# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/41 "2008-09-08T00:27:09Z")
Carnival in Coal did [Maniac](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUnHvIDf8nA) as extreme metal and Pantera’s [Fucking Hostile](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYAd2RavmeY) as lounge music. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/42 "2008-09-08T00:59:18Z")
[“Oops, I Did It Again” by a Louis Armstrong impersonator](http://supermasterpiece.com/music/oops.html): Pop to an old-fashioned jazz standard. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/43 "2008-09-08T07:00:30Z")
Johnny Noble Band did an quick upbeat version of a rather pretty and bawdy Hawaiian song called Kaua I Ka Huahua`i or “We Two in the Spray.” It is now known as known as The Hawaiian War Chant. BTW The Hawaiian words to the song “Pearly Shells” refers to the news of thefinding of pearls in Pearl Harbor. ---
**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/44 "2008-09-08T10:04:59Z")
[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXg9KUiy00](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXg9KUiy00) ^ Sid Vicious - My Way. ---
**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 8, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/45 "2008-09-08T15:34:49Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > I’m a fan of Grey DeLisle’s country version of [Bohemian Rhapsody](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kXXTe6M1PE)! Oh, that’s really nice. ---
**Author:** ![drillrod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@drillrod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drillrod)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/46 "2008-09-08T16:24:40Z")
There was that god-awful country cover of Todd Rundgren’s “Life is a Highway” by Rascal Flatts. Dolly Parton also did a cover of Collective Soul’s “Shine”. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/47 "2008-09-08T16:40:26Z")
> [@drillrod](#): > > There was that god-awful country cover of Todd Rundgren’s “Life is a Highway” by Rascal Flatts. Todd Rundgren? Wasn’t that Tom Cochrane from Red Ryder? ---
**Author:** ![drillrod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@drillrod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drillrod)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/48 "2008-09-08T19:29:55Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > Todd Rundgren? Wasn’t that Tom Cochrane from Red Ryder? You’re absolutely right. Thanks. Mind you, I still haven’t changed my opinion of the Rascal Flatts version. ---
**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 8, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/49 "2008-09-08T19:33:08Z")
Tom Paxton’s folk song “Bottle of Wine” became hard rock when the Fireballs did it. ---
**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 8, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/50 "2008-09-08T19:37:05Z")
> [@drillrod](#): > > You’re absolutely right. Thanks. > > Mind you, I still haven’t changed my opinion of the Rascal Flatts version. Rascal Flatts… so _they_ were the ones responsible for that abomination? :: shudder :: It made my teeth hurt. That reminds me Faith Hill’s cover of Janis Joplin’s “Piece of My Heart” will earn her a seat in musical hell too. ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/51 "2008-09-08T19:38:15Z")
Philly based band Marah turns Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia” into an almost upbeat bluegrass tune. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/52 "2008-09-10T03:40:32Z")
Thanks for all the songs. I really appreciate it. I’ve got to admit, Nina Gordon’s version of Straight Outta Compton makes me almost cry. I need to find someplace to download that, as well as Alanis doing My Humps, which is priceless. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/53 "2008-09-10T04:36:51Z")
Thea Gilmore’s folky acoustic “Bad Moon Rising” is delicious. It is on her _Loft Music_ album. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/54 "2008-09-13T03:12:44Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > [“Oops, I Did It Again” by a Louis Armstrong impersonator](http://supermasterpiece.com/music/oops.html): Pop to an old-fashioned jazz standard. Richard Thompson also did a cover of this song. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/55 "2008-09-13T20:46:43Z")
Swedish death metal bands love to do cross-genre covers: In Flames has covered “Everything Counts” by Depeche Mode and “Land of Confusion” by Genesis. Children of Bodom covered “Oops! I Did It Again” Sentenced recorded Iron Maiden’s “The Trooper” (not that big a stretch) and Billy Idol’s “White Wedding” Not quite death metal, but Yngwie Malmsteen has done heavy versions of Kansas’s “Carry On Wayward Son” and ABBA’s “Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)” Johnny Cash totally _owns_ his covers of “Rusty Cage” (Soundgarden) and “Hurt” (Nine Inch Nails). But my favorite right now is a YouTube video of [Opeth “The Drapery Falls”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFhAouysUj4) done as a poetry reading. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/56 "2008-09-13T22:26:35Z")
[Ray Stevens](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRZcQsGQbE0) took the standard ballad _Misty_ into a country tune. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116/57 "2008-09-13T22:48:56Z")
I have an old, scratchy 45 of Dion (of _Runaround Sue_ and _Abraham, Martin & John_ fame) doing _Purple Haze_ as a slow ballad! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-version-changes-genre-of-original/462116.md?page=2)