Covers
- A section of the song was covered by "Weird Al" Yankovic on his "Polkas on 45" polka medley.
- Tom Jones with The Cardigans in Jones's 1999 album Reload
- Bonnie Raitt on her live album, Road Tested
- DJ/producer Tiga on his 2006 album, Sexor
- John Legend on his album Live at SOB's
- Vienna Boys' Choir on their 2002 album Vienna Boys' Choir Goes Pop.
- Dave Matthews Band has covered the song during its concert tours, debuting the tune at Louisville Slugger Ballpark on August 1, 2008. They released a version of the song on their live album Live Trax Vol. 15 and played it with Trombone Shorty and Kermit Ruffins at the NFL 2010 Season Opening Kickoff pregame show.
- Heather Luttrell sang this song on Rock Star: INXS
- Toby Rand sang this song on Rock Star Supernova
- The Radiators have been covering the song since 2003, and it has become one of their most frequent and popular covers.
- The Used also covered the song in 2009 that was featured in the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen soundtrack and in the end credits to the True Blood episode, "Burning Down the House"
- Phish covered the song during a concert on August 12, 1998 in Vernon, NY, initially replacing the words in the first refrain of "burning down the house" to "Vernon Downs the house;" a reference to the venue at which they were performing.
- In 2001, bassist Marcus Miller covered the song from his album M².
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Famous quotes containing the word covers:
“What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood. St. Peter’s cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now! What entertainments make every day bright and short for the fine freshman!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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