Heartland

For me it has to go to The Fall for Lost in Music by The Pointer Sisters. Hearing Mark E singing "feel so alive", always raises the odd eyebrow or two. But it works.

I guess a man's got to know his limitations.

" I quit my nine to five-aaaah".

Rammstein doing Depeche Modes "Stripped" - very funny and very odd - as English is not their first language

Sisters - Jolene
Leather Nun - Gimme Gimme Gimme
Bernard Manning - Heaven knows..(or whichever it was)
Wedding Present - Not Unusual
Frank Sidebottom - Hit The North (f**ki' hilarious)

Steve303 wrote: Leather Nun - Gimme Gimme Gimme

Yes, yes, yes!
Me and Rian are with you in this
Of, course, also the following ones:

Sisters - Gimme Shelter
Sisters - Jolene
Sisters - Confide In Me
Laibach - Life Is Life
Laibach - all the album "Let It Be" (Beatles' covers)
Alien Sex Fiend - Satisfaction
Siouxsie - Passenger
Balanescu Quartet - all their Kraftwerk covers on the album "Possessed"

and many others I'll recall some minutes later

Actually I didn't mean bizarre but good covers...

pikkrong wrote:Actually I didn't mean bizarre but good covers...

Either/Or. Let's not be pikky

A good cover is Depeche Modes Policy of Truth by Dishwalla. Very different but just as good!

chaos engine - kids in america
veljanov - alice
veljanov - jolene
the cure - faith healer
the cure - foxy lady
the cure - don't believe a word
zodiac mindwarp - born to be wild
robin black and the IRS - hellraiser
HIM - wicked game
That Guitarist/the m*****n - wicked game
the m*****n - never let me down
goteki - final countdown
nightwish & tilo wolff - phantom of the opera
the misfits - monster mash
samsas traum - alice

siouxsie and the banshees- hall of mirrors

autechture- weinisennese (or however you spell it)/ im gluck

sisters- jolene

Sisters - Body Electric (slow) - as played on Exxile tour.
Apoptygma Berzerk - Fade To Black
REM - Wicked Game

and millions more...

Dave

Dave Whelan wrote:Sisters - Body Electric (slow) - as played on Exxile tour.

Actually I don't think it's called covers when you play your own songs.

I like Tori Amos's version of "Raining Blood", btw.

Armageddon Dildos - Everyday Is Like Sunday.

Cat Powers - Satisfaction (she doesn't sing the chorus)

Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas

Mugabe,

actually they cover a great many of their own songs these days, with much less success than Body Electric. Roll with it dude.

Dave

einsturzende neubauten:morning dew

jesus and mary chain:who do you love

sisters:jolene/emma

nick cave:hey joe/in the ghetto

morrisey/siouxsie:interlude

this mortal coil:strength of strings

Lulu - 'The Man Who Sold The World'

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds cover of Black Betty

The Rhombus cover of '24 Hours From Tulsa' (Gene Pitney).

The Langley Schools Music Project - Space Oddity.

Oooooh major spoooooooky. Like nothing you've ever heard before.

d00mw0lf wrote:the m*****n - never let me down

Is that the D Mode song?

Nick Cave doing Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart is fantastic
also:John Cale and suzanne vega doing - so long marianne (must be the best cover, ever! )
the model by rammstein is hilarious!

The Sisters Of Mercy - Gimme, gimme, gimme
Polvo - Mexican radio
The Pogues - Darklands (Live 88, Pogues covers Jamc)
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Ghost of a smile (Jamc covers Pogues)
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Who do you love ( )

randdebiel² wrote:Nick Cave doing Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart is fantastic

Laibach - The Final Countdown
Laibach - One Vision

Steve303 wrote:Frank Sidebottom - Hit The North (f**ki' hilarious)

And I thought I was the only one to remember dear young Frankie.

Emma is certainly my favourite unusual Sisters cover. Totally blew me away when I saw them.

And then there's Rolf Harris' Stairway To Heaven.

I'll stop now.

The Revolting Cocks - D'ya think I'm Sexy

video too!