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frenchmaidrobot:
In regards to today's comic about the idea of weird instrumentation/arrangements for songs...

Has anybody listened to Petra Haden's version of The Who Sell Out?

KharBevNor:
No...

But as far as wierd covers:

Blumchen's dance cover of Queen's 'Bicycle Race'
Any of the KMFDM covers, particulary 'These Boots Are Made for Walking' and 'Material Girl'
SikTh's version of Nick Cave's 'Tupelo'
Graveworm's cover of REM's 'Losing My Religion'
Inkubus Sukkubus' reworked covers of Kylie's 'Can't Get you Out of My Head' (Oh, the altered lyrics! The gothic choir chanting the na's!) and Cher's 'Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves'
The Anti-Nowhere Leagues cover of 'The Streets of London' (punking up songs before anyone had even thought of Hot Topic)
Skyclad's covers of Thin Lizzy's 'Emerald', Judas Priests 'Dreamer Deciever', and Venom's 'Prime Evil' (all songs, I must now admit, sorely in need of fiddle in their original incarnations)
Overlord's cover of Girls Aloud's 'Sound of the Underground'
Behemoth's cover of David Bowie's 'Hello Spaceboy'
Amorphis' cover of The Doors/That bloke who originally did it's 'Light my Fire' (Absolutely hilarious, especially stuck as the bonus track on the end of one of the gloomiest doomdeath albums ever put to record)
Tulus' cover of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity'
Therion's cover of Abba's 'Summer Night City' (REALLY fucking brillliant)
Entombed's covers of Bob Dylan's 'The Ballad of Hollis Brown' and the hymn 'Amazing Grace'.
Tiamat's cover of the Rolling Stone's 'Sympathy For the Devil'

And if you like poetry, Both Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadow's and Arcturus' settingd of Edgar Allen Poes 'Alone' (The Innocence of Devils and Alone respectively) are utterly wonderful, as is Behemoth's setting of AC Swinburne's 'Before Aeons Came' and Tiamat's beautiful setting of Alasteir Crowley's 'The Pentagram'.


Probably more when I think on't. I collect odd covers.

Kai:
The Residents did an album of covers of popular sixties songs and FUCKED THEM  UP to an extreme. It ends with Inna Gadda Da Vida, Hey Jude, and Sympathy for the Devil playing AT THE SAME TIME. It't the best cover album ever (Third Reich N Roll, for the curious).

Jeridus:
I once saw a crazy reggae/ska band at a show (forget which show)... and they did a cover of U2's New Year's Day... it was nuts, and totally fucking awesome

also... someone should cover Kaizers Orchestra's "Bak et Halleluja"... so weird... hear it here... http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/war.php

a pack of wolves:
V/A - Dynamite With A Laserbeam - Queen As Heard Through The Meat Grinder of 31G

Bands like Das Oath, Melt-Banana, Glass Candy, Asterisk* etc demolishing Queen songs. Really, really good. And it has Bastard Noise on it. Bastard fucking Noise, doing Lily of the Valley which I've never heard and would almost certainly not recognise if I did. But it rules.

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