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Unlikely song covers?

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What songs can you think of that were covered by an artist very different from the original?

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The White Stripes' cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene"

NIN's cover of Johnny Cash's "Hurt"

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When the Jonas Brothers decided to cover a Beatles song, I think I cried for an hour.
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voivod doing pink floyd's 'astronomy domine'... great cover!

also coil doing 'tainted love'. totally original cover ha ha! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo3TUtRnZ...
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Slayer's cover of "In-a-gadda-da-vida."

Totally unexpected.
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Ben Gibbard - Girls just wanna have fun, Complicated(avril), I want it that way (back street boys)

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Celine Dion covered Ac/Dc's You shook me all night long. Really Bad to say the least.
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Hurt was by NIN

EDIT: Haha, i agree very unlikely
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Slayer-In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (orig. Iron Butterfly)

Ramones-Surf City (original by Jan & Dean)

Stone Temple Pilots-Dancing Days (orig. Zeppelin)
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Marilyn Manson - Soft Cell's Tainted Love

Chris Cornell - Michael Jackson's Billie Jean

The White Stripes - Blind Willie McTell's Your Southern Can Is Mine

Redline - Cyndi Lauper's Time AfterTime

(a popular song to remake)

and the one that pisses me off to no end

The Jo-hoes - The Beatles Hello Goodbye

grrrrrrr they just suck 'nuff said
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Ooh those are great songs - but even more shocking was the fact the "Hurt" was ORIGINALLY by NIN, and covered by Cash.

I don't want to seem like I'm spamming, but I wrote a blog on my MySpace for cover songs a little while back.

There's the best and worst cover songs.

So here's my list:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseac...

Most shocking of the list, I'm not sure, most of those are pretty different.

Gary Jules made a very sad version of the originally electronic 80s synth pop - "Mad World".

You can call Hillary Duff's "My Generation" 'unlikely', but I would rather use the word horrifying.
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The recent Blackmore's Night cover of the Elvis song 'Can't Help Falling in Love'

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7HhS98P2-2...
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Badland's Heavy Metal Cover of James Taylor's "Fire And Rain"

I'll have a video for You here as soon as it uploads, lol.

And here it is

"Fire And Rain" by Badlands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT4hN_bs0...
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Well The Jonas Brothers did an awful cover of The Beatles hello

and I like Aersomiths cover of Beatles come together
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Duran Duran's cover of Zepplin's Thank you
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Rush-Heart Full Of Soul (Yardbirds)
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tarja turunen- smells like teen spirit. sorry, tarja, i love your voice and all, but you're not kurt.

lacuna coil- stars. dubstar and lacuna coil are nothing alike. but i loved the cover much more than the original (i heard it after the cover)
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