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Certain groups fall into that category, I believe. Groups or singers with a signature sound, don't seem to cover too well...Led Zep, Beatles, Queen, ect. There's quite a few when you think about it.
Couple of Dylan covers, Mr Tambourine Man by the Byrds and All Along the Watchtower by Hendrix were good. On the flipside, I find U2's cover of All Along the Watchtower pretty bad.
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Oh, of course. I enjoy just about any version of All Along the Watchtower. Haven't heard U2's, though. I particularly like DMB's cover of it. So sue me.
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One cover I like of U2s(actually Edge) would be Van Diemen's Land, although I'm not sure if it's considered a cover, it's a traditional poem/song, I believe.
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Ooh, one cover I hate is the one with "paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
Just stop doing it, people! How many freakin' versions of that song do we have to have? Particularly, how many freakin' times do I have to hear it?!
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Oh, I'm with you on that Ken. Back when I worked in retail it seemed that song was always playing on the store Muzak system.
As for the Beatles songs, I particularly like Joe Cocker's version of "A Little Help from My Friends" mainly because of his re-imagining of the song. Completely made it his own and, arguably, better.
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Joe Cocker's version is very good. I like the Sundays version of Wild Horses(Stones), as good or better than the original imo. Linda Ronstadt's version of It's Gonna take a Lot of Love was a good cover of the Neil Young song as was Joan Baez's version of the Band's Night they Drove Old Dixie Down.
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Whaaaat, woodja dooooo, iffah sang, otta tuuhuuune... WHHHHOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH I like that version, too. I was listening to it in high school and my dad commented that Joe Cocker's voice sounded like an organ with broken pipes. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but I don't think he was wrong, either. 
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True! He sure has made it work for him, though!
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I like the Sundays version of Wild Horses(Stones), as good or better than the original imo. Speaking of which, they used it prominently in the "Prom" episode of season 3 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I just watched. I'll have to put in a Sundays album sometime soon.
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John Mayer's Crossroads on the new Battle Studies album is pretty good.
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