same as "Van Halen".)
  • Spaces always precede numbers and letters. ("Is This" precedes "Isn't It".)
  • Ignore punctuation. ("What's That" comes between "Whatever" and "Whattup".)
  • Numbers are treated as if they were spelled out. ("42" comes before "7".)
  • For different songs with the same titles, repeat these guidelines to sort by artist name.

• Wikipedia links
  • Artist links are recommended (since most artist pages exist already).
    • For artist links, check the Wikipedia entry first, since some need to be disambiguated. (For instance, Nirvana should be entered as "[[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]".)
  • Song titles links are not recommended except when a song article already exists or is being created immediately. (The link can always be added later.)
    • Song links should refer to Wikipedia song entries, not pages AbOUT the person named in the song.
    • For linked songs that contain bolded names, use Wiki markup as follows:
      • "[[Bette Davis Eyes|'''Bette Davis''' Eyes]]" produces "Bette Davis Eyes".

A

• Abracadabra (Steve Miller) - Sugar Ray
• Aces High (Iron Maiden) - Children of Bodom
• Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Van Halen) - Minutemen
• Along Comes Mary (Tandyn Almer) - Bloodhound Gang
• All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan) - Dave Matthews Band, Jimi Hendrix Experience, U2
• All By Myself (Eric Carmen) - Babes in Toyland, Celine Dion
• All Apologies (Nirvana) - Sinéad O'Connor, Herbie Hancock
• "All Shook Up" (Elvis Presley) - Billy Joel
• Always On My Mind (Elvis Presley) - Willie Nelson, Pet Shop Boys
• American Pie (Don McLean) - Madonna
• American Woman (The Guess Who) - Butthole Surfers, Lenny Kravitz
• Anarchy in the U.K. (The [...] Pistols) - Megadeth, Mötley Crüe (As Anarchy in the USA)
• Angels (Robbie Williams) - Jessica Simpson
• Another Brick in the Wall Parts 1, 2, 3 (Pink Floyd) - KoЯn, Class Of 99
• Astronomy (Blue Öyster Cult) - Metallica

B

• ...Baby One More Time (Britney Spears) - Bowling For Soup, Travis, Hog Hoggidy Hog, New Found Glory, Richard Cheese
• Back that Azz Up (Juvenile) - A New Found Glory
• Bad Reputation (Joan Jett) - Halfcocked
• Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty) - Foo Fighters
• Balls to the Wall (Accept) - Chimaira
• "Ballroom Blitz" (Sweet) - Tia Carrere
• Barracuda (Heart) - Rasputina
• Bathysphere (Smog) - Cat Power
• Beautiful World (Devo) - Rage Against the Machine
• Behind Blue Eyes (The Who) - Limp Bizkit
• Better off Dead (Bad Religion) - Anathema, Los Mox!
• Bills, Bills, Bills (Destiny's Child) - Jonathan Coulton
• Bird on a Wire (Leonard Cohen) - Johnny Cash
• Bitches Ain't [...] (Dr. Dre) - Ben Folds
• Bizarre Love Triangle (New Order) - Stabbing Westward, Frente!
• Blackbird (The Beatles) - Sarah McLachlan
• Blitzkrieg Bop (Ramones) - Rob Zombie
• Blue Monday (New Order) - Orgy
• Borderline (Madonna) - Showoff
• Born to Be Wild (Steppenwolf) - The Cult, Lizzy Borden, & Slayer
• Boyz-n-the-hood (N.W.A.) - Dynamite Hack
• Breadfan (Budgie) - Metallica
• Brick House (The Commodores) - Rob Zombie featuring Lionel Richie & Trina
• Brother Louie (Hot Chocolate) - Stories
• Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison) - Lagwagon, Reel Big Fish, Busted
• Bullet the Blue Sky (U2) - P.O.D., Richard Cheese, Sepultura
• But Not Tonight (Depeche Mode) - Scott Weiland
• Bye, Bye, Bye (*NSync) - Further Seems Forever

