Average Jane on Weird Song Covers

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At breakfast yesterday with my husband (okay, I’ll admit it: we had “breakfast” at 12:30 p.m. and it was pizza), we were listening to the classic rock music pumped over the restaurant’s sound system and talking about songs that would be fun to play.

We got on the topic of Rod Stewart and he brought up, “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy.” We agreed that neither of us would ever be able to hear it again without thinking of Mike Myers’ rendition of the song in “So I Married An Axe Murder,” complete with bagpipe solo.

Which, of course, reminded me that I can no longer hear “Come Sail Away” by Styx without thinking of Eric Cartman from South Park singing it:

So what songs can you think of that are inextricably linked in your mind to a silly version that came out later?

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5 responses to “Average Jane on Weird Song Covers”

November 2, 2009

Star Foster

Both are classics.

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November 2, 2009

staying afloat

I can’t think of Michael Jackson’s “Bad” without hearing and seeing Weird Al’s “Fat”. Does that count?

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November 2, 2009

CW

Anything sung by The Dan Band.

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November 2, 2009

Kim

I found a mashup of Kanye’s Gold Digger and Cake’s Mahna Mahna that pretty much blows the original Gold Digger out of the water, and I can only listen to the mashup. I could listen to that mashup a millllllion times and never get tired of it!

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November 2, 2009

Lisa!

“Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult…makes me think of Will Farrell and Christopher Walken…”I need more cowbell!”

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