GWAR Covers Cyndi Lauper’s 'She Bop,' The Ramones’ 'Blitzkrieg Bop' [WATCH]

GWAR has covered Cyndi Lauper's 1984 pop gem "She Bop" on the A.V. Club's Undercover Series. which features artists covering other artist's greatest hits. After transforming the synth-pop female masturbation anthem into a moshpit-inducing thrash metal jam, the gore metal legends treated listeners to a bonus cover of the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop." Watch GWAR perform "She Bop/Blitzkrieg Bop" below.

As Stereogum reports, on the most recent installment of the A.V. Club's "Undercover Series," the band's cover of "She Bop" is actually more appropriate (both thematically and musically) than it is jarring. Lauper's 1984 hit was super controversial at the time of its release, landing a spot on the Parents Music Resource Center's infamous "Filthy 15" list that eventually led to the creation of the "Parental Advisory" sticker. GWAR, who formed in 1984, has always been considered controversial even if only for spewing blood-stuff at crowds.

Though the video is just under five minutes long, the band managed to squeeze in some of the goofy banter for which they're notorious. As Rolling Stone reports, the group couldn't help but open with some historic notes about the song's subject matter, joking about what "Bop" could mean, then adding that "'Blitzkrieg Bop' is like German warfare masturbation."

The Cyndi Lauper/Ramones super cover marks the monsters from outer space's fourth appearance on the series. As explained by the A.V.Club in the video's introduction, "every year we make a list of songs and invite bands to come into our office and cover them. And every year, GWAR comes in to totally destroy one."

The narrator's voice vascillates from that public radio tone we're all used to in 2015 to the doom-filled action/adventure film trailer voice befitting the start of any performance by the aliens; by the time he declares the video to be a part of the series' "Season 666," he's completely in metal mode.

In the past, GWAR stomped around the A.V. Club's studios to thrash their way through awesomely abrasive covers of the Pet Shop Boys' "West End Girls," Billy Ocean's "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" and Kansas' "Carry On My Wayward Son."

Remaining on the A.V. Club's list of songs to be covered this year are the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," The Fixx's "One Thing Leads To Another" and any song by GWAR, of course. That's right--we can expect some mystery artist's rendition of any GWAR song of their choosing before the year ends!

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GWAR, Cyndi Lauper, The ramones