Carnival in Coal did Maniac as extreme metal and Pantera’s Fucking Hostile as lounge music.
“Oops, I Did It Again” by a Louis Armstrong impersonator: Pop to an old-fashioned jazz standard.
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.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXg9KUiy00
^ Sid Vicious - My Way.
Oh, that’s really nice.
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”.
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.
Tom Paxton’s folk song “Bottle of Wine” became hard rock when the Fireballs did it.
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.
Philly based band Marah turns Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia” into an almost upbeat bluegrass tune.
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.
Thea Gilmore’s folky acoustic “Bad Moon Rising” is delicious. It is on her Loft Music album.
Richard Thompson also did a cover of this song.
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” done as a poetry reading.
Ray Stevens took the standard ballad Misty into a country tune.
I have an old, scratchy 45 of Dion (of Runaround Sue and Abraham, Martin & John fame) doing Purple Haze as a slow ballad!