Covers Versions that are outrageously creative/inventive.

ISAAC HAYES!!!

 

Of course, I have to mention that Alanis Morissette turned the Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps" into a piano ballad:

 

"Bizarre Love Triangle," perhaps New Order's greatest achievement (in its 12-inch single mix), was re-imagined as a tender acoustic ballad by Frente! in 1994:

 

Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" was covered a cappella by the British group Prelude in 1974. Here's a live version where they corrected the misheard lyric "1917" that appears on the studio recording.



Here's the studio version:
After the Goldrush A Cappella

 

Rebecca Moore's distorted, stretched-out, and viscerally arranged cover of T. Rex's "Telegram Sam" is virtually unrecognizable:

Rebecca Moore, "Telegram Sam"


The whole tribute album, "Great Jewish Music: Marc Bolan" (on Tzadik Records, released in the mid-'90s), is full of weird covers, but this one was the most "out there".

 

This is freakin hilarious, catchy and clever. If rap was more like this I'd actually like the genre.

 

Original version:

 

Perhaps I missed it, but I'm surprised that Cowboy Junkies' version of "Sweet Jane" wasn't mentioned.

 

Since I suspect that the latter is not known to many people reading this, here's the original. Madeon was a teenager when he produced this from his bedroom, a YouTube star who is now world famous.

 

Not their only cover version.

 

Has Bryan Ferry's "Taxi" had a mention?

I only knew of I Put A Spell On You from Creedence's version and All Tomorrow's Parties from The Velvets and nothing else, so found them all really nice....

 

The Pet Shop Boys have been cited here a few times for their covers so what say we flip the script with a cover of one of their own. Then let's flip the script again by having them produce said cover.

 

XTC - All Along the Watchtower

 

Peter Tosh - Johhny B Good

 

Australian group The Zoot with their version of Eleanor Rigby

 

another Australian group Ted Mulry Gang - Darktown Strutters Ball a song from 1917!