During their gig at Earl's Court Exhibition Centre over the weekend, Arcade Fire included a rambunctious cover of The Smiths' B-side, London (as featured on the over-side to 1987's Shoplifters of the World Unite, and included on the Louder Than Bombs collection).  Arcade Fire are no strangers to great cover versions; they've had a bash at New Order's Age of Consent, and at their earlier Liverpool date they performed The Cutter with Echo & The Bunnymen's Ian McCulloch.  They're also not the first to take on The Smiths. Just last month Miley Cyrus covered There is a Light That Never Goes Out at a gig in Belfast. Here are some more covers of songs by Morrissey, Marr and co. Any others to add? Let us know in the thread below.  One of the most accomplished Smiths covers there is, Jeff Buckley completely makes this album track from The Queen is Dead his own, lending it an even more heartbreaking air than the love-worn Morrissey could manage. The guitar intro is beautiful, and Buckley's voice is perfectly suited to the melancholy melody.  There's nothing better than a truly original cover that deviates significantly from the original but still works; it proves the true quality of the song's composition.  Twin Shadow aka George Lewis, Jr. teamed up with Friends' Samantha Urbanisynthy to produce a synth-y, drum machine-heavy cover as part of his UNDER THE CVRS series for Rookie Mag, and it is a perfect example. It's also accompanied by a dramatic, creepy video.  In 2007, as part of a Radiohead webcast broadcast from their basement, the band performed this understated cover. Thom Yorke does a good job of pretending to be Mancunian, and the guitars and drums are spot on. They also covered Joy Division's/New Order's Ceremony in the same webcast.  If there was ever an example of a band fully stamping their own identity on somebody else's song, it would be this version of I Started Something I Couldn't Finish by Bow Wow Wow. The band's signature drums and riffs make it sound like a Bow Wow Wow original, speeding it up and turning it up to 11. Excellent cover.  This lo-fi, grungy take on This Charming Man was featured on DCfC's early demo, You Can Play These Songs with Chords. It's basically the most unpolished version and sounds like it was recorded in a garage, but it's all the more fun for that. Although a lot of Smiths fans aren't too keen on the fact they altered the lyrics.  Released as the lead single for Mark Ronson's second solo album Version, which proved to be his breakthrough, this cover was renamed as Stop Me, and had vocals from Daniel Merriweather.  The song had horns added, strings introduced and a funk drum pattern. It divided opinion, but thisisfakeDIY rated it five stars, calling it a "sweeping, orchestral pop song with horns to boot." The track also mixed in lyrics from The Supremes' You Keep Me Hangin' On.  Everything But the Girl have made a reputation for great cover versions, (they released a Covers EP), and here they produce a lovely take on Back to the Old House. One of the more obscure Smiths tracks, the song was originally the B-side to What Difference Does It Make? and was included on Hatful of Hollow.  Everything But the Girl have made a reputation for great cover versions, (they released a Covers EP), and here they produce a lovely take on Back to the Old House. One of the more obscure Smiths tracks, the song was originally the B-side to What Difference Does It Make? and was included on Hatful of Hollow.
Arcade Fire have covered The Smiths' London at their Earl's Court gig,  but who has produced the most impressive cover version of a Smiths song?