History Main / CoverVersion

* Music/RadioTapok has built a career covering Western pop, rock, and metal songs in Russian. He's done everything from Music/{{Rammstein}} to Music/{{Disturbed}} to Music/FooFighters to Music/TwentyOnePilots. His BreakthroughHit in the west was Music/{{Sabaton}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRow6G5wQIw "The Attack of the Dead Men"]], which they helped him produce in a cross-promotion that dropped the day before ''The Great War'' came out.

** InUniverse, "[[SongsInTheKeyOfPanic Now Or Never]]" is a rock song originally performed by Squid Squad which has gone on to become the unofficial anthem of the game's Turf War sport. As of the third game, it has been covered six times by other in-universe bands in genres ranging from pop, to techno, to grunge.

** InUniverse, "[[SongsInTheKeyOfPanic Now Or Never]]" is a rock song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwivv1AeOcc originally performed by Squid Squad]]. As of the third game, it has been covered six times by in-universe bands, to say nothing of the various cover renditions in other franchises like ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''.
** "Calamari Inkantation" is also this in-universe, being a modernized pop version of "Chorus of Calamari County" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RBG4KLnGjY a popular traditional folk tune and dance in Inkling culture]].
* CrossCounter: It's possible to pull this off with any encounter, but the most direct example is when two Roller users charge each other head on, immediately splatting each other.

** Some of the covers on the album verge on {{Song Parody}}, with the idea being that Neil is such a ButtMonkey that the plot of the song would turn out differently if he were the one narrating: Caravan's "Golf Girl" is a SillyLoveSong about flirting with a girl who serves drinks on a golf course, and Neil's version starts with much the same premise - but this time it's heavily implied the "golf girl" doesn't feel the same way he does, and his flirting eventually extends to deciding to get naked on the golf course, so he ends up being beaten and arrested by cops.

* ''WebVideo/CLWEntertainment'': Collin makes several of these on his channel. His most popular covers are his ones of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' and ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' songs.

* WebVideo/JetLagTheGame'' featured a punk cover of ''The Okaihau Express'' during the end credits of Season 5.

If you're curious, the website [=WhoSampled=] has a [[https://www.whosampled.com/most-covered-tracks/
quite thorough list]] of the most popular songs to cover.

If you're curious, the website [=WhoSampled=] has a quite thorough list of the most popular songs to cover at https://www.whosampled.com/most-covered-tracks/

** A RunningGag for the band is to make the introduction of whatever they're covering sound like the beginning of a famous punk song - for instance the beginning of their version of "Sloop John B" is based on "Teenage Lobotomy" by {{Music/Ramones}}.

** Some of the covers on the album verge on {{Song Parody}}, with the idea being that Neil is such a ButtMonkey that the plot of the song would turn out differently if he were the one narrating: Caravan's "Golf Girl" is a SillyLoveSong about flirting with a girl who serves drinks on a golf course, and Neil's version starts with much the same premise - but this time it's heavily implied the "golf girl" doesn't feel the same way he does, and his flirting eventually extends to deciding to get naked on the golf course, and he ends up being beaten and arrested by cops.

* Music/{{Zucchero}}: In 2007, he made a cover of "Wonderful Life", originally conceived by Music/{{Black}} in 1987 for the album of the same name.

* Music/SmashMouth did a cover of "I'm a Believer" for the ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' soundtrack.
** Music/FrouFrou did a cover of ''Holding Out For a Hero'', which was played over the end credits of Shrek 2.