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so who would you like to hear doing what?!!

prince ---> tim buckley's "i had a talk with my woman"
lightning bolt ---> nurse with wound's "two shaves and a shine"
destiny's child ---> scritti's "wood beez"
dem 2 ---> the special's "ghost town"
superpitcher ---> stevie wonder's "heaven help us all"
linkin park ---> wire's "sand in my joints"
elephant man ---> "i heard it through the grapevine" (slits version)
n'sync & nelly (as produced by the neptunes) ---> new order's "regret"
the dead c ---> throbbing gristle's "heathen earth"
tweet ---> "warm leatherette" (grace jones version)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

(apologies to s. trife for jacking his posting style.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

That's actually a very good list. Since, you know, most lists like this are just sort of random. Except those mostly seem pretty spot-on and interesting, especially the Linkin Park and Tweet ones.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

(oh, and unlike s. trife, yr supposed to list yr own choices for dream covers here too.

and thanks n.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

no no sugababes should do 'warm leatherette.' or 'mind your own business.'

pink -> '18 and life' by skid row
andrew wk -> 'be my baby' or some other wall of sound track
justin timberlake -> 'the sweetest girl' by scritti politti

― maura (maura), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I wrote this before Maura damnit--

Adult. / Delta 5's "Mind Your Own Business"
Nico / Honeybunch's "Mine Your Own Business"
Felix + Miss Kittin / Specials' "Do the Dog"
Tool / Fischerspooner's "Emerge"
Death Cab for Cutie / Smokey Robinson's "When Sundown Comes"
Ludacris w/ Prefuse 73 / Family Fodder's "Dinosaur Sex"
Movietone / Boo Radley's "Does this Hurt?"
Morr artists / Slowdive and get it right this time

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

(I like doing this because my immediate impulse is "oh oh I can't wait to go home and try to start putting together a song that actually sounds like e.g. Movietone doing 'Does this Hurt.'")

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Primus doing "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." That's something that I would have liked to have heard in 1993, at least.

― paul cox, Friday, 30 August 2002 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

some more:

clinic ---> aerosmith's "sweet emotion"
elton john ---> magazine's "you never knew me"
masters at work ---> talking heads' "crosseyed and painless"
markus guentener ---> brian eno's "by this river"
tlc ---> althea & donna's "uptown top ranking"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Tricky circa 1995 --> "Gimme Shelter"
Tom Waits --> "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
Ike & Tina Turner --> "The Magnificent Romeo"
Sonic Youth --> "Intro Introspection"
No Doubt --> "Special Child"

Genius call on Pink, Maura

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

oops...

Tricky circa 1995 --> the Rolling Stones's "Gimme Shelter"
Tom Waits --> the White Stripes's "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
Ike & Tina Turner --> Soulwax's "The Magnificent Romeo"
Sonic Youth --> Osymyso's "Intro Introspection"
No Doubt --> Braces Tower's "Special Child"

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and todd edwards ---> mary j blige's "real love"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Basement Jaxx --> Guns 'n' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle"
The Bellrays --> Destiny's Child's "Survivor"
Super Furry Animals --> Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's "Who Are the Brain Police?"
The Hives --> Crime's "Baby You're So Repulsive"
Beck --> David Bowie's "Golden Years"
Daft Punk --> Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (with vocoder!)
Air --> Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'"
Squarepusher --> Lalo Schifrin's "Bullitt (Title Theme)"

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 30 August 2002 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, Jess! plus:

Heavenly --> Caetano Veloso's "Maria Bethania"
Caetano Veloso --> Heavenly's "Our Love is Heavenly"

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Christina Aguilera-"Dark Lady"/"Gypsys, Tramps & Theives"/"Half Breed" Cher megamix
Guns 'n Roses- Bowie's "John, I'm Only Dancing"
Justin Timberlake-Paul Jones "Free Me"
Atomic Kitten-the Polecats "Make a Circuit with Me"

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Albert Ayler ---> Kraftwerk's "Komotmelodies" and "Ohm Sweet Ohm"
Andrew W.K. ---> Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" (he already did kinda w/ "Party 'til You Puke" but should make is official.)

