Mike Whybark has been kindly keeping the general public informed about B^2’s on-going attempts at musical archeology. It apparently started with a heroically insane list of 80s covers, which includes an mp3 of “Tainted Love” by a man named Max Raabe; it sounds like the song was re-written by Kurt Weill.
B^2 has followed up with further musings on the mysterious Max Raabe; said musings include a link to Mr. Raabe crooning “Oops… I Did It Again”, backed by a squeaky Weimar-era-sounding cabaret band. It’s utterly brilliant.
While I don’t have anything that good, the brit band Travis’ acoustic version of “Baby Hit Me One More Time” comes very close and is well worth the listen…