Cover Songs that are Only Partial Versions of the Original

This thread was somewhat along the same line, but it also namedropped Vanilla Fudge: Covers that are different from the original

Oasis "Hello"
Oasis half their catalogue

MC5's "Starship" was credited solely to Sun Ra, but sounds nothing like Ra's "Starship" for a number of reasons, chief one being that there is no such Ra composition. Rather, the spoken-word portion was in fact Rob Tyner's recitation of a Ra poem taken from one of the "Heliocentric" albums.

Cat Power's Satisfaction drops the chorus. </obv>

low's version of transmission omits a verse (i think)

dead c's "children of the revolution" uses maybe half a dozen lines of the original (and does not particularly resemble it musically)

Rotting Christ covered just the first half of Current 93's "Lucifer Over London". The cover ends before the six six six it makes us sick, we're sick sick sick of six six six part, which I guess is not very metal.

Hip-hop and house music from 1985-86 to the present day to thread.

Minutemen version of Van Halen's Ain't Talkin Bout Love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tu-VMvhFsU

Anal Cunt's version of "Just the two of us"

Also Apollo 440s version of "Ain't Talkin Bout Love" although it had a slightly different title.

Buzzcocks' version of Beefheart's "I Love You, You Big Dummy" doesn't sound much like the original. See also Jesus + Mary Chain's rubbish version of Can's "Mushroom"

A number of songs on Tori Amos's Strange Little Girls. On "Heart of Gold" and "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" in particular she takes a mess of liberties with the 'riginals.

Giant Sand is really good at this. i'm particularly fond of their half & half cover of "El Paso" & "Out on The Weekend".

PP Arnold's version of Different Drum inexplicably fades out after just over 2 minutes missing a verse or 2

Patti Smith: Gloria

Will To Power: Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird

Baby Fox do a very cool minute-and-a-half of T. Rex's "Girl" and then whoosh on out of it.

Gibson Bros. covered Alice Cooper's "Caught In A Dream", but really it was only the first few lines, with an extended white-trash jam...

Prince's cover of "Creep" at Coachella, which did some reinterpreting.

pixies, "head on"

most of pavement's covers are pretty half-assed

Since Cat Power and Free Bird have both been mentioned, saw Cat Power do a live version of Free Bird 8 or 9 years ago. Ran about two minutes.

Prince's cover of "Creep" at Coachella, which did some reinterpreting.

TLC or Radiohead?

"I'm Free" - Soup Dragons

Giant Skyflower Band - Bitter Wild Rabbits/Builds the Bone

^^Good song too.

limp bizkit's terrible take on 'behind blue eyes' drops the rocking section from the who original, you're basically left with fred durst mewling the "no one knows what it's like to be the sad man" bits.

From what I've heard (Free Man in Paris, What Goes On), every cover Sufjan Stevens has ever recorded completely abandons the melody.