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Christina Aguilera-"Dark Lady"/"Gypsys, Tramps & Theives"/"Half Breed" Cher megamix

it would save her [music] career! (as would a decent haircut and an actual outfit!)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Whitney Houston --> The Moldy Peaches' "Who's Got the Crack" (sorry...)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

system of a down ---> rites of spring's "end on end"
queens of the stone age ---> can's "halleuwah" and steely dan's "black friday" (the lyrics from one over the music from the other, or vice versa, or mash em up.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Sleater-Kinney --> Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It"
White Stripes --> Alice Cooper's "School's Out"
Cornershop --> Lynnrd Skynnrd's "Saturday Night Special"

(now I'm just getting weird)

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 30 August 2002 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess--what a coincidence....

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom Waits -> Beach Boys' "God Only Knows"
Stereolab -> ELO/Olivia Newton-John's "Xanadu"
Boredoms -> Zep's "When the Levee Breaks"
Bjork w/Can -> Radiohead's "Pyramid Song"
XTC remixed by Autechre -> Tomorrow's "My White Bicycle"

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

The Stones of '72 --> Mazzy Star "Blue Flower"
Stargunn --> Talking Heads "Road To Nowhere"
Liquid Liquid --> My Bloody Valentine "Glider"
Red Hot Chili Peppers --> Q-Tip "Breathe & Stop"
and anyone today, any artist with any guts, to cover (and update the lyrics to "Bush Killa" by Paris.

KORITFW,

DJ Sonic Jesus

― DJ Sonic Jesus, Friday, 30 August 2002 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

creepy!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

heh, that was directed at matos, although some of dom's choices are creepy too.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess Harvell --> Matos's piece in Baltimore City Paper last week

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

say...could writers cover other writers' work? like Hemingway writing The Great Gatsby or Chuck Eddy writing Mystery Train? (Shakespeare doesn't count, everybody covers him. Bible, too.)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Tricky circa 1995 --> the Rolling Stones's "Gimme Shelter" - Ouch! this could have been brilliant! I guess it's assumed Martina would do the back vocals... "Rape, murdeeeeeeeeeer!"

― Simon, Friday, 30 August 2002 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

haha matos you bastard.

flying saucer attack ---> bonnie prince billy's "death to everyone"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Whitney Houston ---> Rufus Wainwright's "Imaginary Love"

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Rufus Wainwright --> Patsy Cline's "Why Can't He Be You"
Mary J. Blige --> Dub Narcotic Sound System featuring Lois's "Ship to Shore"

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Pink--->Pat Benatar's "Hell Is For Children"
The Hives--->the Pork Dukes "Bend & Flush"
Gene Pitney--->the Rolling Stones "I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys"

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

James Brown c. 1967 --> the Rapture's "House of Jealous Lovers"
Britney Spears --> Marianne Faithfull's "Why'd Ya Do It"
War --> Loose Joints's "Tell You (Today)"

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

the dirty three ---> arvo parts' "cantus in memory of benjamin britten"

alternately

bernhard gunter ---> arvo parts' "fur alina"

alternately again

fennesz ---> arvo parts' "tabula rasa"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

vanessa carlton ---> sigur ros' "staralfur" (they're practically handing it to her!)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Sonic Youth --> "Magic Man"

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Stephen Malkmus --> Steely Dan's "Aja"
Beck --> Dylan's "When He Returns"
Sugababes --> The Damned's "I Just Can't Be Happy Today"
Sonic Youth (w/ Kim on vocals) --> Syd Barrett's "Dark Globe"
Liars --> Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood's "Some Velvet Morning"
Liars --> Madonna's "Music"
The Ramones (ha ha, right) --> ELO's "Don't Bring Me Down"

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and todd edwards ---> mary j blige's "real love"

I saw M. Doughty do an acoustic cover of this in 1994.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

The Breeders--->Roseanne Cash's "Seven Year Ache"
Everything But the Girl--->Cristina's "He Dines Out On Death"
New Pornographers--->Andy Pratt's "Avenging Annie"
Nina Hagen--->Ethel Merman's "Rose's Turn" from Gypsy

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

say...could writers cover other writers' work? like Hemingway writing The Great Gatsby or Chuck Eddy writing Mystery Train? (Shakespeare doesn't count, everybody covers him. Bible, too.)

