Amusing covers
I love the shock value of this one; Nina Gordon covers “Straight Outta Compton”
In the same vein, there’s Jenny Owen Youngs’s cover of “Hot in Here”.The video’s brilliant: singing the song in an igloo 
Then there’s Alanis Morissette’s cover of “My Hump”. I don’t really get what she’s trying to convey– the the original song is vapid?–, but whatever her motivation, it made for good listening.
I just discovered Jonathan Coulton, who in addition to his folksy troubadour cover of “Baby Got Back”, which you can listen to for free on his music page has an original song “Creepy Doll” worth experiencing. The video below has a cut version of Creepy Doll as the soundtrack; the full version is available on the same page.
To round it off, here’s Richard Cleese’s faux lounge act cover of “Baby Got Back”; if you listen past it, he also covers Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus”. He seems to have a lot of these covers on Youtube.
Possibly relevant posts:
- Brandi Carlile (10/9/2008)
- Questions (3/3/2003)
- My first youtube playlist (11/21/2008)