I may have mentioned it before, but I do like a good cover version. I also like a bad one. Most of all, I like an unlikely cover version and delving into the recesses of Spotify I have found some crackers – combinations that you could hardly make up. Some of my favourite unlikely combinations so far are: (with links to the songs for Spotify users)
- Crazy Horses covered by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
- How Soon Is Now? covered by t.A.T.u.
- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath covered by The Cardigans
- Enter Sandman covered by Paul Young
- Shock The Monkey covered by Coal Chamber
- Arnold Layne covered by Etienne Daho
- Sun Arise covered by Alice Cooper
- Ca Plane Pour Moi covered by The Presidents Of The United States
What next? Megadeth doing a version of Rainy Days and Mondays?  Chaka Demus & Pliers covering Yes’s Close to the Edge?
I also found some great examples of songs done in a completely diffrent style that really work, but I’ll save them for another day.
Ah there is nothing like a rotten cover version. I though the Cardigans also did Iron Man but I could be imagining it
Not imagining it – they did do a fine trance version of Iron Man
The last song I heard on my mp3 player on the way home was Billy Bragg’s When Will I see You Again (Precious Moments). It really works!
The worst cover version by someone who you think ought to make a decent stab of it is Fairytale of New York by Christy Moore. But that’s only assuming you have excluded Plácido Domingo’s The Broadway I Love CD.