Good Covers done in a different Genre

okay, maybe not.

plus that album where Luther Wright & The Wrongs re-do "The Wall"

is this real?
and is it the eighties time after time?

Lord no.

The Fall own this thread. - 'Lost in Music' etc.

FSA's "drowners" rocks.
What's 'this corrosion' a cover of?

OK, howzabout

The Vines - "Ms Jackson", I know you're all bored of it. But it still deserves mention.

Buck Owen's "Save the Last Dance For Me"

The Meat Purveyors - "What Goes On" by the Velvet Underground, bluegrass style

Also, most of the songs cited here now are not in different genre's from the original.

The Flaming Lips - "If I Only Had A Brain" (Wayne Coyne for President!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GQAmTznY2o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgHqbJr3NFI

Jess Reimer - People Have the Power

https://open.spotify.com/track/17xPrfDV9EdM448vgs68VA?si=amycsCv_Qbantc9sAZholg

Agree that a lot of these aren't from one genre to another, usually one subgenre of rock to another (at most). Dylan's Gospel is something else though---some (pre 80s Jesus tours) selections you might possibly expect, but I hadn't thought of, say, "Lay Lady Lay" or "The Mighty Quinn"(even though "all the pigeons gonna run to him." or mebbe "Him.") It all fits though: https://lightintheattic.net/releases/1007-dylan-s-gospel Reminds me, Buddy Guy covered "LLL" with Anthony Hamilton and Robert Randolph, who came out of that Pentacostal sacred steel scene (see also the electrified documentary Sacred Steel.)
Lots of r&b-blues-gospel etc. Dylan covers---I especially like the Persuasions' a capella "The Man in Me," from '71 or so, usually on YouTube (much later, they did a whole album of Dylan).
Dylan's cover of Cy "Fuck pop-rock, I'm Broadway!" Coleman's "Why Try To Change Me Now?" is pretty frisky, not that far from the feel of his own "If Dogs Run Free."

Lou Reed's different takes on "September Song"(from both those Hal Willner-produced Weill tribute comps---most rock versions of Weill, good as they can be, are mostly just a little rougher and louder), T. Heads' "Take Me To The River," Otis Redding's "Satisfaction."

i love this topic but unfortunately it's one of those that's too broad for me to address in any meaningful way, there are _so many_ cross-genre jams, i mean where do you start? aunto molly urso's disco version of "somewhere over the rainbow"? well, sure, but where do you go from there?

I approve of reviving this. Here's a Spotify playlist I maintain of metal covers of non-metal songs:

https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/5ELFqIEIGDt9qkd96WgdMq?si=KzJDOQzkTiiaM6co3glYEQ

Birthday party Cayman, Loose.
Mercury Rev I Only Have Eyes For You, If You Want Me To Stay.
Grateful Dead Turn On Your Lovelight, Spanish Jam(almost straight lifts from Miles Davis Sketches Of Spain in some versions).
Feedtime Cooper S duntoid covers of various pop.
Leather Nun ABBA covers. Sleazy heavy rock versions of pop by one time Industrial records associate Danes.
Henry Cow I'm Not Marching Any More.
John Coltrane My Favourite Things, Chim Chim Cheree,

Birthday Party was Catman

Train Kept A rolling. Starts as jump blues with Tiny Bradshaw becomes better known as a rock'n'roll number by Johnny Burnette Trio. Then gets picked up as hard rock by Led Zeppelin and others including Motorhead.
Louie Louie starts as a Latin number by Richard Berry is turned into a garage staple by the Kingsmen and then picked up variously as hard rock, punk etc by later covers.

I should have added teh Flamingoes I Only Have Eyes For yOu since it started in the late 20s as a showtune.

MY Little Red Book which goes from being a Bacharach tune played by Mannfred Mann to a garage classic by Love.

That's No Way tO Say Goodbye goes from being leonard cohen song to folk-jazz with great breakbeats by Roberta Flack

Good Shepherd trad folk song gets psychedelicised by Jefferson Airplane on Volunteers.

Alabama Bound by the Charlatans turns from a old timey song to a gossamer workout

GUn Club Preaching the Blues, A Love Supreme (is taht Introduction, first track in the suite?) Black Hole

Cabaret Voltaire There She Goes Again

Pentangle Sally Go Round the Roses

THat Gun Club A love Supreme cover may be Acknowledgment, played as a garage cover.
Santana/Mclaughlin similarly pick up one section of the suite and refer to it as A Love Supreme which is pretty great..

Sisters Of Mercy - Gimme Shelter
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind, Where The Streets Have No Name (Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
Ladytron - Oops Oh My

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCX9X9FJXXA

The Flamingos turning “I Only Have Eyes for You” from a novelty showtune into a grand doo-wop ballad is probably the ultimate example of this.

Spice Girls reimagined by Lester Bowie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUkthLDHvsM

I fell in a Spotify clickhole recently and landed on those Shovels & Rope "Busted Jukebox" albums, so I'd like to shout out their Caroline Rose-led reimagining of Nine Inch Nails' "Last" as a hoedown.

Mars KIng Crimson
America Yes
Voodoo Chile The Membranes

Mark Stewart I can't Help Thinking About Me
MC5 Upper & lower Egypt, It's A Man's Man's Man's World

"It's a man's... world" owns this, see also The Residents, and Brilliant.

"Heaven" - DJ Sammy and Yanou ft. Do (2001)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJWxkYu8WgU

Spanky Wilson doing ‘light my fire’ and ‘sunshine of your love’ are pretty classic.
Soft Cell doing ‘ Tainted Love’ although does it count when the cover can make an argument for being the definitive version.

I've got a soft spot for this version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWn5B1FE3fU

Xpost I will always direct people to Ruth Swann's version of "Tainted Love" from 1974 or so, vry similar arrangement to Soft Cell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDCLUiGi_r0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvOVJn0i6k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdK3obFasYk