Yesterday, we presented a list of pretty good cover songs. While those songs were great, we’re back with an even BETTER list. So, strap in and prepare to experience an eargasmic treat.

Nine Inch Nails’ Dead Souls

In 1981, Joy Division released a song called Dead Souls in their album, Still. It was written probably around in 1979. Check out that wicked bass line.

In 1994, in The Crow soundtrack, Nine Inch Nails released a cover to Dead Souls. It has a harder edge and the vocal performance was just top notch.

The way it was used in The Crow was incredibly surreal, too, and there is a prevalent argument that the soundtrack can easily make or break a good scene.

Living Colour’s Sunshine of Your Love

Eric Clapton and Cream are arguably some of the greatest musical acts of all time. It’s hard to deny, however, that their songs are timeless classics. They’ve produced many great songs and they’ve spawned even more remakes, revivals and covers. If that isn’t a mark of a true musical genius, we don’t know what is. A cover that stands out quite vividly is Living Colour’s Sunshine of Your Love not because it’s the most widely known Clapton cover because it probably isn’t but because of the unique take on the song.

Here’s Living Colour’s cover.

The cover is as faithful as it would be expected of Living Colour and they take the song to a whole other level of awesome. If you’ll excuse me, I need to wipe my face off the floor because the guitar solo just melted it off.

Deftones’ Jealous Guy

Now that’ve we’ve opened up that can of worms that is the topic of musical geniuses, it’s hard not to mention THE musical genius – John Lennon. John Lennon has written a lot of moving iconic songs that have been covered so many times, some people don’t even realize they were John Lennon originals. The covered song was first released in 1971 and has been covered a staggering 92 times. It is none other than the massively popular Jealous Guy.

As an iTunes exclusive track, Deftones became one of the 92 artists to cover Jealous Guy. How is it? Well, give it a listen and you tell us.

Didn’t expect that, did you? Yeah.

Johnny Cash’s Hurt and Rusty Cage

There is no rule that ever said that younger guys should cover the older guys. It just doesn’t work like that, and look, Johnny Cash took Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden classics, made them his own and moved thousands of people to tears and elation.

Considering that Mr. Cash had already passed away, these songs now stir a barrage of mixed emotions in people. Rest in peace, man in black.