# Most Unusual Song Covers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303 "2004-11-17T17:55:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/1 "2004-11-17T17:55:30Z")
Here’s my list. _Sympathy For The Devil_ - Laibach _Paint it Black_ - The Residents _Gin and Juice_ - The Gourds (country version!) _Daydream Believer_ - Shonen Knife _Holy Diver_ - Pat Boone ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/2 "2004-11-17T18:01:24Z")
Just about anything by [Dread Zeppelin](http://www.dreadzeppelin.com/) counts as unusual. On the off chance you haven’t heard they’re a Led Zeppelin tribute band. Who only play reggae. The lead singer is an Elvis impersonator. ---
**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/3 "2004-11-17T18:13:51Z")
[Saturday Night Hay Fever](http://www.skippingdiscs.com/releases_hayfever.htm) – An album devoted exclusively to bluegrass covers of disco songs. I have it. I love it. Skipping Discs also has an album dedicated to female artists covering Bowie’s songs. The album is called [Spiders from Venus](http://www.skippingdiscs.com/releases_spiders.htm). Sounds interesting, but I’m not a big enough Bowie fan to buy it. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/4 "2004-11-17T18:15:54Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > _Gin and Juice_ - The Gourds (country version!) I’ll see that and raise you a _Gin and Juice_ punk cover by Pennywise. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/5 "2004-11-17T18:16:59Z")
_Comfortably Numb_ - Scissor Sisters I know I’ve heard the original before, but just don’t remember it that well. And I know that some people won’t like it - but I love it! Susan ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/6 "2004-11-17T18:30:21Z")
I’ve been a big fan of [Rebuild The Wall](http://www.lutherwright.com/thewall.php) by Luther Wright And The Wrongs for a while now. It’s a country/Bluegrass version of Pink Floyd’s the Wall. What’s weird about it is how well some of the songs work. thwartme ---
**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 17, 2004, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/7 "2004-11-17T18:42:58Z")
Lol Coxhill – _I Am the Walrus_ – hands down the most unusual cover ever made. Chanted by three schoolkids with Coxhill playing random notes on the piano. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/8 "2004-11-17T18:43:24Z")
Madman Across the Water–Sandra Bernhard I wish I could remember what show she was on when she sang it. It was wonderfully strange. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/9 "2004-11-17T19:18:48Z")
John Lennon’s Imagine re-done by A Perfect Circle. It’s like a darker shade of Imagine. ---
**Author:** ![vd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b19c9b/32.png) [@vd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vd)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/10 "2004-11-17T19:26:12Z")
_Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door_ done with a reggae arrangement by **Dolly Parton** with **Ladysmith Black Mambazo**. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/11 "2004-11-17T19:27:45Z")
“I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” - Devo Hayseed Dixie does bluegrass versions of AC/DC songs. ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/12 "2004-11-17T19:31:37Z")
Tori Amos’s cover of _Smells Like Teen Spirit_ has gotta be up there. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/13 "2004-11-17T19:42:48Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > Here’s my list. > > _Sympathy For The Devil_ - Laibach Don’t forget the entire Let it Be album (sans Let it Be of course) and Life is Life in which Laibach turned what is possibly the worst song in the world into…what could possibly be the best song in the world. All by making it as serious as it could possibly be. ---
**Author:** ![swannguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@swannguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swannguy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/14 "2004-11-17T19:46:58Z")
I’d have to go with both albums by Kiki&Herb…here’s a sample of some of their covers/covercompilations; 1. Frosty the Snowman 2. Exit Music for a Film 3. Who’s Child is This?: What Child is This?/Deep Inside/Crucify \*featuring Debbie Harry 4. Fox in the Snow/Holiday: \*featuring the Erie Institutional Choir 5. People Die: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer/Smells Like Teen Spirit/Suicide is Painless 6. Lilybelle/Blasphemous Rumours 7. The Big Time 8. Running Up That Hill 9. Those Were the Days: \*featuring Michael Cavadias, Debbie Harry, Isaac Mizrahi, Molly Ringwald, and Rufus Wainwright And I second “Comfortably Numb” by Scissor Sisters ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/15 "2004-11-17T19:53:34Z")
The Beatles _'Til There Was You_ (from the Music Man) Waylon Jennings _Macarthur Park_ Herbie Hancock’s disco _Stairway to Heaven_ ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/16 "2004-11-17T20:30:38Z")
Dynamite Hack’s version of “Boyz-N-The-Hood”. Man, I love their version. Imagine a couple of white dudes singing gangsta rap set to a mellow acoustic guitar folk-rock beat. It’s nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/17 "2004-11-17T20:36:42Z")
The Bobs are an a cappella quartet and they’ve done quite a few covers. _Purple Haze_, _Psycho Killer_, _Particle Man_ and _White Room_ are some of the stranger ones. But the best was about a year ago when they had a special concert in Worcester, Massachusetts to perform… _Rhapsody in Blue_ for four voices and piano. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/18 "2004-11-17T20:45:39Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > Just about anything by [Dread Zeppelin](http://www.dreadzeppelin.com/) counts as unusual. On the off chance you haven’t heard they’re a Led Zeppelin tribute band. Who only play reggae. The lead singer is an Elvis impersonator. I saw them in person a few years ago. I laughed my ass off. What a great show to watch. I see I’ve been beaten to the punch on Hayseed Dixie. Dolly Parton did a cover of Collective Soul’s “Shine” that, while not the weirdest, certainly surprised me. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/19 "2004-11-17T20:45:51Z")
Lyle Lovett did a cover of _Stand By Your Man_. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/20 "2004-11-17T20:55:16Z")
Shane McGowan - _My Way_: Ol’ Blue Eyes meets Ol’ Brown Teeth. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303.md?page=2)