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Most obscure cover you've ever done

#126
Me, a guy from Swaziland and one of my regular singers just finished this Rochelle Jordan cover for the singer's 23rd birthday. Some NSFW lyrics.



The original is a few months old. The day it was released, I sent it to the singer saying I want to do a cover. It's not the first song that I've wanted to cover since the day it was released, but the rest are better-known...

 
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pklima said:
I have very mainstream tastes, but I recently recordeded a cover of an ending credits theme from an obscure 80s sci-fi movie. There are three copies of it on Youtube, adding up to less than 4000 total views. That's slightly less than a song I used to play with an originals band which was never recorded or released, but it does have one live video. I covered that one with two more bands later, but it only gets second place. I've also done some obscure Canadian alt-R&B songs by Rochelle Jordan, and some Ugandan dancehall, but those are hugely popular by comparison - we're talking tens of thousands of views.

So, here's the original, very big hair. It's really quite a good song, it was just trapped at the very end of an obscure movie that few people watched all the way through.



And the electronic version I did with a couple of other people.



But I'm sure others have covered much more obscure stuff. So, let's do some deep digging for lost gems. What's the most deeply obscure cover anyone here has played live or recorded?
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pklima said:
I have very mainstream tastes, but I recently recordeded a cover of an ending credits theme from an obscure 80s sci-fi movie. There are three copies of it on Youtube, adding up to less than 4000 total views. That's slightly less than a song I used to play with an originals band which was never recorded or released, but it does have one live video. I covered that one with two more bands later, but it only gets second place. I've also done some obscure Canadian alt-R&B songs by Rochelle Jordan, and some Ugandan dancehall, but those are hugely popular by comparison - we're talking tens of thousands of views.

So, here's the original, very big hair. It's really quite a good song, it was just trapped at the very end of an obscure movie that few people watched all the way through.



And the electronic version I did with a couple of other people.



But I'm sure others have covered much more obscure stuff. So, let's do some deep digging for lost gems. What's the most deeply obscure cover anyone here has played live or recorded?
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Ornette Coleman "Feet Music"
Guitar trio version, a bit under-rehearsed, but we didn't embarrass ourselves.

 
#138
It may depend on your definition of obscure...
Some songs I don' find obscure, others do & the other way around.

But off the top of my head?

I'm the Urban Spaceman by the Bonzo Dog Band
Some lesser known BOC...
 

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