Covers that are better than the original
The Overtones - Only Girl In The World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiqtT9VlseA
The original was by Rihanna
Fields of Gold from Sting
but
Eva Cassidy cover is fantastic, i've got her vinyl album Songbirds yesterday, it sounds wonderfully on my RP3!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2idiNgegpXY
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GxDP0h0b6CU
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6n18tZjzOJI
And many more by them but I'm bored of copying n pasting on the nexus
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eQgqisUJu3M
Best version of Because The Night? http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KOOmaBbqYBk
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YBDb5lyg0H4 In the sun by michael stipe. This should be the version with just him but i couldnt listen to it on the nexus. If its him and anyone else, its one of the five inferior versions.
And i second gnr's sftd. And add since u been gone by a day to remember, and since i dont have you by gnr also. Oh and second gnr l&ld.
Ooh, ooh these -http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=StklzBlq990
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TDbchnRvVRY
And this by dylan then bad religion -http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2z_XYS1qHmk
The Overtones - Beggin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeBzl9CZMK0
The original way by Frankie Valli
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQgmyQFFQjo
It's a close call but I prefer the Overtones version.
My favourite breakbeat act Hybrid recently released a cover of 'Enjoy the Silence'. Its a very close run thing! I love the Depeche Mode original, but this is an excellent cover. I love a cover when the new artist moves the track in to a different genre and puts a very distinctive stamp on it. This is very much a Hybrid track
3:30 to 4:30 is absolutely exquisite on the Hybrid cover, but I think overall the vocal is not good enough for the quality of music. Overall I would say Depeche Mode retain the crown, but if it was down to that 1 minute section Hybrid would win 
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