The Most Insane Cover Songs Ever 

Its weird to me that you mentioned Johnny Cash's version of Hurt and Anderson .Paaks Cover Art and didn't mention "Heart of Gold" at any point. Written by Neil Young and coming from Harvest, the song has been covered by so many artist that its franly astounding its been around for only 50 years. Even moreso, I think what draws me to it as the pinnacle of what a cover song is, is its simplicity and the power it derives. Depending on the artist the song takes on such a different feeling and I've seen someone comment before that the country versions done by Cash, Young, and Willie Nelson all feel like the same person singing the song at vastly different points in their life. Adding other versions like Anderson .Paak's and Charles Bradleys soulful rendition, its a song that has a beautiful legacy. All of theme are worth checking out.

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You never even mentioned children of bodom who cover really different music which i thought would be interesting. Also johnny cash covering hurt is too easy, he should have done "head like a whole" now THAT would have been interesting

You forgot to mention about how many covers there are for come together by the Beatles

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then, Kid Cudi covered "Where did you sleep last night" in his band WZRD

I feel like its not a cover instead its more like a telling of a story. Folk songs are readaptations of folk tales and are told differently every time.

as estelle types this out, the realm of parodies beyond human comprehension, far outside our universe, rumbles. some minion of the dark, observing our world, will quickly teleport into this twisted inversion of reality, hurry himself into the great throne room of his god. he crawls towards his master, scroll in his hands. the man takes one languid glance at the text, before dissipating the scroll into the air. "good job, dear minion," he says, smiling, and the little goblin grins, scurrying outside the throne room, and weird al rises from his throne. "good, good.” he says, standing triumphantly amongst his goons. “minions, we have done it," he booms, "we’ve the formulation to destroy the universe." his little goblins cheer in unison, and somewhere on spotify, in three minutes, estelle will have summoned it: the great ska cover of imagine by john lennon, and in three minutes the universe, as we know it, will cease to exist. (yeah i know his big thing is polka but i think he'd do a ska cover of imagine by john lennon if he knew the world would collapse. mister yankovic would willingly implode our universe for giggles and chuckles. and i'd laugh. i like him a lot.)

But what if u cover like a riff from another song and use it as a sample un your song?

@joaquinkurozaki2624 this is called "extrapolation". It's trickier because you do need to credit the composer(s) of the song that has the riff as well as the composer(s) of the rest of the song, but how much of the revenue goes to whom is usually handled by lawyers and depends on several factors, like how much you took from that other song and how prevalent that part is to your overall composition. It's something that does come up often in cases of plagiarism, where usually, it's only a portion of the song that is lifted from another composition. When the people who believe their song was plagiarized win the case, they will have their names in the credits alongside the other composers. So you don't technically need approval, but if the composers of the original song believe the share you're giving them isn't enough, then can sue you, so most labels will reach out to them to negociate a fair share in advance. Note that all songwriters of the original song need to be credited, even if you only take a riff that was actually created by one of them.

@@estellegrignon interesting, the only time i've seen this is with tributes to other artista, thanks for the info

if you're awesome and you can do it without crediting the original artist and without paying them a fixed amount

i greatly disagree. I love zel, i love Ratm, but he doesnt really do anything new with it, other than the rap verse. Same delivery, instrumental, everything.

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i was just gonna mention it's oh so quiet! such a great cover

Squarepusher also did an insane remix of Pink Maggit by Deftones that I'd reccomend

He really turned Dancing Queen into, a Sonic track.

I was looking for a comment bringing up this guy the Barbie cover with free bird was pretty cool

theres bluegrass cover of Valerie by the brothers comatose that's also really good

i was just about to mention this one!

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I was just about to comment this, 10/10 album

i haven't interacted with anything tally hall related in a year, so I was confused when I saw chonny jash's names come up a lot, but now I know who he is lol. I might listen to the album you mentioned. sounds interesting

guns n roses best cover was mama kin. they ruined all their covers with live and let die tho.

One of my favorite songs of all time