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[Note: after my hosting account was hacked and reset, I was unable to find a copy of the picture in this post. Sorry.]

I am amazed by this. Somehow, there are people in this world that think that the Eagles and the Rolling Stones collaborated to produce "Brown-Eyed Girl" ... IN THE SEVENTIES. To make matters worse, it's the freakin' radio edit (which replaces "making love in the green grass" with "laughin' and a-runnin'" - you can hear the splice, too). And that's just the most egregious entry. Let's go down the list, shall we? I'll also label each version as edited or unedited, just for fun.

• Jimmy Buffett - Suprisingly, this is really him. Steel drums and all. (unedited)
  
• Green Day - Yes, it's a punk cover. No, it's not Green Day. Is it really that hard to tell? (hilariously unedited - the line is changed to "boning down in the green grass")
  
• James Taylor - It's not him, it's Van. (edited)
• Everclear - I was going to make a joke about how I knew this wasn't an Everclear song because I couldn't sing "Santa Monica" to it. The sad part is, it really is them - AND SOMEHOW I CAN SING "SANTA MONICA" TO THEIR VERSION. (unedited, but the arrangement is really gross. It sounds like Christian rock)
• Bruce Springsteen with Van Morrison (live) - It's hard to tell because this is a really bad bootleg. The first singer sounds like it could be the Boss. Then somebody comes in singing really bad harmony and different words on top of what the first guy is doing. I won't knock that because, I mean, I basically just described a Renaissance motet. But this is really bad. And clearly not Van. Upon further review, I have determined it's not Bruce either, which leaves us with the question of who did this and how much they ought to suffer for it. (unedited)
• CCR - This is clearly Van doing an alternate take. Or is it CCR? No, it's definitely not. But they had me fooled for a minute. (unedited, with a longer bass break and cooler backing vocals)
• Weezer (acoustic) - You gotta be kidding me. Not only is this not Weezer, it's terrible. Clearly some crackheaded backwater garage band decided it would be cool to record a version of this song with acoustic guitars, bass, drums, and backing vocals that sing in unison with the lead. On a lighter note: if this recording really is Weezer, I will eat my copy of the Blue album and never look back.
• Reel Big Fish - Not even close, but it is a ska-rock version with horns. Super Extra Bonus: the lyrics to this supposed version. All my best humor falls short of these lyrics, including but not limited to "gone down the old man witha / transista radio" and "cast from every backround law / sometime over come thikin bout ya". This is why I don't trust the Internet for anything.
• MXPX - The same version as the one labeled "Green Day". It's probably MXPX because it's a really bland punk arrangement and I keep thinking Reel Big Fish would do it better. Just like "Take On Me". Or any other song ever written in the history of the world.
  
• Jimmy Eat World - The same version as the one labeled "Green Day". Even more obviously not this band.

Sadly, you'll notice that "Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl" are not spelled correctly together until the fourth entry from the bottom. Figures.