C

• Cactus (The Pixies) - David Bowie
• Cars (Gary Numan) - Fear Factory
• Candy (Mandy Moore) - Slick Shoes
• Candy Says (The Velvet Underground) - Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man
• Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent) - Pantera
• Ceremony (Joy Division) - Xiu Xiu
• Circle of Tyrants (Celtic Frost) - Opeth
• Chop Suey! (System of a Down) - Richard Cheese
• Closer (Nine Inch Nails) - Richard Cheese, Spiralmouth
• Come Out and Play (The Offspring) - Richard Cheese
• Come Together (The Beatles) - AerosmithMichael Jackson
• Common People (Pulp) - William Shatner
• Crazy (Seal) - Alanis Morissette, Mushroomhead
• Crazy (Willie Nelson) - Patsy Cline, Kidney Thieves
• Creep (Radiohead) - Richard Cheese, Scarling.
• Crossroads (Robert Johnson) - Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Crush (Mandy Moore) - Noise Ratchet
• Cum on Feel the Noize (Slade) - Quiet Riot, Oasis

D

• Damage Case (Motörhead) - Metallica
• Dancing Days (Led Zeppelin) - Stone Temple Pilots
• Dancing Queen (ABBA) - P
• Darling Nikki (Prince) - Foo Fighters
• Dead Souls (Joy Division) - Nine Inch Nails
• Dear God (XTC) - Sarah McLachlan
• Desperado (Eagles) - Linda Ronstadt, Johnny Cash, Clint Black
• Detroit Rock City (KISS) - Hammerfall
• Diane (Hüsker Dü) - Therapy?
• Don't Come Around Here No More (Tom Petty) - Fig Dish
• (Don't Fear) The Reaper (Blue Öyster Cult) - HIM
• Down in a Hole (Alice in Chains) - Bronson Arroyo
• Down with the Sickness (Disturbed) - Richard Cheese
• Drift Away (Dobie Gray) - Uncle Kracker
• D.W. Washburn (The Coasters) - The Monkees
• D'yer Mak'er (Led Zeppelin) - Sheryl Crow

E

• Earache My Eye (Cheech and Chong) - KoЯn
• Easy (The Commodores) - Faith No More
• Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles) - Godhead, Thrice
• Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode) - No Use for a Name, Failure (band)
• Enter Sandman (Metallica) - Motörhead, Richard Cheese
• Eruption (Van Halen) - Paul Gilbert
• (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (Bryan Adams) - Brandy
• Everywhere (Michelle Branch) - Yellowcard

F

• Faith (George Michael) - Limp Bizkit
• Fame (David Bowie) - Tommy Lee
• Fast As a Shark (Accept) - Rage
• Fell in Love with a Girl (The White Stripes) - Joss Stone
• Fight for Your Right (The Beastie Boys) - Richard Cheese
• Flight of Icarus (Iron Maiden) - Tierra Santa, Kamelot
• Fly Like an Eagle (Steve Miller Band) - Seal
• Fox on the Run (Sweet) - Girlschool
• Freedom of Choice (Devo) - Psychotica

G

• Get Down Make Love (Queen) - Nine Inch Nails
• Get The Party Started (P!nk) - Stretch Arm Strong
• Gin & Juice (Snoop Dogg) - NOFX
• Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon (Neil Diamond) - Urge Overkill
• Give a Little Bit (Supertramp) - Goo Goo Dolls
• Go West (Village People) - Pet Shop Boys
• Going Back to Cali (LL Cool J) - Sevendust
• Gold Dust Woman (Fleetwood Mac) - Hole
• Gone Daddy Gone (Violent Femmes) - Gnarls Barkley
• Good Bye Blue Sky (Pink Floyd) - System of a Down
• Good Times Roll (The Cars) - Powerman 5000
• Guardians (Helloween) - Rhapsody
• Guerilla Radio (Rage Against the Machine) - Richard Cheese

H

• In the Hall of the Mountain King (Edvard Grieg) - Savatage
• Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) - Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright
• Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles) - The Breeders
• Have A Cigar (Pink Floyd) - Foo Fighters featuring Brian May
• Head Like A Hole (Nine Inch Nails) - Devo, AFI
• Head On (Jesus & Mary Chain) - Pixies
• Head Over Heels (The Go-Gos) - Fig Dish
• Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Ramones) - Rooney
• Heroes (David Bowie) - The Wallflowers
• He's A [...] (Cheap Trick) - Big Black, Silver Ginger 5, and The Wildhearts
• Hey Good Lookin' (Hank Williams) - Johnny Cash, Jimmy Buffett (Featuring Clint Black, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Kenny Chesney, and Toby Keith)
• Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder) - Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Highway to Hell (AC/DC) - Marilyn Manson
• How Soon is Now? (The Smiths) - Love Spit Love, Snake River Conspiracy, t.A.T.u.
• Hurt (Nine Inch Nails) - Johnny Cash