I know you're not crazy about McSweeny's, Matos, but one of their issues had "covers" as a theme & I think Rick Moody covered a Chekov story ("The Egg" - wasn't that Chekov?)

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Jimi Hendrix --> Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale"

Neil Young/Joni Mitchell (both on acoustic guitar w/Jaco on upright bass) --> Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell's "River Deep Mountain High"

ZZtop circa Tres Hombres --> Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus"

Kraftwerk --> Aerosmith's "Lord of the Thighs"

― earlnash, Friday, 30 August 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I know you're not crazy about McSweeny's, Matos, but one of their issues had "covers" as a theme & I think Rick Moody covered a Chekov story ("The Egg" - wasn't that Chekov?)

I would consider any interpretation of a classic story (Hamlet, Sisyphus, etc.) a "cover."

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

how do you know I'm not crazy about McSweeney's?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Mariah Carey -- Ween's "Poop Ship Destroyer"
Sublime -- Sade's "Stronger Than Pride"
Jim Kweskin Jug Band -- Beck's "Painted Eyelids"
Songs:Ohia -- Eno's "Third Uncle"
Electric Prunes ala David Axelrod -- "Inna Godda Da Vidda"
Barkmarket -- Wedding Present's "Daliance"

― christoff, Friday, 30 August 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

yes it had to disintegrate into pure stupidity eventually, didn't it?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

how do you know I'm not crazy about McSweeney's?

I thought you said something in a post once about "that smug clique at McSweeny's" or something like that. I remembered it because I like McSweeny's, most of the time.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Fugazi --> The Association's "Windy"
Low --> Sinead O'Connor's "Thank You for Hearing Me"
which actually is a dream cover, that is, they did cover it in a dream I actually had, and it sounded terrific.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

The Wallflowers -- "I Started A Joke"

― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Dettinger feat. Kelis --> Orbital's "Halycon +On +On"
Ludacris --> The Steets' "Too Much Brandy"
Boards of Canada --> The Bangles' "Eternal Flame"
Aaliyah --> VU's "Candy Says
(Insert City You Live in Here)'s Boy's Choir --> Aphex Twin's "Girl/Boy Song"
Spiritualized - Outkast's "Ms. Jackson"

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"halycon" and "streets" not "steets" heh
Radiohead --> The Human League's "Seconds"

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Mike Watt --> the entirety of The Basement Tapes.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

(arggh halcyon)

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Daft Punk --> Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (with vocoder!)

I ph34r this would sound much like the Moog Cookbook version of Smells Like Teen Spirit

― Zac, The Black Power Ranger (vicc13), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

The Cure-->Set 2 of Grateful Dead live @ Cornell 5/77

The Hives-->Motley Crue 'Live Wire' which would be changed to 'Hive Wire'

Devo-->Destiny's Child 'So Good'

Linkin Park-->2liveCrew 'Hey We Want Some Pussy'

Sinead O'conner-->Aqua 'Barbie Girl'

Melvins-->side a of On the Corner

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 30 August 2002 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

"Hive Wire" would be incredible, Chaki!

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 30 August 2002 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Add N to X: Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages"
Neko Case: Misfit's "Hybrid Moments" or "Angelfuck"
Andrew WK doin' the girl groop: Ronettes' "You Came You Saw You Conquered"
Christina Aguilera: Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love"
NSync: Roxy Music's "Do the Strand" (various house remixes)

man, this is fuuun.

― g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 30 August 2002 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The Smashing Pumpkins doing Creedence's "Have You Ever Seen the Rain"
Any punk band doing a punk cover of "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"

― My name is Kenny, Friday, 30 August 2002 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Christina Aguilera: Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love"

Uh, no.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Ladytron --> “Don’t You Want Me” by Human League
The Boredoms --> “Breath” by Pink Floyd
Neko Case --> “Winter” by Tori Amos (self-indulgence)=0)

― Juan Marquez, Friday, 30 August 2002 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

System of a Down -> Capt. Beefheart's "Pachuco Cadaver"
Mouse on Mars -> Depeche Mode's "Get the Balance Right"
Bob Dylan -> Burt Bacharach's "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (actually, story is that Burt offered this song to Bob in the late 60s but he turned it down - it would be fun to hear him do it now)

