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Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink's "Kenneth" repeats only the titular line from "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" by REM.
On one of their early singles, the Registrators totally slaughtered "Hotel California" like no other band I've heard.
The Genbaku Onanies and Hijo Kaidan formed a merged band called Genbaku Kaidan and released an LP called "Acid Soul" which was essentially the unwieldly group slaughtering a buncha classic rock staples. Their version of "Communication Breakdown" is a bruiser, but "Mississippi Queen" is the biggest joke on the record.
Especially Likely Sloth's cover of Cannibal Corpse's "Hammer Smashed Face" sounds like it replaces that sick pitch-shifted riff in the refrain with a chorus of cheap plastic kazoos. The rhythm's disjointed, cut/pasted, and the vocals sound like a drowning little girl.
The version of "Beat It" by the Strangulated Beatoffs pokes a lot of fun at Jacko: "Show 'em your weenie/Show 'em it's white!" A long time earlier, there was a great 7" they did with a couple of Beatles songs including "Don't Let Me Down," which was proto-chopped 'n' screwed.
Perhaps no great pisstake of the Beatles exists than the 7" by an obscure Nebraska band in 1980 that dared to call themselves the Better Beatles. They were perhaps the only Midwestern synthpunk band from this era.
And, of course, Negativland's "U2" is the greatest example of this sorta thing ever!
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