I

• (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones) - Devo, Britney Spears, Otis Redding
• I Go Blind (54-40) - Hootie and the Blowfish
• I Have A Dream (ABBA) - Westlife
• I Love Rock & Roll (Joan Jett) - Britney Spears
• I Melt with You (Modern English) - Mest
• I Put a Spell on You (Screaming Jay Hawkins) - Creedence Clearwater Revival, Marilyn Manson
• I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones) - The Adicts, The Offspring
• I Want Out (Helloween) - Sonata Arctica
• I Want it That Way (Backstreet Boys) - Dynamite Boy, Limbeck
• I Will Follow (U2) - Fear Factory
• I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor) - Cake
• If You Don't Know Me By Now (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) - Simply Red
• If You Leave (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) - Good Charlotte, Nada Surf, The Cure
• I'll Stand By You (The Pretenders) - Girls Aloud
• I'll Be True to You (Yes I Will) (The Association) - The Monkees
• Imagine (John Lennon) - A Perfect Circle
• Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin) - Demons and Wizards
• I'm a Believer (The Monkees) - Smash Mouth
• I'm Like a Bird (Nelly Furtado)- Element 101
• (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone (The Monkees) - Minor Threat, [...] Pistols
• I'm On Fire (Bruce Springsteen) - Johnny Cash
• I'm Real (Jennifer Lopez) - Starting Line
• I'm The Leader Of The Gang (Gary Glitter) - Lemon Jelly featuring Hulk Hogan
• I'm Your Boogieman (KC & The Sunshine Band) - White Zombie
• In A Big Country (Big Country) - The Alarm
• In A Gadda Da Vida (Iron Butterfly) - Blind Guardian, Slayer
• In a Lonely Place (New Order) - Bush
• In My Eyes (Minor Threat) - Rage Against the Machine
• Institutionalized ([...] Tendencies)- Senses Fail
• Iron Man (Black Sabbath) - Cardigans, Marilyn Manson
• Isolation (Joy Division) - Therapy?
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople)(The Four Lads) - (They Might Be Giants)
• It Ain't Me Babe (Bob Dylan) - Johnny Cash, Davy Jones, The Turtles, & June Carter
• It's My Life (Talk Talk) - No Doubt
• I've Been Everywhere (Hank Snow) - Johnny Cash

J

• Jump Into the Fire (Harry Nilsson) - Lavern Baker, LCD Soundsystem
• Just Got Paid (ZZ Top) - Rapeman
• Just Like Heaven (The Cure) - AFI(live), Dinosaur Jnr., Goldfinger, Gatsby's American Dream, Taking Back Sunday(live)

K

• Kiss Me Deadly (Lita Ford) - Nerf Herder
• Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan) - Eric Clapton, Guns N Roses, Avril Lavigne
• Kicks (Paul Revere and the Raiders) - The Monkees
• [...] Me Softly (Roberta Flack) - The Fugees
• King of Pain (The Police) - Alanis Morissette
• Know Your Onion (The Shins) - Of Montreal
• Knowledge (Operation Ivy) - Green Day

L

• Lake of Fire (Meat Puppets) - Nirvana
• Landslide (Fleetwood Mac) - The Dixie Chicks, The Smashing Pumpkins
• Last Christmas (Wham!) - Busted
• Live And Let Die (Paul McCartney & Wings) - Guns N' Roses
• Like a Prayer (Madonna) - Rufio
• Lost in the Supermarket (The Clash) - Ben Folds
• Love Rollercoaster (Ohio Players) - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
• Love Song (The Cure) - Snake River Conspiracy, 311, Jack Off Jill
• Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division) - Fall Out Boy, Jose Gonzales
• Low Rider (War) - Korn
• Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (Beatles) - Elton John

