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I was just listening to The Meat Puppets' bizarre remake of "A White Sportcoat and a Pink Carnation." What was that song from? The 1940s? I think I saw it performed on The Lawrence Welk Show.

In the 90s a local radio station frequently played Faith No More's live performance of The Commodore's "Easy."

[i] Easy like Sunday morning. Aaaaah aaaah aaaaah AAAAAAAAAAh.[/i]


Any other completely unusual remakes that you can think of?

I always thought Devo's remake of The Stones "Satisfaction" was pretty unusual but then again what isn't by Devo.

Sonic Youth - Superstar (Carpenters)
Lemonheads - Luka (Suzanne Vega)
Type O Negative - Possession (Sarah McLachlan)
Dillinger Escape Plan w/ Mike Patton - Like I Love You (J. Timberlake)
MXPX - Barbie Girl (Aqua)
Save Ferris - Come On Eileen (Dexy's

Faith No More also does a rather great cover version of the Bee Gees I Started A Joke

[quote][i]Originally posted by Grunch[/i]
<br>Faith No More also does a rather great cover version of the Bee Gees I Started A Joke
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Oingo Boingo "You Really Got Me" (The Kinks)
The Tubes "I Saw Her Standing There" (The Beatles)

Yellow Magic Orchestra do a bizarre remake of "Day Tripper."

Then there are the Dickies who have punked up "Nights in White Satin," "Yesterday," and other 60's ballad classics.

OMD slowed down and made a gloomy cover of Chris Montez's "The More I Se

The Slits cover of "I Heard It Thru the Grapevine" was fairly bizarre.

Abigal's full-out Euro-disco version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

Splodgenessabounds - Two Little Boys (Rolf Harris)
Anal Cunt - Staying Alive (Bee Gees)

This subject cannot go w/o mentioning the following covers
The Flying Lizards- 'Money' (That's What I want) - Originally by Barrett Strong then The Beatles
The Residents- 'This Is a Man's Man's Man's World' - Originally by James Brown
The Residents- 'H

WOLFSHEIM covering MICKEY and SYLVIA's 50's hit "Love is strange".

<a href="http://www.inthe80s.com/covers/index.shtml" target="blank">Here's</a> an index of 80's tunes that have been covered.
(some neat[:)] some pretty scary[:0])

A few odd/quirky covers that I can think of:

ISM's cover of "I Think I Love You"
Nina Hagen's cover of "I'm A Believer"
Fuzzbox/Dr and the Medics/Nina Hagen's covers of "Spirit in the Sky"
Holly Beth Vincent's cover of "For What it's Worth"
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The oddest I can think of, and NNW, is that Einsterzende Neubaten AND Nazareth covered Grateful Dead's "Morning Dew". Actually, quite a few artists have done this song, but those 2 would be the weirdest, IMO.