Aqui os dejamos una curiosidad, las cien mejores canciones que son versiones de otras originales. Desde clásicos verisionados como Stairway to Heaven o Wicked Game, a míticos versionadores como Jeff Buckley o Johnny Cash. Aquí dejamos la lista completa.
01 “Stairway to Heaven” - Dolly Parton (Led Zeppelin)
02 “Baby Got Back” - Jonathan Coulton (Sir Mix-A-Lot)
03 “Hazy Shade of Winter” - The Bangles (Simon and Garfunkel)
04 “Nothing Compares 2 U” - Sinead O’Connor (Prince)
05 “Showroom Dummies” - Señor Coconut & His Orchestra (Kraftwerk)
06 “Smooth Criminal” - Alien Ant Farm (Michael Jackson)
07 “Personal Jesus” - Johnny Cash (Depeche Mode)
08 “Against All Odds” - The Postal Service (Phil Collins)
09 “Easy (Like Sunday Morning)” - Faith No More (The Commodores)
10 “Tainted Love” - Soft Cell (Gloria Jones)
11 “Tainted Love” - Marilyn Manson (Gloria Jones)
12 “Under Pressure” - My Chemical Romance and the Used (Queen and David Bowie)
13 “Mah Na Mah Na” - Cake (Piero Umiliani)
14 “Wicked Game” - H.I.M. (Chris Isaak)
15 “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” - Muse (The Smiths)
16 “Blue Monday” - Orgy (New Order)
17 “Satisfaction” - Devo (The Rolling Stones)
18 “I Want Candy” - Good Charlotte (The Strangeloves)
19 “How Soon Is Now” - Love Spit Love (The Smiths)
20 “Smells Like Teen Spirit” - Paul Anka (Nirvana)
21 “Walk” - Avenged Sevenfold (Pantera)
22 “Let Down” - Radiodread (Radiohead)
23 “Crazy Train” - Bullet for My Valentine (Ozzy Osbourne)
24 “All Along the Watchtower” - Jimi Hendrix (Bob Dylan)
25 “Helpless” - k.d. lang (Neil Young)
26 “Louie Louie” - The Kingsmen (Richard Berry)
27 “Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)” - The Doors (Weill/Brecht)
28 “Wonderwall” - Ryan Adams (Oasis)
29 “Take Me to the River” - Talking Heads (Al Green)
30 “Walk This Way” - Run DMC (Aerosmith)
31 “Me and Bobby McGee” - Janis Joplin (Kris Kristofferson)
32 “Gloria” - Patti Smith (Van Morrison’s Them)
33 “I Fought the Law” - The Clash (Bobby Fuller Four)
34 “Star-Spangled Banner” - Jimi Hendrix (Francis Scott Key)
35 “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” - Saint Etienne (Neil Young)
36 “Bring Tha Noize” - Anthrax (Public Enemy)
37 “Satisfaction” - Cat Power (Rolling Stones)
38 “You’re No Good” - Linda Ronstadt (Betty Everett)
39 “Another Brick in the Wall Parts 1, 2, 3″ - Korn (Pink Floyd)
40 “Hallelujah” - Jeff Buckley (Leonard Cohen)
41 “My Way” - Sid Vicious (Frank Sinatra)
42 “Always on My Mind” - Pet Shop Boys (Brenda Lee)
43 “Oh, Pretty Woman” - Van Halen (Roy Orbison)
44. “. . . Baby One More Time” - Travis (Britney Spears)
45 “Boys of Summer” - The Ataris (Don Henley)
46 “Eight Miles High” - Roxy Music (The Byrds)
47 “Superstar” - Sonic Youth (The Carpenters)
48 “John the Revelator” - Depeche Mode (Spiritual)
49 “My Favorite Things” - John Coltrane (Mary Martin)
50 “If You Leave” - Nada Surf (OMD)
51 “Everybody’s Talking” - Harry Nilsson (Fred Neil)
52 “Respect” - Aretha Franklin (Otis Redding)
53 “Crazy Mary” - Pearl Jam (Victoria Williams)
54 “Working Class Hero” - Green Day (John Lennon)
55 “Comfortably Numb” - Scissor Sisters (Pink Floyd)
56 “Jolene” - The White Stripes (Dolly Parton)
57 “Darling Nikki” - Foo Fighters (Prince)
58 “Spider-Man” - The Ramones (for 1967 TV cartoon series)
59 “I Will Always Love You” - Whitney Houston (Dolly Parton)
60 “It Was A Very Good Year” - William Shatner (Frank Sinatra)
61 “Sweet Child O’ Mine” - Luna (Guns N’ Roses)
62 “Landslide” - Dixie Chicks (Fleetwood Mac)
63 “King of the Road” - R.E.M. (Roger Miller)
64 “Nobody Does It Better” - Radiohead (Carly Simon)
65. “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding” - Elvis Costello and the Attractions (Nick Lowe)
66 “Stop Your Sobbing” - The Pretenders (The Kinks)
67 “I Shall Be Released” - The Band (Bob Dylan)
68 “Chelsea Hotel” - Lloyd Cole (Leonard Cohen)
69 “Proud Mary” - Ike and Tina Turner (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
70 “Just” - Mark Ronson with Alex Greenwald (Radiohead)
71 “Jimmy Loves MaryAnn” - Josie Cotton (Looking Glass)
72 “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” - Elton John (The Beatles)
73 “Venus” - Bananarama (Shocking Blue)
74 “Jackie Blue” - Smashing Pumpkins (Ozark Mountain Daredevils)
75 “Love Hurts” - Nazareth (The Everly Brothers)
76 “Blinded by the Light” - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (Bruce Springsteen)
77 “Baker Street” - Foo Fighters (Gerry Rafferty)
78 “Ain’t That a Shame” - Cheap Trick (Fats Domino)
79 “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” - Isaac Hayes (Glen Campbell)
80 “Dear Prudence” - Siouxsie and the Banshees (The Beatles)
81 “Twist and Shout” - The Beatles (The Isley Brothers)
82 “Helter Skelter” - U2 (The Beatles)
83 “Imagine” - A Perfect Circle (John Lennon) 84 “Eleanor Rigby” - Thrice (The Beatles)
85 “Live and Let Die” - Guns N’ Roses (Wings)
86 “With a Little Help From My Friends” - Joe Cocker (The Beatles)
87 “Hurt” - Johnny Cash (Nine Inch Nails)
88 “Enjoy the Silence” - Lacuna Coil (Depeche Mode)
89 “I Will Survive” - Cake (Gloria Gaynor)
90 “Rock el Casbah” - Rachid Taha (The Clash)
91 “Sex (I’m A)” - Peaches (Berlin)
92 “Caldonia” - Mos Def (Cab Calloway)
93 “Wasted” - Camper Van Beethoven (Black Flag)
94 “Low Rider” - Drunken Boat (War)
95 “Turn, Turn, Turn” - The Byrds (Pete Seeger)
96 “Don’t Give Up” - Willie Nelson & Sinead O’Connor (Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush)
97 “Glamorous Life” - The Fever (Sheila E.)
98 “Stairway to Heaven” - Rodrigo y Gabriela (Led Zeppelin)
99 “Since U Been Gone” - Ted Leo (Kelly Clarkson)
100 “Star Wars Theme” - Bill Murray (John Williams)
Vía: stereogum
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