Sweet Jane
Remake: Cowboy Junkies
Original: Velvet underground
Might be the best remake ever; took a decent tune and without even knowing how to play their instrument, they turned it into something so sopping with melancholy your CD cries every time you play it

Take me to the River
Remake: Talking Heads
Original: Al Greene
The Reverand is good, really good. But the Talk Heads managed to give it the New Wave something Al Greene’s old R&B just didn’t have. Very rare to see some white guys remake classic R&B better than the original.

Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds
Remake: William Shatner
Original: Beatles
Because its about the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever heard (after Leonard Nemoy’s The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins, complete with late 60s music video).

With a Little Help From My Friends
Remake: Joe Cocker
Original: Beatles
Because you can practically smell the bourbon on his breath, feel every word e grinds out, glory in the delicious 70s-ness of it all. Sit down Ringo.

Twist and Shout
Remake: Beatles
Original: Can’t remember
Because I’ve taken 2 from the Beatles already, and their version makes you wan to dance in the middle of a Chicago parade

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Remake: Propellerheads
Original: Soundtrack, Movie same name
The original was good (played during the ski chase scene), but every time the Propellerheads version comes on i start uncontrollably drinking martini’s, seducing random women I’ve never met before, and shooting at things from the hidden rocket launchers in my Aston Martin. Good thing I don’t listen to this too often.

Mr. Brown
Remake: Styles of Beyond
Original: Bob Marley
Claiming a remake of a Bob Marley tune is better than Bob’s version is asking for trouble, I know. But this is a bit more than just a remake. Good cheesy gansta (so 90s i can’t believe I said it) posing with 40 calibre case of glockoma.