10 Rock Covers That Improved Classic Songs

10. Feeling Good - Muse

Not every band that gets on top of the charts has to be dyed in the wool rock fans. You're going to want to pull from any genre you like as a musician and find some way to make it work in the context of your band. That means more strange sounds, some experimentation, and in the case of Muse, going way back to before rock and roll was even a thing.

Having already shaken off the Radiohead comparisons on most of Origin of Symmetry, Matthew Bellamy tries his hand at singing the jazz standard Feeling Good towards the tail end of the record...with a twist. Since this entire album has been defined by its glitchy space sounds that Muse would become known for, you can tell they're going for an otherworldly vibe from the band setup, as Matt takes to the keyboard before Dom and Chris come storming in with a classic rock style rhythm section.

The highlight of the entire song though has to be the breakdown section on one of the last verses, where Matt gets rids of his usual crooning and performs the rest of the song singing through a megaphone, letting his voice be consumed by static a lot of the time. Whereas the original version of this song was a sleek piece of jazzy pop music, that title almost seems ironic towards the end of the song. If anything, this is the soundtrack to how good it feels to be a part of an alien invasion.