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 30 August 2002 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Ladytron --> “Don’t You Want Me” by Human League

Too obivous, sorry.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 30 August 2002 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I spent hours playing this game before. We came up with Oxide and Neutrino covering Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out With Him?", just ahead of Nickelback doing "Rubber Ball" by Cyrkle.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 30 August 2002 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll just mention that I've read a good few literary covers - for instance modern and updated versions of classic stories: Jane Smiley redid Lear in 1000 Acres, Alice Hoffman redid Wuthering Heights, Faust has been done several times (Marlowe, Goethe, Mann), and so on. And in movies we could call The Magnificent Seven and A Fistful Of Dollars covers of Kurosawa (Seven Samurai & Yojimbo), who of course in turn covered Shakespeare twice, in Throne Of Blood (Macbeth) and Ran (Lear again). I'd rather have covers like these than the practice of pretty straight anglophone remakes of continental successes.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 30 August 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

You're right, jody beth - christina aguilera covering the buzzcocks' - "ever fallen in love" would be just wrong - instead she should cover buzzcocks - "what do i get?" and britney should do "love you more"!! (except she should retitle it "love u more" obv!!)

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 30 August 2002 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

britney should do "love you more"!!

"Orgasm Addict"!

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah that would be good but you can't put a "u" or a "4" in that one!! i checked!! "orgasm addict 4 u" just sounds wrong!!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 30 August 2002 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Jimmy Eat World - "Roadrunner"
The Strokes - "Walkin on Sunshine" or The Small Faces' "Sha La La La Lee"

Nothing would be better than Maura's Pink suggestion though

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 30 August 2002 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

this is the best thread evah! i couldn't come up with anything! what does that mean?!?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 30 August 2002 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd like Luke Haines to cover a Suede song. Or Morrissey to do a Cure number... Like a rockabilly "Boys dont cry" or something... Maybe even turn "Just Like Heaven" into a grandiose ballad...

Gary Glitter could do the Stranglers' "Bring on the nubiles", but that would be, er, bad taste... I'm tired, sorry!

― Simon, Friday, 30 August 2002 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

guns n roses ---> "roadrunner"
beastie boys ---> "academy fight song"
fugazi ---> "get the party started"
andrew wk ---> "virginia plain"

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 30 August 2002 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

missy elliot - -> JD's Shes Lost Control

Britney w/ Neptunes - -> ESGs Moody

Luomo feat. Tweet - -> Donna Summers I Feel Love

Busta Ryhmes - -> Model 500s No UFOs

― edward (big E.D), Saturday, 31 August 2002 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Eminem ---> Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out With Him?"
The Streets ---> Squeeze's "Cool For Cats"
Tiga & Zyntherius ---> Spiritualized's "Electricity"
Sticky ft. Lady Stush ---> Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop" via Byron Lee's version
M. Mayer ---> The Cure's "Let's Go To Bed"
Tweet ---> Kate Bush's "The Sensual World"
Christina Aguilera - The Runaways' "Cherry Bomb"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 31 August 2002 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Cat Power --> Joe Jackson's "Different For Girls"
Erase Errata --> No Doubt's "I'm Just A Girl"
Henry Rollins --> No Doubt's "Spiderwebs"
John Vanderslice --> Nick Cave's "The Mercy Seat"
The Mekons --> Elvis Costello's entire Imperial Bedroom album

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 31 August 2002 03:46 (twenty-three years ago)

(Martin you forgot Lowry's Faust/Inferno megamix!)

Mogwai => DJ Shadow's "Stem/Long Stem"
EL-P => Talking Heads' "Mind"
Tricky c95 w/Tricky on vox => Björk's "Venus As A Boy"
'Nsync => Britney Spears' "I'm A Slave 4 U"
(NZ-specific bonus answers)
Shapeshifter w/P-Money => the Clean's "Point That Thing Somewhere Else"
Salmonella Dub => DLT/Che Fu's "Chains"
Deceptikonz => Blam Blam Blam's "There Is No Depression In New Zealand"
Cloudboy => Peking Man's "Room That Echoes"

― Ess Kay (esskay), Saturday, 31 August 2002 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

This is my favorite thread ever.

