Paul Kelly / AB Original - Dumb things
Bit of rappy bits over Paul Kelly’s original, and featuring the man himself makes for a tops performance

LDRU / Paces feat Guy Sebastian - Keeping Score
Turns out Guy Sebastian is actually a great singer, its just the songs he normally does that suck

I’ll go first: mine is King Stingrays version of Yellow by Coldplay

Not really a full blown cover, but I’m a fan of Illy’s Ausmusic medley which covers Silverchair, Hilltop Hoods, Paul Kelly, Flume. No LaV list is complete without it.

Great for Australia day!

Grinspoon in 2004 doing The Drugs Don’t Work Phil’s voice is one of my few vices in life.

Ooh! Tough question! I’m hyper critical of covers in general. To me if you’re going to to a cover, I want to see something different to the original. And then, it needs to be good.

I love The Herd doing I was only 19 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns82tHhJOr0 
I don’t think I prefer it to Redgum’s version, but it speaks to a new generation about stuff that should never fall out of our consciousness. So I really appreciate it for that alone.

The Wiggles doing Elephant is awesome! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a13WnqsRc5g 
People obviously dismiss them as a gimmick or kids entertainment, but that was so well done. I actually prefer their version to Tame Impala.

But then here comes Tame Impala doing A Girl Like You - and it’s next-level stuff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt5DwYAu1ao
Definitely better than the original, even if it is a similar interpretation of Edwyn Collins.

Aurora doing Teardrop is definately up there - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPTY6l_PX5k
I don’t know her from anything else, which I really should fix as her voice is mesmorising.

It turns out that Sarah Blasko’s Flame Trees wasn’t actually Like a version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cArtp8NSp0g 
Which is a shame! It’s a wonderful cover and would be a contender for better than the original. She has a few Like a Version covers, though! Her rendition of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is wonderful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wR0OgzYreU 
So is her Life On Mars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnZtVY6Lu5U 
Maybe she just does songs of my generation, which is why I love them all.

If I’m allowed to cheat, the best cover of all time goes to John Farnham with Help - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv54giOSRKs 
That’s probably the best cover of any song ever made. I literally grew up on the Beatles, and John totally made the definitive version of this song.

San Cisco - Get Lukcy Probably peak LaV for me.

It’s gotta be the Arctic Monkeys cover of “Feels like we only go backwards”. His voice man. God damn…

https://youtu.be/4RZDFQ3oYbg?si=hVeGRWq87_2ER7xS

DMAs “Life After Love”