Most unusual cover versions

[NogbadTheBad]

I like this version of Black Sabbath's Fairies Wear Boots by miRthkon that's on their new album and they played at RIO



http://mirthkon.bandcamp.com/track/fairies-wear-boots

[Adrian]

From one of Les Claypool's side projects, the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade. Live Frogs Set 2 is a performance of the entire Animals album.

I think anything from Claypool/Primus qualifies as unusual, and they've done lots of off-the-wall covers. Primus has covered everyone from Peter Gabriel to the Residents to Metallica. Live Frogs Set 1 includes "Thela Hun Ginjeet" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond."

[jake]

This guy did a complete re-make of the Velvet Underground's second album White Light White Heat. Available for free - along with most of his other stuff - at his blog
http://ergophizmiz.blogspot.com/2009...ays-aphex.html

[gregory]

[gregory]

[davis]

Those Sab covers =

[TheH]

Goblins Proffondo Rosso by Three Monks

[gryphs also]

[No Pride]

A couple of covers of Peter Gabriel tunes:

[No Pride]

Dirty Loops severely messes with Adele's "Rolling in the Deep:"

[davis]

[zravkapt]

[Oreb]

One of my favourites:



One of the worst things I've ever heard in my fucking life:

[iguana]

[Rarebird]

One of the worst things I've ever heard in my fucking life:

Far better than the original.

[TheH]

[TheH]

[Jay G]

Thanks for the Oak Ridge Boys cover I really dug it. Here are a couple of my favorite Sabbath covers. I have this entire rare CD and it is amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV4KkzJF_1g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8thUNP3vV-I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqrC3TvcADM

[TheH]

A realy good cover of Kate Bush by Faore Islands godess Eivør

[mogrooves]

Keith Tippett - "Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening"
Deep Purple - "Hush"; "Kentucky Woman"; "River Deep, Mountain High"
Julie Driscoll - "This Wheel's On Fire"
Aynsley Dunbar - "Willie The Pimp"
Juicy Lucy - "Willie The Pimp"; "Mr. Skin"; "Who Do You Love"
The Move - "The Last Thing On My Mind"; "Fields Of People"
Robert Wyatt - "I'm A Believer"; "Song For Che"
Beggar's Opera - "MacArthur Park"
Isaac Hayes - "By The Time I Get To Phoenix"; "Walk On By"
Wilson Pickett - "Fire And Water"; "Sugar Sugar"
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - "Help, I'm A Rock"
Blues Magoos - "I Can Hear the Grass Grow"
Stackridge - "Hold Me Tight"
Gryphon - "Mother Nature's Son"

[Rogue Elephant]

Michael Hedges had great unusual cover songs that were usually re inventions of the originals such as:

All along the watchtower - Hendrix version
Emminance front - The Who
Buffalo Stance - Neena Cherry
She drives me crazy - Fine young Cannabals
Like a rolling stone - Dylan
Lucky star - Madonna
I don't live today - Hendrix
Gimmie shelter - The Stones
and freebird as read by spock to captain kirk (really)

all on acoustic guitar and voice, simply amazing.

[Adrian]

A medieval tribute to Black Sabbath, with original lyrics translated into Latin ...

[Trane]

I kind of like this version better then GG's... and not because ofthe two cute chicks in the band.

[trurl]

A medieval tribute to Black Sabbath, with original lyrics translated into Latin ...

This was almost the greatest thing in history but it was marred by their failure to include "Oh Lord Yeah!"

[PeterG]

I think the "most unusual" in the thread title is redundant and/or unnecessary. As many of these covers are not that unusual at all. And a cover should really be that band's interpretation of the song so will be unsusual when comparing it to the orignal version anyway.