QotD: Better than the original?

What is your favorite cover song?
Question submitted by Ray.

Hunting for an excuse to put the work of Arjen Anthony Lucassen in my blog, I was struck with the most fortunate of QotD's. Star One is probably my favourite of his musical projects, as well, particularly for the track The Eye of Ra, which tells the story of the Stargate movie. I love songs that tell stories, and both David Bowie and Arjen Lucassen are great at doing just that, so the combination of the two is, of course, stellar by my accounts. Thus, Star One's cover of Bowie's Space Oddity is my favourite cover song. It can be found on Star One's first album, Space Metal.

Runner-Up, Richard Cheese's rendition of Chop Suey. Obvious reasons include: "...when angels deserve to ... die, ladies and gentlemen."

Honourable mention goes to Stream of Passion for their "Live in the Real World" covers of Ayreon songs, which, given Star One and Ambeon before them, I have decided cover well.

The tune you will find at the right is not from Stream of Passion, but rather a totally-not-Arjen's-fault club remix of Day 7: Hope from "The Human Equation". I liked it too much not to share.