Sometimes a cover song is a lot different than the original song. Here is a collection of such cover songs in no particular order:

Alien Ant Farm covering Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal”:Ben Folds Five covering Dr. Dre’s “Bitches Aint Shit”:

Devo covering The Rolling Stone’s “Satisfaction”:

Gourds covering Snoop Dogg’s “Gin and Juice”:

Iron and Wine covering The Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights”:

Johnny Cash covering Nine Inch Nail’s “Hurt”:

Jordis Unga covering David Bowie’s “Man Who Sold the World”:

Matt Weddle covering Outkast’s “Hey Ya”:

Alanis Morissette covering Black Eyed Peas “My Humps”:

Nina Gordon covering Dr. Dre’s “Straight Outta’ Compton”:

The Postal Service covering Phil Collin’s “Against All Odds”:

Scala covering Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”:

Sid Vicious covering Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”:

Stevie Ann covering Britney Spear’s “Toxic”:

The Vines covering Outkast’s “Ms. Jackson”:

Richard Cheese covering Disturbed’s “Down with the Sickness”: