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** Similarly, the Who covered "Fire" as part of Pete Townshend's solo album ''[[The Iron Giant|The Iron Man]]'', where it becomes one of the space dragon's [[Villain Song|villain songs]].
** Then [[Monkey Dust]] picks it up, and [[Crosses the Line Twice]], with The Paedofinder General playing and singing it while he turns [[Burn the Witch|his usual pastime]] into a light-and-music show.
* [[Tom Waits]]' [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109161920/http://www.coveringthemouse.com/2007/10/heigh-ho-tom-waits.html cover of "Heigh Ho"] from Disney's ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'' turns it from a chipper work song into something decidedly more depressing, if not [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmarish]]. The tempo is slowed to a crawl, and the arrangement features the clanking percussion and minimal, dissonant instrumentation his later material is known for, along with some ominous subterranean reverb. Kind of puts the idea of dwarves putting in hours of back-breaking potentially deadly labor in a mine for no clear reason in a different light. At least one reviewer commented that it sounded like "noises from Gacy's basement."
** His cover of "Danny Says," by The Ramones, sounds like he's been riding on a bus for several days and his heart has just been broken at a truck stop.
** And "Army Ants," which is made entirely out of quotes from nature encyclopedias, sounds like a psychotic conspiracy theory.
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* The [[Dead Kennedys]] "covered" the Bobby Fuller classic "I Fought the Law" in the loosest possible sense - about half the lyrics were altered to make it into a [[Protest Song]] about the murders of George Moscone and Harvey Milk, and the song's refrain becomes "I fought the law, and ''I'' won."
** They also covered "Viva Las Vegas" in a similar manner. Although in that case they only used a few lyrical changes ("Let me roll a 7 with every shot" notably becomes "Got coke up my nose to dry away the snot") and just let the dripping sarcasm in Jello Biafra's voice do the rest.
** Bell X1 covered "I Fought The Law" as an acoustic country song and turned it into a quiet little tale of the consequences of mis-spent youth. [http://media.daytrotter.com/audio/dt/bell-x1-i-fought-the-law.mp3 It turns out there's a really pretty melody in there]{{Dead link}}.
* Obadiah Parker took [[OutKast]]'s upbeat "Hey Ya" and cut through the [[Lyrical Dissonance]] to spotlight the message about a troubled relationship in all its introspective glory.
** [[Scrubs]] had [[The Cast Showoff|Ted]] do an accoustic version with a guitar at a wedding. It was turned into an actually sweet love song.
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