Really Bizarre Cover Songs

[Richland123]

Man, I LOVE me some Dread Zeppelin! Heartbreaker Hotel is a classic.

Like this?

 

[SidNitzerglobin]

Cake does this a lot, probably the best example for me is their War Pigs cover:
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This pair probably applies too (?):
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This one is pretty great IMO, but goes pretty far afield to the point where I dunno if it's completely a cover or just "inspired by" any more:
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Kind of going the opposite direction of taking a sorta bizarre original & making it more traditional (but pretty good & more listenable) direction:
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Apologies if I got any dupes of already mentioned ones in there.

 

[SidNitzerglobin]

Dunno if these are necessarily bizarre enough, but they wind up seeming somewhat out left field (& I really like them) in the selection of songs for the band to cover:

 

[Wood and Wire]

I don't think anyone has mentioned Sinatra, as interpreted by Babe the blue OX :

 

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[SidNitzerglobin]

Fairly faithful maybe, but this one gets pretty out there & awesome to me:

 

[squarepeg]

I wouldn't say this is bizarre, but it's certainly different:

 

[squarepeg]

OK. This is bizarre:

 

[Bob_Ross]

I wouldn't say this is bizarre, but it's certainly different:

I don't have any recordings handy, but circa 1978 my high school band used to cover the theme song from "The Flintstones" but done as smarmy/schmaltzy lounge-jazz treacle with a new set of lyrics I wrote describing Fred as a functional alcoholic who beat his kids & dog.

 

[Bob_Ross]

Not necessarily bizarre so much as unexpected: Henry Kaiser and Fred Frith's cover of Skip James' "Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues"

 

[Bob_Ross]

 

[abarson]

Ondatrópica - I Ron Man

 

[RayWithFlats]

I don't have any recordings handy, but circa 1978 my high school band used to cover the theme song from "The Flintstones" but done as smarmy/schmaltzy lounge-jazz treacle with a new set of lyrics I wrote describing Fred as a functional alcoholic who beat his kids & dog.

Flintstones, you say?



My dad had this album on cassette back in the day, I had never heard of the whole New Orleans brass band scene, I thought they were just a bunch of crazy dudes who did TV themes. I’m from Yorkshire where brass bands are very different.

 

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[Billyzoom]

We all know this one, I personally prefer it to the original.

I knew someone would beat me to it, but I agree. Weird and awesome. I also prefer it to the original.

 

[Michedelic]

I knew someone would beat me to it, but I agree. Weird and awesome. I also prefer it to the original.

Then they did it to themselves, with even stranger results...

 

[LostJohnny]

Ran across this at random yesterday...a power metal band covering
Donna Summer?

 

[Richland123]

Burton Cummings did an unusual, lounge cover of the Bachman-Turner Overdrive song "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" on his solo album in 1976.

 

[Wood and Wire]

Burton Cummings did an unusual, lounge cover of the Bachman-Turner Overdrive song "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" on his solo album in 1976.

An off-Broadway musical comedy, about a slacker and a transvestite.

 

[Michedelic]

An off-Broadway musical comedy, about a slacker and a transvestite.