“Satisfaction” was mentioned already, but Devo has done quite a few covers that fit.
Secret Agent Man
Working in the Coal Mine
Are You Experienced?
Don’t Be Cruel
Morning Dew
Head Like A Hole
I dunno, taking a handful of random songs and making each one of them sound like exactly the same indistinguishable Devo . . . thing . . . brings to mind the quote “people who like this sort of thing will find this to be the sort of thing that they like.”
I’ve always been partial to Caligula’s 90s rock version of Tears of a Clown. The singer is a bit of a lame-ass and does not emote like the original, but I absolutely love the instrumentation and production on the guitars.
U2’s take on “Night and Day”
Sonata Arctica’s version of “Wind Beneath my Wings”
I had some ideas when I started reading the thread. They were pretty much all taken by now. So I give you A Static Lullaby’s “Toxic”
I got a kick out of this one.
I came in to mention A Perfect Circle. I rather like their take on “Imagine.” They didn’t change a word of the song yet managed to change the meaning entirely. Lennon’s original version had a hopeful, anticipating mood while the APC version is dark and depressing.
Lennon was saying “Imagine how great the world will be once we get past all of this BS.”
APC was saying “we’re imagining a world that will never exist.”
You consider this thread a zombie? :dubious: Go back to page 3, and it’s still this calendar year.
Every couple of weeks someone comes along and posts about a song they think reinterpreted the original in a radical and successful way, that tends to inspire a few other posts, and then it goes to sleep for a few days or a couple of weeks, but it’s never really died.
Hey, it was only 7 days since the last post that I brought it back up. That’s not a zombie. Anyways, why re-invent the wheel?
They were addressing me. I called it a zombie when I posted in it about a week before you did. I posted in a thread that had been inactive for 3 months. I did not know that zombie apparently has an official connotation, and does not mean any thread that has been inactive for a little while.
I thought of this song 1st,but by the Hindu Love Gods,Warren Zevon and most of REM.
I haven’t read the entire thread but how about Pat Boone covering Nirvana?
I not sure how I feel about Ofra Haza’s cover of Kashmir
I hate David Bowie, so didn’t even realize at first that it was a cover, but I mucho prefer The Wallflower’s version of Heroes.
I like both Sheryl Crow’s version of 'First Cut (is the Deepest) as well as Rod Stewart’s version (although IIRC there were also some earlier versions? Didn’t Cat Stevens do it originally?)
I heard a rock version of Chapin’s Cat’s in the Cradle a few years back that was absolutely horrible.
How did I forget Holyhell’s version of Phantom of the Opera?
(featuring Eric Adams of Manowar)
for me, Circle Jerks - Golden Showers of Greatest Hits
Sorry to the tech geeks that I don’t know how to put a link to this on here but you have to check out the Richard Cheese cover of Welcome to the Jungle I think he’s great.
Another one I like is Natalie Merchant covering David Bowie s Space Oddity and yet another is the Fugees doing Stand By Me…I love that.
Señor Coconut brings it home
I can’t go back to page 3 when the thread is still on page 2! 
Remember that everyone can change their posts per page on the User CP. Post #401 could be on anything from page 3 to page 81 (you can view anywhere from 5 to 200 posts per page). If you want to guide someone to a particular part of a thread, you need to do it by post number, not page number.
This youtube guy covered the duet “My eyes,” from Dr. Horrible and replaced the vocals with violins. I thought it was kind of neat, but I am after all a shameless Whedonite.
Oh, I guess I’ll include a link to the original too.