WTF covers

[Dovecoat]

Inspired by this thread: http://www.blamonet.com/vb/showthread.php?t=129346

Basically just name cover versions of songs that are totally "wtf?"... better yet, if they're somewhere on these internets, post them.

A couple to start...

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Nirvana's original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQR-OsH0RQ
Paul Anka's cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsS811o21-k&NR=1

Ride A White Swan

T. Rex's original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pldzo1Elz0
Jamie West's cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRAg2lIiunI

[Foxing Peculiar]

Nina Gordon - Straight Outta Compton: http://youtube.com/watch?v=HNp9wfeEPZc

[Mary Alice]

the Paul Anka cover and the Nina Gordon one are GREAT. I love them both. The T-Rex one is..well, not great.

[XXX]

wtf doesnt have the equal schmaltzy

[Daysleeper]

Grandmaster Flash - White Lines

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Duran Duran - White Lines
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[SoonIWillDisa?pear]

Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes

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Korn - Another Brick in the Wall

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Korn - Creep

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[marquiSP]

Gross.

[eme]

John Mayer doing Kid A - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBMANXQqbTs

Scissor Sisters doing comfortably Numb - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONr5fl-0liQ

Queens of the Stone Age doing Precious And Grace - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaO3LquBTSk

that last one might not be very wtf.

[SoonIWillDisa?pear]

:mad: John Mayer :badass:

[eme]

really?

taking away "Waiting for the world to change", I thought continuum was pretty good. the cover does sound pretty blah

[Drevpile]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBnEr405nEA [oh] tonite :cry:

[Drevpile]

oh and this :( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSkKrMliTVo

[SoonIWillDisa?pear]

really?

yes, really. i view him as a talented guitar player, but i can't deal with his songwriting. I think he's very overrated.:hate:

[Dovecoat]

That cover of "Straight Outta Compton" by Nina Gordon is amazing. And I think Korn actually did a decent job at "ABITW Pt 1", but parts 2 and 3 were awful. And P!ATD cover of "Tonight Tonight" is horrifying. I remember a few months ago when it came out... ew. And... I don't like John Mayer, either... I like that cover of Kid A, though.

So, more...

Terry Jacks butchered Jacques Brel songs. Such as turning "Ne Me Quitte Pas" (one the most desperate, impassioned, bitter, and heartbreaking songs ever written) into the schmaltz that is "If You Go Away", which lyrically bears no resemblance to Brel's. And, most notably, he turned "Le Moribond" into a schmaltzy and over-sentimental pile of garbage known as "Seasons In the Sun". The video here has an English translation of Brel's actual lyrics... such as saying goodbye/piss off to the dude cheating with his wife, to his priest even though he wasn't perfect, and how he wants people to boogie as he's buried.

Jacques Brel, "Le Moribond": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irxe_YQABqM
Terry Jacks, "Seasons In the Sun": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfm-17pu6SQ

And here, we have and abridged version of Falco's cover of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"... done as a bit of a smokey lounge song. I really love Falco, and I really love this cover (the album version is like 6 minutes long, and has a crescendo of "high heels, deine high heels..."). So... it's a good cover. But definitely very different from the original.

Bob Dylan, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-A8dnG30O8
Falco, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrEaGvnqoSM

Lastly... this one is horrifying. A cover of Amanda Lear's "Follow Me" by some dude who takes it way too seriously and is way too melodramatic for the song...

Amanda Lear, "Follow Me": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O32_fF8Supc
Mathieu Rosaz, "Follow Me": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHuxerZ6mRc

Fin.