7: Music-3

The other day I was wandering around youtube watching music videos and I stumbled across this: (Warning: F-Bomb)

That's right, it's a Weezer cover of Green Day's immortal "Brain Stew" performed by Rivers with two random people while wearing onesie pajamas. Personally, I think that this is a really good cover. Not necessarily better than the original, mind you, but I think that a good cover doesn't totally HAVE to be better than the original, just different enough to give you another perspective on the song itself.
For example, here's another cover I like of The Beatle's "Eleanor Rigby":

Kinda creepy, check. Slightly sacrilegious, check.
Now, I'm definitely of the opinion that The Beatles was one of the (if not the) most important bands ever to be assembled from a standpoint that their music is awesome, still holds a great deal of sway and influence in the world today and is transcendent in that it seems to have an unsurpassed ability to span generations that I believe music today just doesn't have. But that doesn't mean that the stories they told through their music can't be told from a different perspective. Godhead's cover is extremely different from the original while still holding on to the same form and general mysterious nature of the original. Once again, different, but not necessarily better.
I will say however that there are certain covers that should not have been made. Case in point:

Come on, Plain White T's, I really want to like you guys, but then whenever you lull me into a false sense of security with a decent single you record something like this. Quit screwing with me.