A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING: The Onion's AV Club inventories 14 cover versions that are better than the original including Stevie Wonder's cover of the Beatles "We Can Work It Out," Elvis Costello's cover of Nick Lowe's "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, And Understanding?" and Naked Eyes tackling the 60's pop hit "Always Something There To Remind Me." Of course there are hundreds of great ones they missed, both iconic (Aretha's "Respect" and Johnny Cash's "Hurt") and obscure (Aretha's "Let it Be" and Ted Hawkins' "Long As I Can See the Light"). Luckily, The Chicago Tribune's Mark Caro picks up the slack, with a list of great covers of his own and links to USA Today's Whitney Matheson's own list of 20 great covers and conversely Cracked's list of the 20 worst cover songs.