Destiny's Child -- XTC's "Dear God"
The Jesus and Mary Chain -- The Go-Go's "Our Lips Are Sealed"
Ray Charles and Toots Hibbert -- (played like a Professor Longhair boogie) The Maytals' "Pressure Drop"
Stereolab produced by Dr. Dre -- Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra's "You Only Live Twice" (James Bond theme)
Fleetwood Mac -- Low's "Sunflower"
The Jayhawks -- Alton Ellis's "Girl I've Got a Date"
Peter Gabriel and Youssou N'Dour -- "Hot in Herre"

I better stop now...

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 31 August 2002 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Kermit the Frog -- "O Night Divine"

― Aaron A., Saturday, 31 August 2002 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

you know, i actually put some thought into mine, people!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 August 2002 23:58 (twenty-three years ago)

that was mean. there's actually some really good ones on here.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 1 September 2002 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Destiny's Child -- XTC's "Dear God"
Oh dear! I can't stop thinking about this!!

I enjoy all the Christina Aguilera suggestions. ESPECIALLY "Ever Fallen in Love"! The correct answer, tho, is ANYTHING by Bob Dylan

David Bowie--Neutral Milk Hotel's "Ghost"
N.E.R.D.--Talking Heads' "Moon Rocks"

― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Sunday, 1 September 2002 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually some of these might suck, but be amusing...

Blood Brothers > Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence"/Run DMC's "Tricky"
Spiritualized > Low's "Starfire"
Shudder to Think > Bowie's "Lady Stardust"
Les Savy Fav > Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba"/Elastica's "Connection"
Daniel Johnston > Beach Boy's "God Only Knows"
Sloan > Zombies' "Care of Cell 44"
Shellac > Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again"
Lambchop > American Music Club's "Firefly"
Carole King > Bikini Kill's "Rebel Girl"

― wl, Sunday, 1 September 2002 04:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Cat Power -- On the Road Again
Mary Lou Lord -- (none)

― Aaron A., Sunday, 1 September 2002 04:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Love And Rockets > ELO's "Don't Bring Me Down"

Radiohead > Ramones' "Howling At The Moon"

Blue Oyster Cult > Avengers' "The Amerikan In Me"

Le Tigre > The Cars' "Shake It Up"

Depeche Mode > Black Sabbath's "Neon Knights"

Roxy Music > Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out With Him?"

Roy Montgomery > any Durutti Column song (or vice versa)

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Sunday, 1 September 2002 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Scott Walker --> Girl You'll Be A Women Soon

Jimmy Somerville--> 8 Ball

Joan Jett--> Tube Snake Boogie

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 1 September 2002 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh I Forgot

Happy Flowers--> Jesus Is Just Alright

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 1 September 2002 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Lou Reed & Moe Tucker duet--> I Wish I Were in Love Again (Rodgers & Hart)

I like the idea of the rockabilly Cure, more so the rockabilly cure, all artists should take it...

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 1 September 2002 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

some of these selections are way outdated, but:

bis: thompson twins' "lies"
neil hannon: abc's "the look of love"
young marble giants: roxy music's "avalon"
public enemy: fugazi's "burning too" or "reprovisional"
tom waits: beat happening's "gravedigger blues"
danielson famile: pixies' "bone machine"

― mike a, Sunday, 1 September 2002 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Christina Aguilera --> Jermaine Stewart's "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off"

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 2 September 2002 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Sonic Youth----> MBV's "Soon"

Prince----> The Cure's "The Same Deep Water as You"

― Brenya, Monday, 2 September 2002 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

The Strokes--->Snatch's "IRT"

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 2 September 2002 23:50 (twenty-three years ago)

akufen---> Bizarre Love Triangle

― edward (big E.D), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 02:56 (twenty-three years ago)

the fall -> conduit for sale!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 02:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The Mekons: "Tubthumping"

― mike a, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

broadcast "golden hair" (syd barrett)

― gygax!, Sunday, 20 October 2002 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

"Henry Rollins --> No Doubt's "Spiderwebs""

Just trying to imagine this is giving me a splitting headache.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 20 October 2002 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Back when Rothko were just three bassists I daydreamed about them doing a reverb-drenched slo-mo cover of Numan's "Cars" with vocals from Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. I know everyone here probably wants to kill me just for the thought but I'm still not entirely convinced that it was a bad idea, even after I was put off somewhat by To Rococo Rot (another obsession of mine at the time) releasing a dreary cover of it. Anyway, Rothko these days don't sound quite like I imagined it, so even I had to give up on the dream.

