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I love a good cover - and by "good", I mean it adds something. There's no point in just mimicking what has already been done. So my first offering is from a band that most people have, probably, never heard of: Easy Star All Stars. These guys are 'cover experts'. I don't mean a tribute band. They take classic albums and make reggae versions of them. i.e.:
- Dub Side Of The Moon
- Radiodread (OK Computer)
- Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band
- Easy Star’s Thrillah
What they have done, is musically awesome and always makes me smile. They are brilliant and crazy. It would be impossible to pick a favourite, (my top 10 covers would be mostly their tracks), but to give you a taste, here's one on their gems:
Paranoid Android - YouTube[^]
Replacing the manic guitar solo, with a manic trumpet solo is pure genius - particularly as they have managed to retain the 7/8 time signature bars. Yes, reggae in 7/8.
Hoping these crazy reggae guys make you smile too. 
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In a list like this you still need to have Dread Zeppelin[^].
They have at least three different versions of stairway to heaven
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Haha.  Awesome.
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I totally agree that a cover is not good unless it adds something.
I really like Metallica's cover of Bob Seger's Turn the Page. In fact I think it's better than the original.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I like PMJ (Post-Modern Jukebox), they make jazz versions of modern songs.
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PMJ are pretty good. Many of their covers I prefer to the originals.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That's often depending on their singers. Like Haley Reinhard for example. She can lift many songs to a new level.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Haley is one of my favourites. They have Morgan James who is ok on a couple of songs but you can feel she is straining sometimes or a bit shouty when she is trying to project power - but usually fails and ends up being screechy. Haley is always good along with several others whose names escape me.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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When I think cover, I always think of "All Along the Watchtower", where many people don't know who wrote/sang the original.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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This label maker compares files from a sect 'e warns about! (1, 4, 9, 6)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Pflerd - YouTube[^]
Finally stepped away from the amorphous synthy things for a bit and went rockier. Sort of.
So, if you want to see/hear me play guitar, bass, keyboard, velcro, baby-wipes container, and mouth...
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Interesting...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It is a VERY NICE beginning, but in my opinion it needs to be changed up about the minute or two mark so it isn't as repetitious as it is. My gut says to put in a fast guitar riff or something, and/or a really thumping drum part to stand out. Later, you could slow it down, to give it even more variety. Of course, this is just my opinion. I LOVE the sounds you made! Fantastic!
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Yeah, I went looking for a guitarist to add some flavory solo to it. But Adrian Belew is busy doing other things, so...
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It's still better than any music I've made, so good job for that! 
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Thank you.
Next up...I'll sing. If I don't chicken out. But I have to do it early in the morning while I still have my Barry White voice.
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Ooooh Baby! 
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It belongs to @Richard-Andrew-x64, after all he opened this can of spam...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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And he is their customer, although I suppose it is not a requisite.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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... and caught something on the way down.
Result: an air bubble under the screen protector and a visible - and "feelible" - crack, albeit tiny.
Sod it! I managed to keep the old phone pristine without a screen protector for years and years, then in just six months this gets damaged. 
Since it comes from the manufacturer fitted with a protector, I order a replacement from Amazon: tempered glass with a fitting kit, and it arrived this morning.
Read all the instructions then with trepidation carefully peel off the old protector, and ... no damage at all, it just punched through the protector and missed the screen!
Alignment kit fitted, drop on new protector and we're done - looks perfect again! Phew - I hate damaging things!
My neighbour lived with a crazy-cracked screen for months then replaced his phone - only to have the new one chewed on by his son's dog within a month. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Those glass screen protectors are the best in my opinion.
Like a crash helmet, they are designed to absorb the acceleration by breaking - while a thin plastic screen protector(the equivalent of a medieval helmet) will transfer the kinetic energy through to the device's screen.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 30-Aug-20 12:41pm.
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After breaking the protecting glass three times, I convinced the wife to buy what they call 'wallet case'... Hopefully will hold on...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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