# Cover version changes genre of original **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 5, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116 "2008-09-05T02:52:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/21 "2008-09-05T17:49:46Z")
For subgenres, The Beach Boys took “Chapel of Love” from Motown to Surf. I actually prefer their version. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/22 "2008-09-05T19:09:25Z")
Boston ska band Bim Skala Bim did a ska version of Pink Floyd’s “Brain Damage” (“The lunatic is on the grass…”) I think you can hear it here: [BiB Records - (Bones)](http://www.bimska.com/bibrecords/bands/bsb/bones.html) ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/23 "2008-09-05T19:13:14Z")
> [@mlerose](#): > > Richard Cheese did a whole album of 90s era alternative music (the album is called Lounge Against the Machine) in lounge music style. My favorites are his covers of NIN’s “Closer” (with added Sesame Street theme song riff) and Nirvana’s “Rape Me” (starting with “This one goes out to the ladies!”) More than one album - he’s also released “Apertif For Destruction”, “I’d Like A Virgin”, and “Tuxicity”. All of which, sadly, I own. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/24 "2008-09-05T19:18:11Z")
New Grass Revival did a bluegrass version of Marvin Gaye’s \*Ain’t That Peculiar. \* It worked. ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/25 "2008-09-05T19:22:16Z")
Dar Williams covers “Comfortably Numb” and turns it into a folky sounding song. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/26 "2008-09-05T19:23:04Z")
Any of Senor Coconut’s [Kraftwerk covers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Baile_Alem%C3%A1n). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/27 "2008-09-05T19:56:55Z")
19,752 covers of “Memory” that sing it like a dirge. It’s suppose to be a reflective song. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/28 "2008-09-05T20:07:56Z")
Joe Piscopo’s homage(?) to Frank Sinatra on the medley, “[I Love Rock 'n Roll](http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/joe_piscopo/i_love_rock_n_roll___the_first_rehearsal/)” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/29 "2008-09-05T20:15:29Z")
Eva Cassidy’s “Time After Time.” Very not a 70’s pop song. ---
**Author:** ![unspun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b9bd4f/32.png) [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/30 "2008-09-05T21:29:22Z")
I love rock n roll - Britney Spears (rock to rubbish) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/31 "2008-09-05T21:34:58Z")
Alanis Morrissette - “My Humps” (rap to slow ballad) Celldweller - “Tragedy” (Bee Gees disco to industrial/EBM) ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/32 "2008-09-05T23:05:23Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > Boston ska band Bim Skala Bim did a ska version of Pink Floyd’s “Brain Damage” (“The lunatic is on the grass…”) > I think you can hear it here: [BiB Records - (Bones)](http://www.bimska.com/bibrecords/bands/bsb/bones.html) Thanks for the reminder, Quercus. They also did an outstanding cover of **The Who** ’s _Shakin’ All Over_. ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/33 "2008-09-06T03:08:35Z")
Reel Big Fish - Hungry Like the Wolf ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/34 "2008-09-06T13:59:48Z")
Jimi Hendrix took the National Anthem electric at Woodstock. Blue Cheer went acid rock on “[Summertime Blues](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summertime_Blues#Blue_Cheer.27s_version_.28Original.29)” And who could ever forget Donna Summer’s disco turn on “[MacArthur Park](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song)#Donna_Summer_recording)” ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/35 "2008-09-06T18:38:18Z")
“I Will Survive” by Cake–I don’t know what genre you would call it, but it isn’t disco. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/36 "2008-09-06T19:38:59Z")
I had no idea that the sweet, country-folkish song Alison Krauss sang, “Baby, Now That I’ve Found You” was originally a soul song with horns. Or maybe not–it seems The Foundations also recorded it, but I’ve never heard that version. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/37 "2008-09-07T22:44:36Z")
There is a collaborative band called Nouvelle Vague that quite specifically does genre shifts of 80s music. For example, the swing version of “Dancing with Myself” used in [this YouTube thing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CexNz0chSCk&feature=related) and goofy samba version, or bossa nova of other songs by Echo and the Bunnymen, the Clash, Lords of the New Church, Depeche Mode, etc. They are best known for [this version of “Just can’t Get Enough”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbR_u5oMq1s) by Depeche Mode which was used in a car commercial. We actually really like their CDs they are really fun. I particularly like their version of Bauhaus’s “Bela Legosi’s Dead”. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/38 "2008-09-07T22:55:00Z")
Ray Charles cover of [Ring of Fire](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhGZdSkX6IM). From country to fucking awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/39 "2008-09-08T00:12:32Z")
I’m a fan of Grey DeLisle’s country version of [Bohemian Rhapsody](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kXXTe6M1PE)! ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/40 "2008-09-08T00:18:50Z")
Well there’s everything Richard Cheese has ever done(eg. “Down with the sickness” in Dawn of the Dead), but I’m not sure if he should count since changing songs to lounge music is his entire gimmick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116.md?page=3)