― Rebecca (reb), Sunday, 20 October 2002 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Today I was listening to Loveless and when "When You Sleep" came on, I couldn't stop imagining Prince singing it. And then I started clapping on the backbeat, and really wanted to dance.

― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Sunday, 20 October 2002 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

But now that I think about it, I'd really like to hear, say, Boys II Men or a similarly-minded vocal R&B group tackle it.

― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Sunday, 20 October 2002 23:25 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I think Prince doing it would be wonderful. Mira does a stripped-down, slightly slower version of it that's really wonderful, but your idea is far superior. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

tful282 => "flight of the bumblebee"

― gygax!, Monday, 21 October 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

hey Rebecca - I was having a very similar thought about covering Gary Numan's "Cars" myself, in the style of which you speak. Using a slide guitar for the descending keyboard bits... mmmm

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 21 October 2002 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

feverish hallucination/dream-due-to-illness spark of inspiration :

todd edwards => pet shop boys, "heart"

(around half of my previous choices on this thread are complete wtf?-esque - I've never heard EL-P, etc!)

(i haven't heard bodily functions or a chance to cut... but you could do an ambient, ultra-subdued body-sampling (well, life-support sampling, anyway) version of new order's "shellshock")

― Ess Kay (esskay), Monday, 5 May 2003 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Wilco-"Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell
Xtina-"Is It My Body?" by Alice Cooper

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 May 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

White Stripes-"Little Sister" by Elvis Presley

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 May 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

nick drake "at the chime of a city clock" by wayne wonder

― Peter M, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Weezer - "Digital Love"!!!!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 9 May 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

man my picks are so good

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 9 May 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

also my uber pick: andrew wk ---> "common people"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 9 May 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

That would be so great!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 10 May 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Foo Fighters/"Fight" and "Crackman" by Scream "Negitive Creep", "All Apologies", "Hairspray Queen"(I can't stand the way Kurt's voice sounds. I want to hear what it sounds like with Dave singing), and "Smells Like Teen Spirit"(I think they already did "...Teen Spirit". I just want to hear it) by Nirvana

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 10 May 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

That would be so great!

Stop hurting me in my heart.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 May 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The Flaming Lips - AC/DC: "Big Balls"
Radiohead - The Who: "Amazing Journey"
Tom Jones - Nine Inch Nails: "Closer"
Tiny Tim - Esquivel: "Mucha Muchacha"
Devo - Beck: "Devil's Haircut"
Orbital - "Theme to the Legend Of Zelda"
Sex Pistols - Debbie Reynolds: "Tammy"
Aphex Twin - Bjork: "Isobel"
Mindless Self Indulgence - Baha Men: "Who Let the Dogs Out"
Frank Sinatra - Ween: "Don't Shit Where you Eat"

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Saturday, 10 May 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I would love to hear George Jones do an album of classic soul ballads.

― Burr (Burr), Saturday, 10 May 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

great idea. Jones and Paycheck doing Arthur Alexander's 'You Better Move On' is killer, you can't tell who is singing what.

― rumple, Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

White Music-era XTC covering Yes' "I've Seen All Good People"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I still wanna see the White Stripes cover "Boys Don't Cry"

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete Townshend covers Mott the Hoople's All the Yound Dudes
Avril Lavigne covers AC/DC's Big Balls
Back Street Boys cover Led Zeppelin's Communication Breakdown
Moby covers Nashville Pussy's Go Motherfucker Go
Marilyn Manson covers No Doubt's I'm Just a Girl
Kiss covers Nancy Sinatra's (or whoever sang it) These Boots were Made for Walkin
The Corr's cover Judas Priest's Victim of Changes
The Cranberries cover Dead Kennedys Too Drunk to Fuck
Ice T covers Motorhead's The Ace of Spades
Sinead O'Connor covers the Buzzcocks Orgasm Addict
Lenny Kravitz covers Scorpions Virgin Killer
Rammstein covers Natalie Imbruglia'sTorn

