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Just found this on t'interweb - a Japanese/Javanese gamelan orchestra covering a punk classic by Gang Of Four - and making a damn fine job of it too.

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K19jPwpP5XY

 

 

So, JKB, what cover versions can you recommend that are RADICALLY different from their originals?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a version of the original song for those unfamiliar....

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAOAkVfqMAA

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I was the blameless recipient of a Bad Shepherds album last Christmas. Most people think Edmonson & co. should be shot on the basis of what they did to various punk and new wave songs (this one's based on the Clash version of I Fought The Law) and to be honest the evidence is fairly compelling.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKWNitW01x0

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scott herbertson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5hsKXASExk

 

One of my favourite prog rock obscure groups from the 70s - their 'Last Tango' is their masterpiece but this is simply weird - it's a long song so if you want a flavour of what it is like when it gets going sskip forward to 1.40.

 

On X factor they drive me round the twist by saying 'you made that song all your own'.

 

I think Esperanto could justifiably claim that, although most people would probably say they made this worse!

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Gregory House M.D.

Not radically different but one of my favourite covers is Babyshambles- She Loves You.

 

You either love it or hate it though.

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Twin Atlantic doing a version of

Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgLBMLptVrk

 

 

Ah the old scottish classic of using your accent to mask how horrific you are. The proclaimers have been doing that for years!

 

I've tried, I really want to like Twin Atlantic. Alot of my mates with similiar tastes like them. I like scottish bands and I like that genre of music but I can't. they are shit.

 

Its one I can't get my head around.

 

PS that cover was feckin' murder and the original was bad enough.

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can't post a link at work, but Cookie Monster from Sesame Streets' cover of Jay-Zs' "99 Problems But A Bitch Ain't One"

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Pretty much anything by the Langley School Music Project. A teacher in a small Canadian town in the late 70's recorded cover versions of his music class doing cover versions of songs children wouldn't normally be taught.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InYy642NP_s&feature=related

 

Cheers Tazio, I've never heard of this before but I'm listen to the rest, Space Oddity is fantastic too as is all I've heard so far.

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One from the Ukraine

 

 

One from Finland

 

 

And one from 1970's Germany with some excellent funky dancing and a strange bored dog

 

 

Oh and the worst music video ever from Sweden - not a cover version but I thought you'd like it

 

 

GC

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