# Looking for anachronistic-style song covers! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 10, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571 "2013-11-10T14:21:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/1 "2013-11-10T14:21:27Z")
I’ve been on an odd kick, the last coupla days—looking up anachronistic-styled song covers. That is, songs reworked in a style from an earlier era than they were originally written and performed…though not the other way around, which would be far too common. So far, I’ve scrounged up— •[Call Me Maybe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJwz39Hfk8)—Postmodern Jukebox (Late-era ragtime.) Their [Motown “Sk8r Boi”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkjNpwNcMWI), among others, was also oddly charming. •[We Have All the Time in the World](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKg5WNpe_Hg)—The Puppini Sisters (1940s style) •[Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner](http://www.propergandaonline.com/track-of-the-week-naomi-bedford-roland-the-headless-thompson-gunner/)—Naomi Bedford (Folk/Country). [Shiny](http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Dictionary). Although technically I guess it’s a genre that’s survived enough to still be considered “contemporary,” but what the heck. •[Purple Haze](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGkJ4-JvUiQ)—The Hampton String Quartet (Classical) “Blackbird” and “The Battle of Evermore” were other contending covers from the same group. That’s just what was at the top of my mind, from my own collection or from a cursory search. 'Anyone else have anything to suggest? I’m all ears. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/2 "2013-11-10T14:33:19Z")
[This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WGsMplGxU), especially towards the end. Yes, I know I link to this in every single thread about cover songs, but it’s the best cover of anything ever. A bluegrass version of a [Rolling Stones song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8dfR7vZwC8). And a traditional Irish style rewrite of a[Ricky Martin song.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tioJwESUp5M) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/3 "2013-11-10T14:35:23Z")
[King Crimson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgT3gEKfj_I) à la Lawrence Welk. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/4 "2013-11-10T14:42:14Z")
You already know Postmodern Jukebox, so might I suggest Big Daddy 59? > **[日本丰满多毛XXXX,99久热re在线精品99 6热视频,一起战斗过 卧室 厨房 客厅,交换妻子](http://www.bigdaddy59.com/index.php)** > > 日本丰满多毛XXXX,99久热re在线精品99 6热视频,一起战斗过 卧室 厨房 客厅,交换妻子,欧美免费福利视频,以后就是我的尿壶,啪啪啪啪啪在线观看,美国十大禁片,无码人妻精品视频一区二区三区99 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/5 "2013-11-10T14:43:51Z")
There’s plenty of classical covers of Metallica songs on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/6 "2013-11-10T14:45:28Z")
[Big Daddy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Daddy_(band)) was a band that performed contemporary songs (in the eighties and nineties) in a fifties style. You can see some of their videos [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ikC5ZdHfo&list=PL245DEE6DAE45C95A). eta: Ninja’ed by DrFidelius. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/7 "2013-11-10T14:49:47Z")
[Stairway to Heaven](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfoccRna6I) by the Beatnix. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/8 "2013-11-10T14:55:14Z")
One of my favourites: the folk version of the Rolling Stones’ [Start Me Up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwatig1WKWw) from the “A Mighty Wind” soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/9 "2013-11-10T14:58:17Z")
“[The way it is](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjlfjuUXCUo)” Bruce Hornsby and Ricky Scaggs. (Bluegrass) As an aside, they do a great version of “[Columbus Stockade Blues](http://music.yahoo.com/video/ricky-skaggs-bruce-hornsby-columbus-160000560.html)” ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/10 "2013-11-10T15:43:31Z")
[Get Lucky](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9qhuujsQDE) à la 11 different decades. [Flagpole Sitta](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7cCrgGBQIE) 60s-style. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/11 "2013-11-10T15:51:23Z")
Joshua Rifkin released an entire album of [Baroque-flavored Beatles songs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgABcoRUwUA&list=PLD9D33AE60E3336A5), as did [John Bayless](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgm-nNiimlE). ---
**Author:** ![kirk1168](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kirk1168](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk1168)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/12 "2013-11-10T16:55:21Z")
> [@SiXSwordS](#): > > “[The way it is](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjlfjuUXCUo)” Bruce Hornsby and Ricky Scaggs. (Bluegrass) > > As an aside, they do a great version of “[Columbus Stockade Blues](http://music.yahoo.com/video/ricky-skaggs-bruce-hornsby-columbus-160000560.html)” Thank you. That is absolutely wonderful and I had no idea that they had collaborated. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/13 "2013-11-10T16:58:14Z")
The London Symphony Orchestra recorded **A Classic Case** , an album of Jethro Tull in classical style. Here’s a live version of [“Aqualung”](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QKYSghXorvI&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQKYSghXorvI) with Ian Anderson on flute. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/14 "2013-11-10T17:13:19Z")
Half the videos on [Scott Bradlee](https://www.youtube.com/user/ScottBradleeLovesYa/videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_index=1)’s channel on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/15 "2013-11-10T17:35:07Z")
Latin style version of [Smoke on the Water](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eqR7_Xz-zY) by Senor Coconut. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/16 "2013-11-10T17:37:53Z")
I can’t find a video of the Asylum Street Spankers doing “Closer”, but [here’s the audio](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC_3XRrjVhs). (Lyrics NSFW.) They do a few other covers (“Dance This Mess Around”, “Think About Your Troubles”, etc.), but other than the instrumentation most of them are pretty faithful. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/17 "2013-11-10T18:18:54Z")
Pianist [Richard Grayson](http://www.youtube.com/user/improvelectronic/videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_id=1) does this (when he’s not doing [the opposite](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQOMM372E1Y)). ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/18 "2013-11-10T18:21:29Z")
These are rather interesting interpretations: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2KZjnFZvCNc/hqdefault.jpg "Smells like Teen Spirit - The Ukulele Orchestra") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KZjnFZvCNc) and [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pLgJ7pk0X-s/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC6AKKAgwIABABGHIgOyg0MA8=&rs=AOn4CLDY8cchpU6wMBxYTRPxw3fWSjnekQ "The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgJ7pk0X-s) ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/19 "2013-11-10T18:41:56Z")
the mellow surf band cover of “Boyz in the Hood” by Dynamite Hack is a definite favorite ([the video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeL9gagV_VA) is also hilarious). Jonathan Coulton covers “[Baby Got Back](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCWaN_Tc5wo)” as an indie folk song ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571/20 "2013-11-10T18:45:54Z")
There’s always Weird Al Yankovic’s polka medleys. Not so much anachronistic as just plain silly, the “[Farm Beetles](http://www.danielamos.com/farmbeetle.html)” did several Beatles songs in country/bluegrass style, such as “[Hilter Skilter](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7FJmWdLi60).” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-anachronistic-style-song-covers/673571.md?page=2)