M

• Mad World (Tears for Fears) - Gary Jules, R.E.M., Evergreen Terrace, The Red Paintings
• Mary, Mary (The Monkees) - Run DMC
• Master of Puppets (Metallica) - Trivium
• Memorabilia (Soft Cell) - Nine Inch Nails
• Message of Love (The Pretenders) - Saliva
• Metal (Gary Numan) - Nine Inch Nails
• Metro (Berlin) - System of a Down
• Misty Mountain Hop (Led Zeppelin) - 4 Non Blondes
• Money (Pink Floyd) - Velvet Revolver
• Mony Mony (Tommy James & The Shondells) - Billy Idol
• More Than A Feeling (Boston) - *NSYNC
• Mountain Song (Jane's Addiction) - Sepultura
• My Generation (The Who) - Sweet, Hilary Duff, Green Day
• My Prerogative (Bobby Brown) - Britney Spears

N

• Never Can Say Goodbye (The Jackson 5) - Gloria Gaynor
• No Matter What (Badfinger) - Def Leppard
• No More Mr. Nice Guy (Alice Cooper) - Megadeth
• No Quarter (Led Zeppelin) - Tool
• Nutshell (Alice in Chains) - Adema

O

• Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Mott the Hoople) - Great White
• One (U2) - Johnny Cash
• One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) (Bob Dylan) - The White Stripes
• One Step Beyond (Prince Buster) - Madness
• Only Happy When It Rains (Garbage) - Richard Cheese
• Oops!...I Did It Again (Britney Spears) - Children of Bodom
• Overkill (Motörhead) - Metallica

P

• Painkiller (Judas Priest) - Death, Angra
• "Papa Don't Preach" (Madonna) - Kelly Osbourne
• Paramar (Los Prisioneros) - Los Miserables
• Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode) - Gravity Kills, Johnny Cash, Marilyn Manson
• Physical (You're So) (Adam Ant) - Nine Inch Nails
• Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths) - Muse, Deftones
• Police and Thieves (Junior Murvin) - The Clash
• Pretty on Pink (Psychedelic Furs) - Social Distortion

Q

• Que no Destrocen tu Vida (Los Prisioneros) - La Ley

R

• Raspberry Beret (Prince) - Hindu Love Gods
• Rattlesnakes (Lloyd Cole & The Commotions) - Tori Amos
• Rebel Yell (Billy Idol) - HIM
• Red Hot (Mötley Crüe) - Defleshed
• Relax (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) - Powerman 5000
• Renegades of Funk (Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force) - Rage Against the Machine
• Richard Hung Himself (DI) - Slayer
• Right Here Waiting (Richard Marx) - Monica
• Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash) - Social Distortion
• Rock 'n Roll [...] (Patti Smith) - Marilyn Manson
• Rockin' In The Freeworld (Neil Young) - The Alarm
• Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh) - Ozzy Osbourne & Slaughter
• Rusty Cage (Soundgarden) - Johnny Cash

S

• Sad Songs and Waltzes (Willie Nelson) - Cake
• Sabbath Bloddy Sabbath - (Black Sabbath) - Iron Maiden
• Sabbra Cadabra (Black Sabbath) - Metallica
• School (Nirvana) - Fear Factory
• Send Me an Angel (Real Life) - Thrice
• "Shake, Rattle and Roll" (Big Joe Turner) - Bill Haley & the Comets, Huey Lewis & the News
• She Don't Use Jelly (The Flaming Lips) - Ben Folds Five
• Shout (Tears for Fears) - Disturbed
• Shock the Monkey (Peter Gabriel) - Coal Chamber (feat. Ozzy Osbourne)
• Since I Don't Have You (The Skyliners) - Art Garfunkel, Guns N' Roses, Ronnie Milsap
• Since U Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson) - Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
• Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana) - Tori Amos
• Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson) - Alien Ant Farm
• Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck (Prong) - Grinspoon
• Snowblind (Black Sabbath) - System of a Down
• Some of Shelley's Blues (Michael Nesmith) - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• Somebody's Baby (Jackson Brown) - Phantom Planet
• Sour Times (Portishead) - The Blank Theory
• Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin) - Great White, Dolly Parton, Rolf Harris, Pat Boone, & Heart
• Stone Cold Crazy (Queen) - Metallica
• Stone Dead Forever (Motörhead) - Metallica
• Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A.) - Nina Gordon
• Stranglehold (Ted Nugent) - Tool
• Strength Beyond Strength (Pantera) - Remembering Never
• Suburban Home/I Like Food (The Descendents) - Taking Back Sunday
• [...] Is Painless (Johnny Mandel) - Marilyn Manson, Manic Street Preachers
• Summer of '69 (Bryan Adams) - MxPx
• Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran) - The Who, Rush, Alan Jackson, Olivia Newton-John, Blue Cheer
• Supernaut (Black Sabbath) - 1000 Homo DJs
• Survivor (Destiny's Child) - Knockout, Jill Sobule
• Sweet Child of Mine (Guns 'N Roses) - Sheryl Crow
• Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Eurythmics) - Marilyn Manson
• Sympathy for the Devil (The Rolling Stones) - Guns 'N Roses, Tiamat, Jane's Addiction

