Ever wanted to hear Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself” as a Christmas song? Or Nirvana’s “Come as you are” as swing? No? Of course you haven’t. But someone did it anyway:
My favorite is the Oktoberfest version of Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”:
Everything’s better with bluegrass
Jumpin’ Jack Flash, where the lead singer sounds eerily like Weird Al
Wanna suck the funk right out of a song? Have a suburban Baptist choir perform it.
The Hot Rocks Polka-Weird Al
Polkas on 45 queued up to Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Upbeat lounge version of Radiohead’s “Creep”:
Another rock classic as bluegrass: (AC/DC - Thunderstruck):
Polka version of “Purple Haze”:
This has been posted many times before:
“Straight Outta Compton” - Nina Gordon
Remember the gag on The Simpsons when Bart slipped Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida (by I. Ron Butterfly) into the hymnals? Thank heaven no one would ever do that seriously.
Also from the “white people doing ironic soft rock covers of Rap and Hip-Hop” category:
Clip from Amazon Women on the Moon:
Blacks without soul.
I’m fond of this album:
Though I suppose I would have hated it whenm I was 20.
For some people, the Dickies’ version of “Nights In White Satin” would ruin it forever.
I think it’s a vast improvement on the original.
How about an undesirable performance which led to the popular version being recorded? The first recording of “Twist and Shout” has a surf vibe!
Bert Berns, who wrote the song with Phil Medley, was so dissatisfied with this version that he produced the Isley Brothers’ cover.
In 2009, I created a post about a 1965 sunshine pop-style cover of Harvey Danger’s “Flagpole Sitta.”
It comes complete with an accompanying music video full of 1960s-type stuff.
How about “Louie, Louie,” that raucous party anthem with allegedly dirty lyrics?
“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Hayseed Dixie:
“Thunderstruck” on flamethrowing bagpipes:
“One Toke Over the Line”, champagne style:
That’s not ruined in the least, it’s a “modern spiritual”.
At least there’s a connection: the bagpipes are AFAIK the only instrument other than guitars, bass and drums ever used on a AC/DC recording:
