Nothin' On You + Hey Soul Sister

Is it a cover? Is it a mash-up? Back when I was a kid we just called them medleys but these kids today don't do nothing like we did them when I was a kid.

Here's Sam Tsui and Ahmir covering/mashing-up/medlying BoB's Nothing on You and Train's Hey Soul Sister. And it's freaking amazing!

Head Like A Hole

There are a few things I'd like to avoid in my life. One of them is pissing off Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor. Apparently this cover, did exactly that though. At least he thought better about starting an actual feud with Devo because that feud would have been more bizarre than that one Marshall Mathers had with a puppet.

Anyway from the SuperCop soundtrack, here's Head Like A Hole, as covered by Devo.

Complicated

Rockabilly covering bubble gum punk? Sure why the hell not. Dick Brave and the Backbeats covering Avril.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Holy ... Shatner! Can you believe that Kirk would cop to never having heard Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody before covering for his latest album. Shatner's weird in that his music was so bad it became kitsch, then it became so kitsch it became good, and then it just started to go kitsch again. If that makes sense.

Firestarter

What the hell ever happened to Prodigy? I mean they guy with the weird hair cut was angry and danced in the sewers and then kinda disappeared. However they are slightly remembered by at least one band, Jimmy Eat World with a slow dreamy cover of Firestarter.

Love Will Tear Us Apart

Joy Division is one of those great bands that only musical snobs seem to know about. I mean most people know the group as their later incantation New Order. I'm not saying that to be insulting but they just fall into that category, along with the Pixies, Nick Cave, Elliot Smith and Wang Chung.

Here's the band named after Milhouse's super alter-ego, Fall Out Boy, covering Joy Division's most famous song, "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

Dynamite

Here's another guy I randomly stumbled across in my never ending search for awesome covers. He's name is Steve Acho. He's from Detroit. He plays piano. That's all I know ... But he does a heck of a lot of covers. And they're really nifty.

Here he is covering Talio Cruz's "Dynamite." Listen to it, it's that one annoying song you hear all the time but have no idea what it's called, except not so annoying when Steve Acho sings it.

Once Bitten, Twice Shy [Deep Cover]

In my line of work (and by work, I mean sporadic hobby of blogging about covers) there's simply nothing more embarrassing than having someone go "Do you know who did the original of this?" and not even being aware it was a cover. Mortifying!

Despite my embarrassment, here's a cover made famous by Great White. The original by Ian Hunter. Never heard of him? He also wrote the song "Cleveland Rocks" made famous by the Drew Carey Show. Yes, that's his claim to fame, and I'm not sure he actually claims it to be honest with you. I mean obviously he wasn't talking about the local sports teams. BaZing!