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Plinking out the hits on YouTube

Posted 7:44am on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010

Based on this week's cover story on ukuleles, we were going to make you a little quiz that asked you to determine which of the following unlikely songs have or have not been ukulele-ized on YouTube. But as it turns out, there's almost no song left un-uked. So we leave you with a list of some of our favorite unlikely uke tunes and a plea to look them up (parental advisory on some of the lyrical content). Everyone needs a smile, and some dude playing Lady Gaga on the ukulele is bound to provide it.


Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit (by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain)
Lady Gaga's Bad Romance

Lil Wayne's Lollipop




Gwen Stefani and Akon's The Sweet Escape

Black Eyed Peas' I Gotta Feeling (by Lost Lounge Kids)


Metallica's Enter Sandman


A-Ha's Take On Me




Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody



Outkast's Hey Ya (by the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra)


Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine


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