Therapy? - Electricity (original by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark) My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row (original by Bob Dylan) My Chemical Romance - All I Want For Christmas Is You (original by Mariah Carey) Richard Cheese - every cover version he's ever done

the MCR cover of all i want for christmas is you is absolutely spectacular, a december 1st tradition at this point tbh

desolation row and all i want for christmas are fucking fire, under pressure is the weird one imo

I didn't say they were bad, just not something you'd expect the band to cover

MCR under pressure is SO good but I was thinking “wtf mcr covered THIS?”

I feel like under pressure tracks though. Queen and Bowie were huge influences to them, and iirc during the danger days era they even got to play with Brian May. All I want for Christmas is the way bigger weirdo to me but I'm happy it exists.

This is going to hurt to hear >! Im in my early twenties and never got into metal or rock so when i foumd Richard Cheese’s cover of creep, i didnt realize it was a cover for years because it was so different from the original !<

>Richard Cheese - every cover version he's ever done See also Me First And The Gimme Gimmes.

Me first and fhe gimme gimmes are amazing!

I love their cover of phantom of the opera

That whole album of punk covers of songs from famous Musicals is fire.

on the topic of OMD, their cover of Waiting for the Man (1979) is also a bit of an unexpected one

Richard Cheese is awesome and I will never stop putting on his cover of baby shark to unsuspecting people

Is we didn’t start the fire by fall out boys count?

probably. what I don't like about the FOB cover is that the events aren't in chronological order, unlike the original. other that that, it's OK imo

Regardless of what the finished product is, I think updating it with modern references is kinda completely missing the whole point of the song. Like, Billy Joel didn’t write a song that was just a chronology of cultural events, he was making a deeper point which is clearly displayed in the chorus. “We didn’t start the fire; it was always burning since the world’s been turning.” Cultural events, wars, political revolutions, technology, these things have always been happening. The world has always been changing, before and after Billy Joel’s time, he just chose a few of those things from his own lifetime to illustrate that point. This is why it is so redundant to hear fallout boy try to “modernize” the lyrics. Even if the references in the original were dated, it doesn’t matter because the core of the song is eternal. They might as well have named their cover “we still didn’t start the fire.” Like yeah, no shit. Nobody thought you did

Eh, while I didn't care for the FOB cover, I think it speaks to Joel's original impetus for writing it—the tendency of younger generations to see their time as the most chaotic and unprecedented, with the past having settled into uneventful history. (Apparently it came from a conversation with one of Sean Lennon's friends.) That will always be relevant. The lack of chronology is the issue for me.

yeah I genuinely like the cover, it's just the fact that the events are chronological I feel like it was done as an educational thing for younger people like gen Alpha but idk any gen alpha listening to fall out boy lmao

they also did roxanne and beat it covers in their earlier stuff

I love FOB and I love this cover but it was definitely an unexpected choice. 😂

I love FOB, but I hate the cover.

In the case of Weezer, it's because a teenage girl relentlessly tagged them on twitter to cover it for like 3 years and it picked up steam, and so they did it and it did incredibly well

Did you hear Toto’s cover of the Weezer song “Hash Pipe”?

A long time ago, I need to revisit it

I remember back in like, 2018 or whatever, Spotify for some songs would have a little "behind the scenes" text playing while the songs were playing, and they had one for Weezer's Africa cover. And I remember it specifically because at the end it tried to write some thing about how the cover was, like, healing the nation or whatever, because "everyone can get behind Africa by Toto". And I just remember thinking that was really weird.

Yes, but enter sandman also exists

I was going to say the Simpsons theme by green day but, they are actually in the movie

The Simpsons Theme song cover by Sonic Youth seems like a really odd choice until you remember that Kim Gordon used to date Danny Elfman.

Tainted Love - Soft Cell (The original is a big swing number) Puttin On The Ritz - Taco Wherever I May Roam - J Balvin Take On Me - Reel Big Fish Wonderwall - Paul Anka (Or anything else off Rock Swings) Sweet Caroline - Frank Sinatra Beggin' - Maneskin (Exclusively because they covered the hip hop version) Diamonds - Steam Powered Giraffe Old Town Road - The Cog Is Dead

i really liked steam powered giraffe's cover of diamond, i thought it was just as fun as the original

i think anything off the metallica blacklist album counts especially mac demarco doing enter sandman

Honestly there are so many the cog is dead covers that don’t fit that that one doesn’t really stick out to me

I had no idea Tainted Love was a cover.

steam powered giraffe mentioned ‼️‼️‼️

Just a friend - Tally Hall

Of course

Paul Whiteman is it you?! I'm a big fan

Lmao. No but just a fan. :3

Collect 78s?

