heidi | This is the most brilliant cover ever.

Download the cover of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" as performed by The Beatnix.

It will blow your mind.

madlori opined last month that there are four types of cover songs - the fourth she listed was the song reimagining cover - she deemed it the "good one", and I agree (although I also have a soft spot for the ironic and acousticizng cover-styles as well, and sometimes, songs can manifest as two or more "types" of cover song).

This cover of Stairway to Heaven in the style of I Wanna Hold Your Hand? Reimagines the song, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and what we think of when we listen to a song. It's more transformative, to borrow a term and use it in a non-lawyering sense, than even the Travis cover of Hit Me Baby One More Time (although less insane than The Wiggles' cover of Take A Walk on the Wild Side because that gets transmogrified into something interesting that isn't a particularly good song. But it wouldn't mean as much to someone who isn't familiar with the Led Zep original, or with early Beatles songs. They might think it's a good song, but the full import and impact just wouldn't hit them.

This Beatnix cover, imho, is a very good song. It's definitely worth a listen or six.

ETA And when the next song that plays on itunes is Green Day's Welcome to Paradise it can really remind you just how punk-beatles-ish early Green Day can sound. Yum.