― Roman (Roman), Monday, 19 May 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The Sisters of Mercy covering Vanilla Ice's "Ninja Rap"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 19 May 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Britney covers Mudhoney's "Touch Me I'm Sick"

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Monday, 19 May 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Contortions - Running Up That Hill

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Monday, 9 June 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

there is an ongoing movement to convince lightning bolt to do "Wipeout"

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 9 June 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Sleater-Kinney doing the Shangri-La's songbook.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Monday, 9 June 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

look at nabisco's great resolution to current luda-prefuse tensions - proposed in the oh two!

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 9 June 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I read once that Trey Anastasio tried to convince the rest of Phish to cover My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" for one of their Halloween complete-album cover shows, and they compromised on the Velvet Underground's "Loaded" instead.

Joan Jett--> Tube Snake Boogie

She already did "Tush" on "The Hit List."

But how do you top reality on a planet where Bob Dylan plays "Brown Sugar" and Dolly Parton sings "Stairway to Heaven"?

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Monday, 9 June 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The White Stripes need to cover absolutely anything by Billy Childish. Wait, that's too obvious. Alternatively, today I was singing some song thinking how much it sounded like a Childish song, but I can't remember it now. D'oh.

― Pitchblender, Monday, 9 June 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Yngwie Malmsteen covering Half Japanese's "Dream Date"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 9 June 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

the justus kohncke cover of "witchita lineman" is like something i'd come up with on one of my better days

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 9 June 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! If true, my respect for Anastasio grows greatly. What a missed opportunity.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"'Loveless' is the best album recorded in the '90s," Anastasio said. "History will tell, and 20 years from now that album will be considered a complete classic, while a lot of the albums that are real popular today will have been forgotten."

He also plays "Only Shallow" in his solo band.

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Janis Joplin-->Derek & the Dominos, "Layla"
Jimi Hendrix-->Prince, "Sign O' The Times"
Beatles-->Husker Du, "Makes No Sense At All"
Elvis Presley-->Bruce Springsteen, "Fire" (better late than never)
Andrew W.K.-->ABBA, "Mamma Mia"

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew WK needs to collaborate with Quintron for a Van Halen cover.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Sleater-Kinney doing the Shangri-La's songbook.
-- Charles McCain (deanmartinlive...), June 9th, 2003.

c.f. every lame, inaccurate and insulting review of us...

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Enya --> Anal Cunt, "Pottery's Gay"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Beta Band--> Stockholm Monsters, "Five O'Clock"

― Adam A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Nine Inch Nails doing the Police's "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"
(I can already hear Trent licking his chops for the "their Logic ties me up and Rrrrayyyyypppppeeeezzz me!" line.)
The only thing scarier than that would be Sting doing NIN covers. (Imagine Gordon Sumner positing the notion that he would like to fuck you like an animal and feel you from the inside.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 26 June 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Annie Lennox --> Wesley Willis's "They Threw Me Out Of Church"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 20 October 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

the Durutti Column ---> Kraftwerk "Autobahn"
Portishead ---> the Cure "One Hundred Years"
Tool ---> Japan "Sons Of Pioneers"

― Damian (Damian), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

A cover I actually did hear in a dream once:

Jimmy Saville --> "Put away" by the fall.

(It was on the black Columbia label, 'fact' fans)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz ---> Exploited Barmy Army (the Exploited)
Missy Elliott ---> Heresy (Nine Inch Nails)
Aaliyah ---> Only Shallow (MBV)
The Rapture ---> Our Love (Donna Summer)
The Prodigy circa 93 ---> Throw Ya Gunz (Onyx)
The Postal Service ---> Waterfalls (TLC)
Rancid ---> Get Busy (Sean Paul)

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Primus doing "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." That's something that I would have liked to have heard in 1993, at least.
-- paul cox (pau...), August 30th, 2002 12:05 PM.

actually...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.blankandjones.de/aforest/

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Bjork covers Ween's "Pork Roll Egg & Cheese"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

the Strokes ---> Eno "Third Uncle" à la Bauhaus
The Bauhaus version of the song has that Strokes shuffle to it, and it's not that much of a stretch to imagine Julian Casablancas deadpanning "there were tins, there was pork, there were legs, there were sharks" or whatever the words are.

