Billie Joe Armstrong just released a cover of Wreckless Eric's classic Whole Wide World:
Good stuff!
I prefer the original:
And I also like this cover by The Prissteens better:
That's actually the first version I heard of the song. I heard the original after listening to that Prissteens version over and over again.
(I first heard them on Terre T's show on WFMU, where she said that The Prissteens put the angry in Shangri-Las. Awesome.)
You could go down a whole rabbit hole of covers of this song - The Proclaimers do a good cover, for one, (and one with Eric), and Torres, as did Green Day:
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