This is fun…
ETA: Does anybody else enjoy reaction videos?
If you’re not familiar, they are delightful. The looks on the faces of the younger generation(s) when they first listen to a song familiar to one of my age. Joyful.
I might have an idea for a new thread.
As a cover, it is less transformative than I hoped for.
“This is about when we were younger but we didn’t write it.”
And while were at it:
Huh. TIL it wasn’t a 10,000 Maniacs original. The song absolutely slaps, and has some unusual things going on for a pop song, so it just felt like a 10,000 Maniacs tune. So finding out it’s a Patti Smith tune was my “of course…” moment for the day. Thanks!
Written by Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen, no less!
Edited as it was a collab, not just a Bruce creation, sorry.
Speaking of radiohead. One of my favourite covers that sprung from “remix our Nude song” contest:
(Skip to minute 1:00 to go directly to the song)
Would rather listen to GWAR’s version, personally:
(with bonus People Who Died)
I really miss AV Club’s cover show… 
Oh (sorry if these have been done). There’s some great stuff posted here btw thanks everyone.
and
Speaking of Daryl Hall and Lisa Loeb.
This whole episodes is really good.
Judas Priest, it’s Rob Halford!
I lost all track of him when Only Fools And Horses finished…
Oh, don’t get me wrong, Rob Halford is a hero.
When he came out,(somewhere in the nineties, I think), it had an effect on our local metallers. (very small town). But the fact was soon acceptable even amongst small town mentality, which I thought quite amazing.
At the same time, I wish Uncle Albert could have been the face of a Norwegian Metal Band.
I clicked that with no idea what to expect. Holy crap. I’d never have picked him out with the beard and glasses, but three notes in and my 15-year-old metalhead self was happy and on the case. “Oh wow, it’s him!!!”
It was like one of those videos where someone in the family who has been away for a few years is reintroduced to the dog. “Wait, who’s this? sniff… uh… sniff sniff… OMG, IT’S YOU!!!” [collapses in a waggy heap].
This ones been stuck in my head for a while now…
Apologies if it has been posted already.
It is a cover, of sorts… although you’ll have to listen to pick it.
Or remember the time NYC thrashers, Anthrax covered Joe Jackson?
Our garage band covered this cover. 
As the bassist, it made me cry and nearly broke my right hand.
