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What is your favorite cover song?
Question submitted by Ray.

Now here is a QOTD I could spend a good while answering. There's quite a few cover songs I really enjoy, often more so than I enjoy the originals.

+ "Dream On" - Andru Donalds  (Original by Aerosmith)
+ "All Out of Love" - Andru Donalds (Original by Air Supply)
+ "Blue Monday" - Orgy (Original by New Order)
+ "Boys of Summer" - The Ataris (Original by Don Henley)
+ "You Raise Me Up" - Josh Groban (Original by Secret Garden)
+ "American Woman" - Lenny Kravitz (Original by The Guess Who)
+ "Ave Maria" - Operatica (Original by Johann Sebastian Bach)
+ "Unchained Melody" - U2 (Original by The Righteous Brothers)
+ "Dreaming" - The Smashing Pumpkins (Original by Blondie)

Actually, the Andru Donalds album [Snowing Under My Skin] which is one of my favorite albums ever, is mostly cover songs. These are really wonderful, amazing, great, fantastic cover songs. You might have never heard of him before, but you'd probably recognize his voice if you've ever listened to any Enigma songs made during or after The Screen Behind the Mirror. This album has been mistaken for and bootlegged as being an Enigma album, but it's technically not. Unfortunately, I've been unable to alter the ID3 tags on my MP3s of it. On the other hand, the album is produced by Michael Cretu (the creator of Enigma) so it might as well be an Enigma album anyway...

Post Edited on August 9th, 2006:  I added a couple of MP3s...  and some more of my favorite covers have been added to the list, too. :)