The Strangest Cover Versions

[Arkless Electronics]

Or was it Rosetta Hightower arkless?

I'll check it out ta.

 

[ssheavy]

 

[Bjork67]

Rosetta's version

 

[guey]

From a complete album of covers by him, how about these:

I played the Superbad one out on NYD, and it went down a storm

 

[Sich]

 

[gassor]

The Osmonds maybe more surreal, but this is more weird. Alltogethernow, "You gotta know how to pony like Bony Maronie, Mashed Potato, do the Alligator"

 

[Joe Hutch]

 

[guey]

There's a strong case to be put for calling that the greatest cover version EVAH!

 

[foxwelljsly]

The Osmonds maybe more surreal, but this is more weird. Alltogethernow, "You gotta know how to pony like Bony Maronie, Mashed Potato, do the Alligator"

Surely their best cover was of Nancy & Lee's 'Boots'?

 

[vince rocker]

Seriously, I really like this version of Summertime - the horns, guitar chops, sax solo, even the vocal. It's just... different.

 

[madmike]

I liked the Rolf Harris version of Stairway to Heaven, and there was a Doors style version on the flip side.

 

[Engels]

I liked the reply on twitter that Donnie & Marie should have done "Showbiz Kids" instead. ("You know they don't give a f- about anybody else...")

 

[booja30]

Anything by Richard Cheese. Radiohead Creep, Sir Mix-a-Lot Baby Got Back, and Jane's Addiction Been Caught Stealing for starters.

How could an album entitled Lounge Against the Machine not be good?

 

[Tarzan]

Am going to nominate a strange song in the first place, covered in an even stranger manner;

13th Floor elevators ' Slip inside this house' and the Primal Scream version.... bit odd.

 

[DavidS]

Got to be William Shatner with Leonard Nimoy 'singing' Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds , in fact the whole album that this appears on.

 

[CHE]

CHE

 

[Stunsworth]

I have a CD of Elvis covers sung in Latin.

 

[Nick_G]

Essential listening in a post-Brexit/Trump UK:

 

[foxwelljsly]

 

[Jason P]

Love this:

And this - not strange, but shows how a singer can transform a song:

And for strange, how about Jackie Leven doing 'Say A Little Prayer'...