Today’s date, by American convention, is a countdown, and I for once chose to recognize the occasion with an afternoon of YouTube spelunking in search of awesome, or at least hilarious, covers of “Final Countdown.” Hoooly moly, did I ever find some good ones. Let’s start with the obvious classic:
Which is barely the tip of the iceberg….
Arrested Development, of course:
Which was awesomely recreated by Australian “illusionist”:
There’s this round-up of 20 other covers:
This Scottish trio:
A high school marching band in Ohio:
Michigan’s marching band mashed it up with “Enter Sandman”:
Okay, fine, one more marching band:
And some sixth-graders:
And for our grand finale, a nine-year-old rocking out on violin:
But why no clip of the original video? Poor Europe. They’re the Rodney Dangerfield of the hair metal world….
I will never be able to hear this song again without thinking of GOB and “Arrested Development”. So glad you included the little “A magician named Gob” clip. And that Australian “illusionist” (LOL) doing the homage was priceless!
How could you forget Lisa Rinna’s ridonk paso doble from DWTS?
GOB Bluth made this song awesome.
What is today a countdown to?
haha. I am a HUGE idiot. I get it. Nevermind.
Margaret, you brought me the joy of autotuned scientists, and now this. I thank you.
I like the violinist one with her ‘fan’.
Those are all good but none can compare to this masterpiece.
http://tinyurl.com/op89h
Really truly the only cover that matters is this one