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September 29, 2016 2:12 PM

Rammstein-Du Hast (Bossa Nova Version) (SLYT)
posted by Johnny Wallflower (28 comments total)

Alternate title: \m/ 💃🏽
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 2:13 PM on September 29, 2016 [1 favorite]

I know Rammstein. Rammstein is my friend. You, sir, are not Rammstein. :-)
posted by Splunge at 2:22 PM on September 29, 2016 [1 favorite]

I... am... confused. It syncs so well with the video but I have difficulty believing they got up on stage and did this. Though I kind of wish they did. Because it's awesome.
posted by GuyZero at 2:31 PM on September 29, 2016

Dang, I forgot the Bonus: Andy Rehfeldt's YouTube Channel
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 2:36 PM on September 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

I... am... confused. It syncs so well with the video but I have difficulty believing they got up on stage and did this.

Andy Rehfeldt is very good at what he does.
posted by kenko at 2:36 PM on September 29, 2016 [3 favorites]

The only thing I can think of anytime anyone mentions this song.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 2:50 PM on September 29, 2016 [9 favorites]

I am basically a 8 year-old boy.

Andy Rehfeldt is very good at what he does.

He is. Very good.
posted by GuyZero at 3:08 PM on September 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

I say that Rehfeldt's high point is Heavy Metal Call Me Maybe, which might as well just be a Lacuna Coil song.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 3:11 PM on September 29, 2016 [1 favorite]

This reminds me of the time a group motorcycle dudes on big hogs went by and I realized they were blaring k-pop.
posted by srboisvert at 3:30 PM on September 29, 2016 [4 favorites]

OK, the Cookie Monster video made me legit laugh out loud.
posted by tickingclock at 4:26 PM on September 29, 2016

Still the best after all these years.
posted by googly at 5:13 PM on September 29, 2016 [6 favorites]

Rehfeldt is a treasure, I tell you. A treasure.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 5:13 PM on September 29, 2016

Amazing, thank you for posting this.
posted by cell divide at 5:24 PM on September 29, 2016

Hilarious re-do. Moves in the opposite direction than your typical Laibach cover -- Laibach being a Rammstein influence. (Compare: an original to its Laibach version.)
posted by bertran at 5:51 PM on September 29, 2016

I say that Rehfeldt's high point is Heavy Metal Call Me Maybe, which might as well just be a Lacuna Coil song.

I really like his death metal "House of the Rising Sun". And the smooth jazz "Enter Sandman".
posted by kenko at 7:32 PM on September 29, 2016 [3 favorites]

The Animals remake is especially pleasing because you can imagine the actual Animals doing it, in a very slightly different world.
posted by kenko at 7:34 PM on September 29, 2016

Oh I see the Metallica thing was already linked!
posted by kenko at 7:36 PM on September 29, 2016

The Heavy Metal Call Me Maybe is truly amazing. Here's a great variation: Call Me a Hole.
posted by and for no one at 9:58 PM on September 29, 2016 [3 favorites]

I never realized how much I missed Evanescence until I heard this metal version of Katy Perry. I would pay for an album of covers like this with the vocals rerecorded.
posted by limeonaire at 10:32 PM on September 29, 2016 [1 favorite]

Whoa, Charlotte Church's "Silent Night" is good. And by "good" I mean "terrifying."
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 11:11 PM on September 29, 2016

For similar cover versions, Nouvelle Vague is a band that makes bossanova covers of New Wave songs (and others) with a French New Wave aesthetic, for the love of the puns. See Guns of Brixton or Bela Lugosi's Dead for a couple of examples.

This isn't the first time Rammstein have gotten weird covers, Scala & Kolacny Brothers did the women's choir treatment of Engel some years ago. More Scala & Kolacny Brothers: Nothing Else Matters, Hier Kommt Alex (originally by Die Toten Hosen). Laibach themselves did a remix of Ohne Dich, too.
posted by sukeban at 11:26 PM on September 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

original Rammstein performance

why is that guy on a bloody treadmill
posted by iffthen at 2:38 AM on September 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

Sankt-Petersburg Klezmer band Dobranotch performs their version in Yiddish. (Translation by Asya from Lviv!) You really need a banjo and a tuba to get to the soul of Rammstein.
posted by zaelic at 3:09 AM on September 30, 2016 [4 favorites]

As far as Rammstein covers go, Mambo Kurt has an... interesting take on Engel. He also doe Thunderstruck by AC/DC.
posted by PontifexPrimus at 4:18 AM on September 30, 2016

The best version of Black Hole Sun but now I really want a Mexican Institute of Sound cover.
posted by winna at 4:07 PM on September 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

The comments imagining how one would rename RATM on the Rage Against The Machine-Killing In The Name(Less Angry Version) video are pretty funny
posted by mostly vowels at 6:35 PM on September 30, 2016

It's not going from dark to light exactly, but I always found the violet mix of Wreath of Barbs by Wumpscut amusing.
posted by jeffburdges at 11:37 AM on October 2, 2016

Same guy did a Metallica one.
posted by yoHighness at 3:28 AM on October 3, 2016