Post-1980 of which there are three great (if not necessarily stone-cold classic) recorded versions

From the other thread:

All My Friends
Rent
Indian Summer
um, The Macarena

I`m trying to think of another good sweet child o`mine besides GNR and Luna.

MsJackson.

Baby one more time.

The Hucklebuck

Yellow.

When U Were Mine

Prince
Mitch Ryder
Cyndi Lauper

Nothing Compares 2 U

The Family
Sinead O'Connor
Prince

When U Were Mine

doesn't the YLT drummer guy do this song as well? (as Dump? I think)

Kiss

Prince
Age of Chance
Tom Jones

Hanging On The Telephone

Nerves
Blondie
Cat Power

Wonderwall

Oasis
Cat Power
Jay-Z

Billie Jean

MJ
Chris Cornell
Shinehead

shit, hanging on the telephone was 70's

and Jay-Z was live only.

There's Mike Flowers' Wonderwall though.

+ Ryan Adams' terrible one

Children's Story

Slick Rick
Tricky
Black Star
+ tons of interpolations
(not that the covers are stone cold classic, just seems like one of the few hip hop songs that gets covered at all)

I mentioned at least three of these on that other thread: "Set It Off," "Axel F," "Macarena" (which I guess you caught.) Maybe others, too.

"Neverending Story"

Limahl
Pearl
Scooter

Apparently there's also an Erasure cover of this, but I haven't heard it.

"Sexual Healing"

Marvin Gaye
Kate Bush
Renee Geyer (this one's dope!)

does anyone else do La-Di-Da-Di besides Slick Rick and Snoop?

The best place to go to answer this question might be Latin music, where it's not uncommon for the same song to get covered by groups in a few different subgenres. I'm positive, for instance, that there were at least three great versions of "Vuela Vuela" back in the mid 90s -- Magneto, La Sonora Dinimata, and some banda group (Rhapsody lists a bunch of those, but none of them ring a bell off hand.) Banda Bahia also did fairly amazing versions of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs' "El Matador" (not sure if anybody else has done that one) and Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" (also covered adequately or better once by some joke-metal band, I believe.)

Also, I'm no kind of American Idol or Nashville Star etc expert, but at least a couple great versions of current songs must have come from those shows. (Like, has anybody ever done "How Do I Live," a hit for both Leann Rimes and Trisha Yearwood? Or less likely, but maybe even something like "Video Killed The Radio Star," which both the Buggles and Bruce Wooley & the Camera Club have excellent versions of? Okay, maybe not that one.)

Weren't there at least three versions of "My Toot Toot" in the mid '80s, too? I know the Rockin Sidney and Jean Knight ones; Rhapsody lists several others with that title (incl Fats Domino, Sleepy Labeef, and Steve Jordan), though I haven't checked to see if they're the same song, or how good they are.

Denise La Salle does a great My Toot Toot, so there's three

I'm On Fire

Bruce Springsteen
Johnny Cash
Electrelane

"Sexual Healing"

Marvin Gaye
Kate Bush
Renee Geyer (this one's dope!)

also hot 8 brass band (there's an edited version on their myspace

i did not know that kate bush recorded it.

Chromatics also did a great version of "I'm On Fire," although some around here might disagree.

Nothing Compares 2 U
The Family
Sinead O'Connor
Prince

Family debatable on “great,” Prince is luke-warm at best

Wonderwall
...
and Jay-Z was live only.

Also not very good, let alone great. Cat Power’s was only on Peel, too.

"Self Control"

Laura Branigan
Raf
Ricky Martin

Is there a third "Sweet Child o' Mine," aside from GnR & Luna? It seems like there must be (& plz don't say Sheryl Crow, b/c her rendition makes me want to stab myself in the eardrums).

I guess the main problem here is that "Macarena", "Dance Little Bird" and that Numa Numa song were all horrible, and far from great... :)