# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/61 "2004-11-18T23:20:49Z")
> [@Nordic](#): > > “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” by Samantha Fox. > > I kid you not. Don’t forget her covers of “I only wanna be with you” and “More More More” ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/62 "2004-11-18T23:31:23Z")
Some of my favorite odd covers: Gin and Juice - Sissy Bar Take the Money and Run - Killdozer Do you Think I’m Sexy - The Revolting Cocks Teenager in Love - Bad Manners Ace of Spades - Balzac (just because of their heavy Korean accents) Cum on Feel the Noize - Bran Van 3000 (acoustic chick with electronic beats) Eye of the Tiger - Camp Kill Yourself Insane in the Brain - The Connells Close to You - Ethyl Meatplow Feel like making love - goldfinger Fat Bottom Girls - Hayseed Dixie Still is Still Moving to Me - Jello Biafra Any of Manic Hispanic’s songs - they do punk “parodies” of classic punk sopngs all with a “mexican” twist. (i’m so bored of the USA becomes I’m so bored with you esse" Black Betty - Nick Cave Go Your Own Way - NOFX Harder than your Husband - The Persuasions My guitar wants to kill your mama - The Persuasions Secret Agent Man - The Plugz Have a Cigar - Primus Making Plans for Nigel - Primus Mama said knock you out - Warlock Pinschers ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/63 "2004-11-19T03:26:42Z")
There’s a series of discs in the “Pickin’ On…” series. It’s a particular artist’s hits done by bluegrass studio musicians. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/64 "2004-11-19T05:22:36Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > “Mr Tambourine Man”, from William Shatner. I urge everyone in this thread to drop everything and find this song. Absolutely the strangest released-to-mainstream son I have ever heard. > > I also love Shonen Knife’s “On Top of the World”, originally from the Carpenters. Shonen Knife has perhaps the worst set of Engrish accents (they’re Japanese) I’ve known, and they’re kinda bad at the whole “singing well” thing, but they play their hearts out and mangle the hell out of pretty much everything they sing. Extremely entertaining. From the same Carpenters tribute album is a fantastic version of “Superstar” by Sonic Youth. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/65 "2004-11-19T06:45:33Z")
I just found an unusual one tonight. The “Garden State” soundtrack has a cover of the Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights”. The original is a great electronica song with a fast driving beat. The cover by Iron and Wine is a soft acoustic version without any drums at all. It’s very weird. ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/66 "2004-11-19T15:32:37Z")
> [@Lisa-go-Blind](#): > > Have you heard Crispin Glover’s version? That. Is. Bizarre. Thanks a lot. :eek: It is going to take me years to overcome the trauma that is caused by that song. His horrifying (not horrifying-bad but horrifying-scared the SHIT out of me) rendition has burned itself into my brain and I am now seriously considering a lobotomy ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/67 "2004-11-19T15:41:25Z")
Rolf Harris has done some interesting cover versions; a much-despised cover of _Stairway To Heaven_, which comes across as tongue-in-cheek, although Rolf claims this is unintentional - he says he had never actually heard the song before covering it and that he only saw it on paper. Rolf:Oooooh… and it makes me wonder… How does it affect you blokes? Backing singers: Oooooh… and it makes us wonder… He also did a sort of folk/skiffle version of _Bohemian Rhapsody_. I like Rolf Harris; not only is he a fantastic, energetic, imaginative entertainer, but also because his cover versions prick the pomposity of people who take the originals waaaay too seriously. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303/68 "2004-11-19T19:30:03Z")
I was listening to Radio Paradise a while back, and they played a kind of cheesy, lounge lizard version of Crazy Train by a group called Fun Lovin’ Criminals. Truly weird. Radio Paradise, for those who might be interested, is a non-commercial, listener supported music streaming site, it makes great background accompaniment for doing things like browsing your favorite message board. [Check 'em out.](http://www.radioparadise.com) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-unusual-song-covers/275303.md?page=3)