Awesome Covers

Willian Lee turns in a spot-on cover version of Dire Straits’ Sultans of Swing during a street performance in São Paulo. Not only is his guitar playing excellent, he gives Mark Knopfler’s vocals a run for their money. Check out his Clapton, Orbison, Isaak, and Bee Gees too.

Musician Brian King Joseph (aka “Brian’s Violin“) delivers a wonderfully different sort of tribute to the King of Pop on his electric violin, with this fantastic and passionate performance of the 1982 classic Human Nature.

Musician Jason Deeh Pitre shares this once in a lifetime moment when Seal jammed with him on Le Place d’Armes in Montreal while he was busking. We’re pretty sure Seal could make millions just singing nutritional facts off of cereal boxes.

One trick pony Insane Cherry’s latest tune is a redo of Joan Osborne’s 1995 hit, featuring his (un)usual menagerie of dogs, cats, goats, and other animals lending both vocals and instrumentation to the track.

The always spectacular Haley Reinhart turns in another fantastic cover along with Postmodern Jukebox, with this orchestral arrangement of Soundgarden’s 1994 grunge hit that starts out as a sultry jazz ballad, and ends with as much fire and energy as the original.

Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs presents another meta cover – this time performing Gorillaz’ 2005 hit in the style of artists ranging from The Prodigy to Sir-Mix-a-Lot to Queen and even Darude. Keep an eye out for guitar cameos from some of our favorite YouTube rockers.

20-year-old alternative artist Julien Baker (Sprained Ankle) performed a cover of one of Death Cab for Cutie’s early hits for The Onion’s AV Club, turning the brooding Photobooth into a sincere ballad.

Costumed as Catwoman, composer Sonya Belousova plays her own wonderful arrangement of Danny Elfman’s classic theme song from Tim Burton’s Batman. As much as we liked the music from The Dark Knight, we always preferred Elfman’s take.

YouTuber syou2at made a cover of Glorious Crown from the rhythm arcade game Maimai Pink using nothing but notification sounds and other audio samples from Windows XP and Windows 10. Download links are on the video’s description.

Guitarist ERock presents his head-banging edition of the earworm that is the opening title music from the 1990’s X-Men animated series. Seriously, we have no idea why they don’t start using this as the theme for the new movies.

A fantastically rich and layered cover version of Radiohead’s recent track Burn The Witch, played on cello and cajón by Break of Reality. Seriously, we’d love to hear Thom Yorke’s vocals combined with these guys performance.

Guitarist Luca Stricagnoli turns in an impeccable fingerstyle acoustic performance of AC/DC’s 1990 hit Thunderstruck. Be sure to check out his rendition of Dick Dale’s surf rock tune Misirlou, and his Guns N’ Roses ain’t too shabby either.

Musician FreddeGredde continues to do what he does best, turning in a collection of classic theme songs on his acoustic guitar – complete with lyrics. The Jaws and Jurassic Park themes are awesome, though we’re pretty sure Rocky’s Gonna Fly Now already has lyrics.

Musician Rob Scallon and his pals turn in a fun performance of Metallica’s Master of Puppets with the lead guitar replaced with banjo. His outfit reminds us of an overall joke we’re pretty sure we heard on Dr. Katz… “Q: What goes with these? A: A banjo and no women.”

After chopping up animal sounds to make a pants-wetttingly funny cover version of Linkin Park’s Numb, YouTuber Insane Cherry created a remake of The Pixies’ classic which literally made us spit our coffee out when one of the Nonono Cats got to singing.

Pianist Maxence Cyrin broke through to the masses with his stirring rendition of Where Is My Mind? But that’s not the only amazing cover version he’s done. Sit back and enjoy some Soundgarden played impeccably on his grand piano. His Daft Punk ain’t too shabby either.