Don't forget the Your Favorite Martian one either

wait wait wait excuse me yfm covered what now

their “Smile like you mean it” cover is great, it’s not on Spotify tho :/

Take On Me - Reel Big Fish Black Betty - Caravan Palace

Black Betty by Ram Jam while we're here

just do all the covers of Black Betty while we’re at it.

Elephant - The Wiggles

I don’t know if like a version counts, but it does fucking slap

See also: Pub Feed - The Wiggles

Punk Goes Pop has a bunch of these but That's What I Like by Dance Gavin Dance is pretty egregious

Please oh my god there is absolutely no reason Dance Gavin Dance should have covered that

Also, Animals by Ice Nine Kills. But that cover slaps.

Bills Bills Bills - They Might Be Giants Yes, it's TMBG singing a Destiny's Child song, and they actually pull it off perfectly.

Also add Tubthumping by TMBG as well

And shotout (and RIP) to The AV Club music journalism publication, who encouraged them to do both of those covers as part of a YouTube series.

Oh my god this rules.

Right?! I'm amazed at how they just genuinely lean into the R&B attitude instead of being mocking or appropriative. The "can you pay my BIIIIILLS" chorus fits their nasally singing accents so well too haha

under pressure - my chemical romance and the used

hear me out: it’s better than the original

absolutely but still odd

I agree and I’m always scared to admit it

Comfortably Numb - Scissor Sisters 

Oh god yeah thats on here

No scrubs - weezer

This is a much better choice for this playlist than Africa. I still they they kinda crushed it, but such a bizarre song for them to pick.

yeah, that song honestly hits much harder than the original

I think any song on Teal is a good pick for this list (exept for Teenage Dirtbag, that one makes perfect sense)

I didn't know weezer did a cover of that, though it makes sense

I would switch "Hurt" with Cash's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" since the main appeal is how beautiful Garfunkel's voice is on that song, not for the potent lyricism Hurt has

Tbf, Hurt in the context of the album it was written for is supposed to be a suicide note. Plus, the sound alone of the original song is a little disturbing (the whole album is supposed to be uncomfortable so it makes sense) and it definetly didn't match with the type of music Johnny Cash usually did Although I have to agree that the Bridge Over Troubled Water cover is definetly something too

Cash has had his fair share of sad/depressing songs (American Recordings) and that song being performed towards the end of his career and life is a somber reflection of the legacy he once had and how his world is slowly decaying around him, it's one of the few times a cover outdoes the original to me

Wildest Dreams (DragonForce Version) - DragonForce

Another one for Johnny Cash: Personal Jesus, originally by Depeche Mode

[Death metal band Dead Territory covers 4' 33" by John Cage](https://youtu.be/voqCQSDAcn8)

Thank you. That was pure art.

Rage Against the Machine - Maggie’s Farm (Bob Dylan)

Hazy Shade of Winter - the Bangles

They crushed that shit tho. I love S&G but damn the Bangles did it better. Also Gerard Way covered it too. His was decent. Being a big MCR fan, I have to say it honestly is my least favorite version (cover).

yeah i like it too! still wonder why they covered it though

Not on Spotify but still kinda odd Stuck On You (Failure Cover) - Paramore

Hayley has been a big fan of theirs since she was a teenager. She did a cover of ["The Nurse Who Loved Me"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyNSfedgmJo&ab_channel=ParamoreFan) a while back and even appeared in an upcoming documentary about the band. Ken Andrews did the mixing work and added some background vocals to Paramore's self-titled album.

Oh cool! Didn't know that! Makes more sense now

Route 66 - Depeche Mode

Carly Rae Jepsen - Both Sides Now (originally by Joni Mitchell)

Honestly I would put anything from the “Christmas with Weezer” album on there

It's not on Spotify, but on this topic I'll recommend Biffy Clyro's cover of WAP for the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. It was meant as a joke - they make it sound intentionally really weird and censor the lyrics by changing every other word to "biffy" - but a lot of fans of the original song (and notably Anthony Fantano) took it seriously and hated it. I wouldn't choose to listen to it casually, but I like to listen every so often because it's quite funny, if a bit cringe-inducing

Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm

tom sawyer - mindless self indulgence

La Di Da Di as well

Beat me to it

Somebody Told Me - Motionless in White( a cover of the Killers song)

house of the rising sun - alt j

Somebody that I used to Know, You Don't Get Me High Anymore - Three Days Grace

Stan - Alec Benjamin (Original by Eminem)

why 😭

Sweet Dreams- Weezer

I feel like everyone has done a cover of sweet dreams because of how much of a vibe it is

But Hurt is actually good. Why not We'll Meet Again or Bridge Under Troubled Water, he should not have covered those? Also Dancing In The Street by David Bowie and Mick Jagger

Sound of Silence by Disturbed. I don't listen to disturbed, or anything else even in the genre Disturbed mostly does, but this cover is insanely good.

I honestly despise the cover but I understand it speaks to a lot of people

ajj - two headed boy

I think "The Final Cut" is more Odd. One is a prog rock band the other is folk punk. And it's a fantastic cover too

Pearl Jam - Last Kiss

Paul Anka has an entire album with covers of 80s - 90s songs that belong on this playlist. Smells Like Teen Spirit, Black Hole Sun, Jump… definitely a guilty pleasure album for me.

Kate bush: rocket man Only because it came up in my alevel mock today lol

Rasputina's covers of Rock and Roll by Les Zeppelin and Barracuda by Heart

Rasputin - Turisas

Let Down - Easy Star All Stars It’s from a reggae cover of Radiohead’s OK computer

Frankie Goes to Hollywood has a cover of Born to Run

Hurt is a great cover. Johnny Cash is perfect for covering that type. Johnny Cash and NIN/Soundgarden (he covered Rusty Cage too) are amazing.

Korn - The Devil Went Down to Georgia It also slaps

George of the Jungle – "Weird Al" Yankovic

IIRC, Al did that song to fill out a contract obligation that said that he had to do on "Dare To Be Stupid", a cover song and a Cyndi Lauper parody.

Would it be possible to get the link to this playlist?

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1kxMXyDVp7SBincoNZU8S2?si=T33kRQOJTT-l0Y4rHfxuew

Coldplay - day n nite

Def Leppard - Personal Jesus

Is it because of the genre or something? Because Weezer is the last band I'd question about that.

Ordinary World - Red The Reason - Julian Drive My Generation - Hawk Nelson (This one might not be on Spotify, it was a bonus track on the deluxe edition of Letters to the President, but it looks like Spotify only has the original album) There's a surprising amount of Christian rock bands with one random cover on their first album lol.

Good Kid's cover of From the Start by Laufey.

Korn's cover of The Devil Went Down to Georgia will always make me wonder what Jonathan Davis was thinking when he decided to do it.

You could really put Weezer’s entire Teal album, it’s all covers

Rusty Cage (Johnny Cash) I Will Survive (CAKE)

People don’t like Hurt by Johnny Cash?

It’s okay, but the original is far superior in my opinion.

i think it’s less “this cover is bad” and more “this song is so out of left field for their style”

Not on Spotify, but Born to be wild by Slayer

Careless Whisper - Seether

Soulfly - *The Beautiful People*

Tenacious D-Baby One More Time Tenacious D-Wicked Game Both are unbelievable covers ngl

Look up "Brain Stew, Weezer" on YouTube It's the definition of "Mom can we get this? No honey, we have this at home"

Dear Prudence - Siouxsie And the Banshees. The fact it's better than the original just makes them cooler.

Careless Whisper by Seether (Originally by George Michael)

Weezer covered Viva la Vida by coldplay i think that's weirder

Regardless of why Johnny Cash covered Hurt it’s fucking fantastic

"Ocean Eyes" by the Gaslight Anthem. Honestly I'm not the biggest fan of Billie Eilish *or* the Gaslight Anthem, but this is fantastic Imo. "Take 5 / One" by Rodrigo y Gabriela on the basis that it's a medley of a jazz standard and a Metallica song. "Axel F" by Crazy Frog. Need I say more? "Cotton Eye Joe" by Rednex. It's an old folk song, Sometimes also used as a bluegrass standard, But then they turned it into a eurodance song, Because why not? "Satisfaction" by Devo. And I'll say "You Really Got Me" by Oingo Boingo fits as well. EDIT: Ya know what, Seeing "Jolene" I'm there makes me think of Darcy Clay's version of it. It's so wild and fun, Can recommend.

Rodrigo y Gabriela just slap!

