The 100 Best Cover Songs of All Time

RetroCrush has posted their Top 100 Cover Songs list. They did a great job (though I’m ashamed to admit there’s an awful lot of these I haven’t heard). The highlights are the video links for most of the songs. This must have taken FOREVER to put together. It’s nice to see The Man in Black get so many nods, but the highlight for me is:

#34 “The Man Who Sold The World”
by Nirvana
ORIGINAL ARTIST: David Bowie
Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance of this song is beautiful, and one of the few covers where the original artist is actually acknowledged during the performance of the song. MTV played this about 80 million times in the weeks that followed Cobain’s suicide, and rightfully so ’cause it’s so damn good. Lulu recorded a version of this in 1974, too.