Weird Cover Versions

That whole album is a hoot, in the linear notes Hal Wilner mentions that they thought of getting Public Enemy to do "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf". Wish they had done it.

 

Quite different from the original by Rihanna:

 

There's a well known expert on the song who begs to differ:

 

Soundgarden reveal the Sabbath-y metal band Devo were at heart:

 

Jaime Brockett...cover of Dylan's Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

 

I think Bruce is having a bit fun with the perception that Chris Thompson is singing "douche" instead of "deuce". Also, the line was changed from "cut loose like a deuce" to "revved up like a deuce", so he biffed that.

As Mr. Mann explains,

In America the single did even better, climbing slowly but surely to No.1 despite – or maybe because of – some controversy over the lyrics.

“Suddenly I had the American record label on the phone saying: ‘We can’t get radio stations in the southern bible belt to play the record because everyone thinks you’re singing about a vaginal douche’.”

It was another self-inflicted wound. Once Manfred had learned Springsteen’s original, he hadn’t listened to it. “I find that if you keep referring back you can get over-familiar with it and start to think it’s better than your lousy version,” he says with dry irony. But he hadn’t checked the lyrics, and somehow ‘Cut loose like a deuce’ became ‘Wrapped up like a deuce’. Worse still, that line sounded more like ‘Wrapped up like a douche.’ Manfred blames the azimuth on the tape machine [something to do with the angle of the tape head on the tape], and does a convincing Alan Partridge impression as he wraps his facial muscles around the words ‘deuce’, ‘douche’ and ‘dooce’ – which is what they finally managed to get it back to after more fiddling about with the tape.

Story Behind Song: Blinded By The Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Midnight Special performance

Manfred Mann - Blinded by the Light

 

I'm gonna sound cranky but a lot of stuff posted I've heard before and is just not that weird, or even not weird at all in some cases. I'm disappointed, I thought people would know more of the real weird crap hiding out there! Frogs on a mellotron chirping Cripple Creek weird. Strange clog dancing cleft-palatte girl from the Ozarks belts out I Will Survive weird! I know it's out there somewhere...

 

I don't know about weird but definitely different. I love the entire album!

 

This one's pretty weird, it certainly chafes every Beatle fan I've played it for,

 

Yeah. The Replacements "Cruella De Ville" is a hoot.

 

That was really interesting...and cool as fark!

 

David Bowie's "Let's Dance" by M. Ward (whose music I generally like).

 

Hugh Laurie does Irving Berlin

 

XTC - All along the watchtower

 

Elton John - Give Peace A Chance
Tiny Tim - Stayin Alive
Tiny Tim - Girl

 

You knew this coming:

 

Anne Bisson - With A Little Help From My Friends

It is actually pretty cool how she incorporates snippets of other Beatles songs in her cover of “With A Little Help From My Friends”.

 

It was already there on page 3

 

There used to be a bad habit in germany to do cover-versions of popular hits with german lyrics in the 60's/70`'s.
Those were called "Deutsche Originalaufnahme" and usually sung by kitschy Schlager-interprets, sometimes the lyrics were basically a translation and sometimes completly different in content.
I used to pick up some of these on the flea-markets for a laugh when I was young. Some weird stuff there.

For example, these two...
(*famous for this song: )

 

...they've done a cover-version of "Paranoid" with some nonsense text about the Hound of Baskerville


I mean, seriously? Should this really attract a new base of listeners or what was the point?

 

...or even worse, this chap turning "If the kids are united" into a cheesy anti-alcohol sermon:



I've just put the cringeworthy lyrics into google-translate so you can all enjoy it in full glory

A few weeks ago you still sipped on your beer
and now you are already on a double grain trip.
You lost your job, but you do not see
the blame is on you, on you all alone.

You are afraid of the truth,
Hey, when are you finally going to wake up?
You are afraid of the truth,
Get up and think.

We used to call ourselves friends,
now you're hanging on the bottle and sapping your mind.
But you just scold on others and the system.
Look in the mirror, it's your problem.

And you treat your girl as if she's worthless
until she ran away, horrified and disturbed.
She wants to help you, but you are stubborn.
she holds out her hand, why are you hesitant?

Now do not come with honor and hurt feelings.
you have long flushed your pride into the drain.
Go to her, say you're sorry.
She is your only chance.

You are afraid of the truth,
when do you start to understand?
You are afraid of the truth,
but you can not escape her.

Do not worry, she's with you,
because she loves you and forgives you.
Your fear is over
and in the end you are the winner.

Do not worry, you have friends,
That's why you do not stay alone.
Your fear is over
and in the end you are the winner.