Last Friday Night (TGIF)

So the cover version of Katy Perry's Last Friday Night (TGIF) by Alex Goot lacks Corey Feldman and Debbie Gibson. But on the plus side it also lacks Rebecca Black and Kenny G. Also it's really good.

Everywhere

I was driving home the other day and I saw a billboard that read "Get VD." It was of course a billboard for the television show Vampire Diaries. But ... talk about poor word choice.

Not to mention that has nothing to do with this cover of Fleetwood Mac's Everywhere by Vampire Weekend.

Du Hast

Wow. It's not every day you hear a cover of Rammstein. In fact, I've never heard one. And this one by Viva Vox Choir is acapella. Just wow. To quote one youtube commenter "This is the greatest thing ever made. I'm going to make babies to this song and name them all after members of this choir."

Never Tear Us Apart

True this cover lacks the dripping sexuality of the original INXS version, but COM'ON! It's Me First and The Gimmie Gimmie who in my book can do no wrong. 

You Oughta Know

The year was 1995. My first memory of hearing a song and knowing it was a cover and thinking it was totally smothered in awesome sauce. Here's 1000 Mona Lisas covering the song that founded the genre of music known as "Angry Cooter Music", You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette

TubThumping

For a brief ... very, very brief time, Chumbawumba was the shiznit. We all though that TubThumping was a drinking song for the ages. How very, very wrong we were. They release a second album that they encouraged their fans to not purchase, but instead to steal. Which not only came off as pretentious, but also turned out to be a poor business model.

Thanks to the Onion's A.V. club, and They Might Be Giants, all the magic has been shoved back into the song. It almost makes me remember why America fell in love with the song in the first place ... almost.

They Might Be Giants covers Chumbawamba

Common People

Are you sure you want to listen to a cover of common people /  you want to hear Shatner, common people sing / you want to cover Pulp's common people

Some people give Shatner shit for his terrible singing, but I for one think this song is the bomb, and not just because of the Ben Folds musical arrangements.

This Land Is Your Land

If you're like me, you had to sing this song at summer camp so many times as a child, you have no idea it was ever a song that got played on the radio, let alone a protest song. Originally a Woody Guthrie song, here's Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings taking a folk song straight into the heart of the motown sound.

Grenade

Some day Alex Goot is going to be big. Then you can thank me. Until then enjoy this Bruno Mars cover.

I Drove All Night [Deep Cover]

Originally recorded by Roy Orbison, I Drove All Night was a hit for Cyndi Lauper. Most people fail to realize this, which is why it counts as a Deep Cover. I think both versions are much sexier than Celine Dion's though.

Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?

Remember when chanting monks were all the rage? Yeah, there's a reason that fad ended quickly, and that reason is Rod Stewart covers.

Stairway to Heaven

I once had a friend who said that the only way Led Zepplin could be any better was if they had enormous boobs. He smoked a lot of pot. I mean like ... a lot of pot. But anyway some times even the most random of dreams come true. So with that in mind, Hello Dolly!

Sexual Healing

Ever stop and wonder how many kids were conceived to Marvin Gaye's voice? I'm guessing much much more than to the sound of Neil Finn, former lead singer of Crowded House. And that's not saying this cover of Sexual Healing is bad, because it's not. It's just not drop your pants sexy.

Milkshake

My cover song brings all the boys to the blog, and they're like GoodNight Nurse better than Kelis, Damn right

I Don't Like Mondays

Want a catchy tune about a school shooting? Then how about this BoomTown Rats cover by Tori Amos?

You Might Think

From the soundtrack to the upcoming Cars 2 soundtrack, here's Weezer covering the Cars. See how clever Pixar was with picking songs for the soundtrack? Which really shouldn't be any surprise since Cars was the worst movie Pixar has ever made. It's like someone decided to reenact Doc Hollywood with Matchbox cars and then got someone drunk to buy the movie rights.

Wicked Game

H.I.M. covering Chris Issak. I call this music to fuck a stranger too.

Gimmie Shelter

Stole this one frome Gizmodo :

"This [Rolling Stones'] Gimmie Shelter cover was made by Playing for Change—the amazing people who put together the tear-jerking cover of Stand By Me back in 2009.

Like Stand By Me and the rest of that original album, Gimme Shelter was recorded by unknown artists in a virtual worldwide street studio all around the world. It all starts with the base percussion, which is recorded first and sets the rhythm to it all, played by Greg Ellis in Hollywood. Then, the track flies all over the world, where other artists use it to play their own parts of the song.

There's Roberto Luti in Italy on steel guitar, Washboard Chaz in New Orleans adding more percussion and then Roselyn Williams fires up her amazing voice to sign Jaggers' lyrics from Kingston, Jamaica. From there, it just keeps getting better and better. At the end of the process, those parts get remixed in a central studio to make the cover you are listening to now.

Go learn more about Playing For Change's new album and how you can help their cause here."

Stripped

Depeche Mode's Stripped, on title alone it sounds promising, but in actuality is a pretty terrible song to erotically remove your clothing too. It's hard to dance too, and that 80's synth is kinda distracting. Rammstein's cover of the song is much much better for the previously mentioned activity. Yeah, I can totally see some hot German goth type chick with a spiked collar hanging by her ankles from the pole while ... sorry. I got distracted.