T

• Tainted Love (Gloria Jones) - Soft Cell, Coil, Marilyn Manson, The Living End
• Take on Me (a-ha) - MxPx, Reel Big Fish, Cap'n Jazz, Vision Divine
• The Family and the Fishing Net (Peter Gabriel) - Primus
• The Final Countdown (Europe) - Laibach
• The Man Who Sold the World (David Bowie) - Nirvana, Lulu
• The Ghost In You (Psychedelic Furs)- Counting Crows
• The Message (Grandmaster Flash) - Mike Peters
• The Model (Kraftwerk) - Big Black
• The Nile Song (Pink Floyd) - Voivod
• The Nurse Who Loved Me (Failure) - A Perfect Circle
• The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel) - The Dickies, Nevermore
• The Tears of a Clown (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles) - The English Beat
• The Tide Is High (The Paragons) - Blondie, Atomic Kitten
• These Boots Are Made For Walking (Nancy Sinatra) - 7 Seconds, Jessica Simpson
• The Saints Are Coming (The Skids) - Green Day & U2
• The Things We Do For Love (10cc) - Amy Grant
• Things We Say (Gorilla Biscuits) - Defiance, Ohio
• Thoughtless (Korn) - Evanescence
• Tom Sawyer (Rush) - Deadsy, Mindless Self Indulgence
• Too Late Too Late (Motörhead) - Metallica
• Toxic (Britney Spears) - Local H, The Chapin Sisters
• Tuesday's Gone (Lynyrd Skynyrd) - Metallica
• Turn the Page (Bob Seger) - Metallica
• Twist and Shout (The Isley Brothers) - The Beatles

U

• Under my Thumb (The Rolling Stones) - Social Distortion, Los Miserables
• Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie)- The Used, My Chemical Romance

V

• Venus (Shocking Blue) - Bananarama, Don Pablo's Animals
• Venus in Furs (The Velvet Underground) - Dave Navarro, Ladytron
• Video Killed the Radio Star (The Buggles) - The Presidents of the United States of America, Amber Pacific
• Voodoo Chile (Jimi Hendrix) - Stevie Ray Vaughan, G3, Gil Evans

W

• War Pigs (Black Sabbath) - Faith No More, Suck
• We Are Family (Sister Sledge) - Babes in Toyland
• Welcome to the Machine (Pink Floyd) - Shadows Fall
• We're Not Gonna Take It (Twisted Sister) - Bif [...]
• We Will Rock You (Queen) - Warrant
• What the World Needs Now (Burt Bacharach) - Mr. Bungle
• Where Is My Mind? (The Pixies) - Ghoti Hook, Placebo, Weezer
• White Wedding (Billy Idol) - Murderdolls
• Whiskey in the Jar (Thin Lizzy) - Metallica, Pulp, Ernies, Smokie, Belle & Sebastian, Iron Horse
• Wicked Game (Chris Isaak) - HIM
• Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix) - Jamie Cullum
• Wild Honey Pie (The Beatles) - The Pixies
• Wonderwall (Oasis) - Cat Power, Ryan Adams, Mike Flowers
• Working in a Coal Mine (Lee Dorsey) - Devo
• Word Up (Cameo) - Gun, Korn, Melanie Brown

Y

• You Really Got Me (The Kinks) - Van Halen
• You Spin Me 'Round (Like a Record) (Dead Or Alive) - Dope,

Z

Zero (Smashing Pumpkins)- Evanescence

0-9

• 99 Red Balloons (Nena) - 7 Seconds, Blondie, Goldfinger, The Sugarcubes
• 32 Flavors (Ani DiFranco) - Alana Davis

References

• All-Music Guide
• The Covers Project