This is a cover of an ABBA song...

Mastodon cover of Stairway to Heaven might be the only song I've ever heard that made me cry the first time I heard it. They recorded it as a tribute to their manager that died of cancer. It's beautiful and truly moving, it is my favorite of all time made by one of my favorite bands.


Social Distortion cover of Alone and Forsaken by Hank Williams is one of my absolute favorites.

You could put several Postmodern Jukebox versions of songs here, but this is by far my favorite:



And Rival Sons killing this one:

Pancho and Lefty is technically a cover, so that would get my vote.

There's room here for the Lonely - YouTube

My two absolute favorites are Sister Hazel's cover of The Cars' "Just What I Needed" (I love the slide guitar playing the synth parts from the original) and Lynyrd Skynyrd's cover of Merle Haggard's "Honky Tonk Nighttime Man" (Steve Gaines and Gary Rossington are absolute beasts on this).

Along with the above Therion cover of the Abba tune, this one really stands out:




Not a super Floyd fan, but Nightwish no doubt did this one proud.

I saw social distortion mentioned above - this is my favorite cover they did - just killing it on Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire

This guy has a lot of really good covers, but this has to be my favorite.

Also, the PMJ version of Creep is one of my all time favorites, as well.