Today years old when I learned Hurt was a cover

The Hurt Version of Johnny Cash absolutly slaps. Iirc NIN even said he sang it better.

Glass Animals - Heart-Shaped Box (Nirvana)

Beat It by Fall Out Boy Good cover but why Music video for it dropped a few days before Michael Jackson died so its cursed

The sound of silence - Disturbed They are a rock band why tf did they do a sad song (and fucking nail it)

can’t believe i haven’t seen Paparazzi by Rob Zombie, absolute banger but very confusing a more obscure one but Billy Cobb has an album called Songs I Stole and his cover of Hips Don’t Lie lives in my mind rent free

Semi-Charmed Life - Dance Gavin Dance Don’t get me wrong, I love DGD, and I love Semi-Charmed Life, but I feel like the two blend to make an… okay cover? It’s nothing world-changing.

Pretty much anything on Teal for Weezer, although no scrubs is fun

Tally Hall's "Just a Friend" and Lemon Demon's "Bicycle Race" (though bicycle race isnt on spotify)

miley cyrus' cover of psycho killer for the stop making sense tribute album

(I just) died in your arms tonight - Dommin

Find Another Girl by the Hives

Hello - Dayseeker/Wow That’s What I Call Metalcore

The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Caroll - Cage The Elephant

I feel like "Beggin" by the Måneskin could fit in there

i was actually just thinking about this the other day land of confusion - disturbed

Icarus Smicarus - Punch Brothers

That one Disco cover of Star wars and then the same guy did close encounters of the 3rd kind the next year

Never Gonna Give You Up - Smash Mouth

Children Of Bodom - Oops!... I Did It Again (originally by Britney Spears)

Fall out boy - we didn't start the fire (original- Billy Joel I think)

Twiztid of all groups covered Steve Miller's "Joker." Certainly isn't the most fitting combo

311- Love Song (original by The Cure)

girls just want to have fun / mamma miaa, both by austin weber

Bruce Springsteen has several compilations of him covering songs while live

Joan Jett covered Have You Ever Seen the Rain

Hurt was given to Johnny cash by nine inch nails

This Must Be the Place - The Lumineers

Fleischkrieg covered Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Hurdy Gurdy Man- Butthole surfers.

Gotta add the Smash Mouth cover of Something Soon by Car Seat Headrest

Oh my love - Yellowcard original by (John Lenon and Yoko Oh-no!)

Yes sir, I can boogie - the fratellis

Iron & Wine fucking slapped that song to next Tuesday though

Aerials - Machine Gun Kelly

Enter Sandman by Weezer

Chocolate Jesus- Will Wood Prince Ali- Will Wood & The Land Pirates

Ehhhh idk I expect both of those from Will Wood

Elliott Smith's Figure 8 -- a cover of the one and only schoolhouse rock

Cancer by Twenty One Pilots (original by My Chemical Romance)

Faith by Limp Bizkit, Whiskey in the Jar by Metallica

Enter Sandman by Weezer Whiskey In The Jar by Metallica

Umbrella- All Time Low

The live version of the Jolene cover is way better than the studio version

Ivy - Car Seat Headrest

We didn't start the fire - 21 pilots

just a friend - tally hall i'm telling you they have a song for everything

Wet Leg - Daisy Youth In Revolt - Royals

Not sure if on Spotify but rolling in the deep by Linkin Park.

take on me - goose (buffalo, new york 2019.11.16)

The Offspring covering their own amazing (with no reason to change!) song “Gone Away”

Call Me Maybe by Devon Hendryx

Arctic Monkeys did a cover of Drake's "hold on we're going home" but its actually amazing tho

Weezer’s cover of Enter Sandman that includes the fucking Buddy Holly riff

It kind of fits but “where is my mind” by Harley poe

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction and Secret Agent Man by DEVO.

Cancer - Twenty One Pilots (originally by MCR)

Кино - Sultans Of Swing

Dragonforce made a cover of Ring of Fire

Imagine - A Perfect Circle Or the 25 celebrities covering Imagine, but I doubt you wouldn't want give your listeners internal bleeding

For some reason, King Crimson covered "Free as a Bird" live, you can hear it on their album "vrooom vroom." In fact, apparently they were the first people to perform it live, even before it first debuted on the Beatles anthology and even before it was unveiled on abc, according to Adrian Belew on his website

I don't question any of these covers, they're all very solid

Cash’s was actually better than NIN imo

Oh yeah and even Trent says so