{"id":813,"date":"2014-08-05T09:02:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T13:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=813"},"modified":"2014-08-05T09:02:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T13:02:32","slug":"13-classic-confounding-covers-popular-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/08\/05\/13-classic-confounding-covers-popular-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Classic and Confounding Covers of Popular Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s video of Bret Michaels serenading the new Nissan vans<\/a> with Lionel Richie’s “Endless Love” got us thinking about cover songs.<\/p>\n

Of course there are singers and artists who have made a name for themselves by doing gonzo covers of beloved songs (Richard Cheese singing Nirvana\u2019s \u201cRape Me\u201d comes to mind, or perhaps that one Pat Boone album when he was in his leather daddy phase singing Metallica covers …), and then of course folks like Weird Al who have mastered the art of musical parody. But what we present to you here are covers that sort of turn the original songs on their head, or just make you say \u201cWTF\u201d when you think about the artist singing the song (say, Dave Grohl), and the type of song they\u2019re covering (say, Gerry Rafferty\u2019s Lite FM-hit \u201cBaker Street\u201d).<\/p>\n

We can haz saxophone solos in our songs?<\/p>\n

1. Foo Fighters, \u201cBaker Street\u201d by Gerry Rafferty <\/strong>
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