Current 93 covering Comus; Nico covering the Doors; Laibach covering Queen, the Rolling Stones, or the Beatles; John Cale covering Elvis; Richard Thompson covering Britney Spears; Area covering Bach; The Butchershop Quartet covering Stravinsky; The Art Bears covering Weill; Townes van Zandt covering trad. tunes; U.S. Maple covering Dylan; Bang on a Can covering Eno; Carla Bozulich covering Willie Nelson; Diamanda Galas or Keiji Haino covering blues tunes; Derek Bailey playing jazz standards; Einstürzende Neubauten covering Lee Hazelwood/Nancy Sinatra; Espers covering Blue Öyster Cult; Fast 'n' Bulbous covering Captain Beefheart; Ghost covering the Rolling Stones; The Residents covering the Rolling Stones; Robert Wyatt covering Peter Gabriel or Elvis Costello; Thing covering various garage tunes; various Masada-based configurations doing Masada compositions; Marc Ribot covering the Beatles; Phil Minton covering Jimi Hendrix; Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet covering the Beatles.

There was a feature in a recent Wire on radical covers, too.

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This was my contribution coupla days ago. Didn't get much play.

I love Aztec Camera's version of "Jump."

Fountains of Wayne does a cover of "Baby One More Time" that sounds like a completely different song.

and don't forget that Rock the Casbah in Arabic, and Anka's new album.

Dang, I missed that earlier thread. Thanks!

Downloading now, eekacat, thanks. And yeah, I know what you mean by not much play.

Here's Mary Jane Hooper's soul version of "Harper Valley PTA."

I got more weird covers at home