Spider-Man (theme Song) - Covers and Parodies

Covers and Parodies

• Aerosmith covered the song for the soundtrack of the 2002 film adaptation, albeit with altered lyrics. It should also be noted that Aerosmith lead guitarist Joe Perry performed a new theme song for the 1994 Spider-Man cartoon, playing the lead guitar track and speaking lyrics through a vocoder that loosely referenced the 1967 theme, specifically the line "Spider-Man, Spider-Man, radioactive Spider-Man" and references to "radioactive blood" (changed to "radioactive spider blood" for the 1994 theme). The guitar riff was also based on the melody of the original line "Spider-Man, Spider-Man".
• Apollo 440 covered the song for the 2000 Spider-Man video game, developed by Neversoft for PlayStation, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64 and PC. This version also sampled the original.
• The punk band The Distillers have also recorded their own unique version for the Spider-Man 2 console game.
• Brian May reinterpreted the theme for the 1995 BBC Radio 1 serial.
• Moxy Früvous in the 1993 album Bargainville.
• The Mr. T Experience on their 1989 album Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood.
• Gilman Street punk band Stikky on their 1988 EP Cuddle.
• Ramones as a hidden track in the vinyl version of their 1995 album ¡Adios Amigos!, their 1996 album Greatest Hits Live, the compilation, Weird Tales of the Ramones (CD 3), as well as their last live performance We're Outta Here!. It also appears on the alt-rock compilation Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, and appears in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. The song is featured in the comedy film Bio-Dome as well. It was used in a television commercial for Spider-Man toys in Australia.
• The song has been parodied in a Kombat Pavilion Flash movie named "Scorpionman" within the "Konquest of the Kamidogu, pt. VIII" movie, based on the Mortal Kombat character Scorpion.
• Nintendo of America also parodied the song in a Bomberman 64 commercial during the 1997 holiday season.
• In The Simpsons Movie, Homer Simpson is seen walking a pig on the ceiling singing "Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig. Does whatever a Spider-Pig does. Can he swing, from a web? No he can't, he's a pig. Look ooooooouuuut! He is a Spider-Pig!" A choral version is in the closing credits, part of which appears in Homer's epiphany.
• On the syndicated radio program, The John Boy and Billy Big Show, a recurring segment called Married Man (the saga of a henpecked husband and second-rate superhero) uses a parody of the Spider-Man theme as its theme song.
• In the game Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (and its updated version, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3), Spider-Man himself makes several references to the song, such as "Look out, here comes the Spider-Man!" being one of his pre-fight quotes, and "Does what a Spider can!" being one of his taunts against an opponent.
• The Mexican group Fuego Indio recorded n Spanish version although this version only mentioned Spiderman and his Spanish name Hombre Araña. This version appeared almost on par with the 2002 film.
• Jazz Trumpeter Woody Shaw recorded the theme on his album "Setting Standards" and titled it "Spiderman Blues" not to be confused with the Bessie Smith tune titled "Spider Man Blues"
• Big John Bates covered the song on his 2001 debut Flamethrower in a surf version titled "Surfin With Spidey".