How about a few from the “Inspired or Demented? You Decide” Department:
Lene Lovich: "I Think We're Alone Now (Japanese Version)"
The Temple City Kazoo Orchestra: "Whole Lotta Love"
Rolf Harris: "Stairway to Heaven"Howyadoin,
Covers…
Honeydrippers - “Sea Of Love”
Graham Parker - “Cupid”
Soundgarden(?) - “Time” (old Joe Jackson tune)
RHCP - “Highest Ground”
Semi-cover…
Dread Zeppelin - “Heartbreaker Hotel”
Anti-cover…
James Taylor (ridin’ the horse waaay too long at this point) doing “Light My Fire”… By the end of the song he was just yelping “FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!”… I only wish. I’d love to find this to send it to my enemies as the first aural virus
-Rav
A few I’m fond of;
Juliana Hatfield doing Weezer’s “Say it ain’t so”
Radiohead covering Pink Floyd’s “Wish you were here”
I also saw Live in concert and they ended their set with a rocked up version of John Lennon’s “Imagine”. Very spiffy.
There have been two (at least) good ones of the Beatles’ I Am The Walrus - one performed a number of years ago by Leo Sayer, and more recently by Jim Carrey (yes, THAT Jim Carrey). And while I’m on the subject of Beatles tunes, has anyone else heard Tina Turner’s version of Come Together? I’ve tried and tried, but have had no luck whatsoever in finding the soundtrack to All This And World War II on CD - was released (I’m guessing) sometime in the mid-70’s. I have it in its original 2-LP VINYL version, but my CD player balks when I threaten to stuff those old things in there!
Never The Bride did a passable job with Led Zeppelin’s Going To California.
Page & Plant outdid themselves when they took the caffeine jolt out of Nobody’s Fault But Mine, but since they were half of Led Zeppelin, does that really count as a cover?
1000 Mona Lisas classic cover of Alanis Morrisette’s You Oughta Know
I won’t fill a page, I’m too lazy.