― Schwingung (Damian), Thursday, 27 November 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The Stereophonics ---> Missy Elliot's "Get Ur Freak On"!!!!!
Kraftwerk ---> Adam and the Ants "Kings of the Wild Frontier"!!!!!!
Excrementory Grindfucker ---> Clive Dunn's "Grandad"!!!!!
Radiohead ---> Ultravox "The Thin Wall"!!!! (Well, it'd be interesting, anyway!!!!!)
Andrew WK ---> Dizzee Rascall "Fix Up Look Sharp"!!!!!!
Michael Jackson ---> Thin Lizzy "Don't Believe A Word"!!!!!!!
The Stereophonics ---> Tangerine Dream "Rubycon pt 1"!!!!! (At least it'll give Kelly's voice a rest!!!!!!)
Erm, I'm out of ideas!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Thursday, 27 November 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

James Brown circa '67 ---> Bob Dylan, "Ballad of a Thin Man" (Making it something like "Prisoner of Love." He could've changed Mr. Jones to Mrs. Jones, too.)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Adult. – Die Matrosen by Lilliput
Ladytron – Son Of My Father by Chicory Tip

― coco, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

dsddino i kiss you.

coco those are pretty good too.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i would still pay hundreds of dollars to hear any of mine.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Wut i dont understand is what the first name is for. Like in
The Stereophonics ---> Missy Elliot's "Get Ur Freak On"!!!!!
What has the srereofoniks got 2 do with missy?

― Rolci (Rolci), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

have a look at the title of the thread - then have a wee think about it

― coco, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

yea, i c. then britney spears - numb

― Rolci (Rolci), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I would have like to hear Joy Divison covering "Hero" by Neu! Tell me that would not be totally awesome.

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Thursday, 24 June 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It would certainly be quite surprising ...

― coco, Thursday, 24 June 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Girls Aloud- "On A Rope" by Rocket From The Crypt.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

any lounge singer - "Hit 'Em Up"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Jane's Addiction - "Sweet Jane". It's appropriate.

Or did they already do it?

― Nowell, Friday, 3 September 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

oy my poor little thread

christ dom's last one is good tho

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 4 September 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah. Your poor little thread.

― Nowell, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Jimmie Dale Gilmore covering Alejandro Escovedo's "Rhapsody"

Matthew Sweet covering The Alan Parsons Project's "Don't Answer Me"

The Sisters Of Mercy covering Guns 'N' Roses' "You Could Be Mine"

Alejandro Escovedo covering Night Ranger's "Don't Tell Me You Love Me" (live, of course)

Bob Dylan covering Dire Straits' "Romeo And Juliet"

The Cult covering Golden Earring's "Twilight Zone"

― Edward Bax, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Wow, I was pretty fucking weird two and a half years ago. I have since refined my desire to hear a discofied cover of "Welcome to the Jungle" done completely a'la Gamble/Huff. That Slash echo-chamber guitar intro would sound murderous as an R&B string section.

I have also decided (thanks to a reminder of said song's existence via VH1 Classic) that The Alan Parsons Project's "Don't Answer Me" needs to be covered by the Beta Band as a proper farewell single.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

What I want to hear:

Carole King > Todd Rundgren's "I Saw the Light"

Destiny's Child > Steely Dan's "Show Biz Kids"

Franz Ferdinand > Wings' "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

brick layer cake > kiss's "lick it up"

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

tall dwarfs ---> edgar broughton band's "aphrodite"
comets on fire ----> fraction's "eye of the hurricane"

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Others I'd like to hear:

Fiona Apple > "Mr. Bojangles"

Marilyn Manson > "Pop Muzik"

Natalie Merchant > "Road to Nowhere"

Courtney Love and Billy Corgan > "Whenever I Call You 'Friend'"

Nina Simone > Roberta Flack's "Feel Like Makin' Love"

Terence Trent D'Arby > "When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You" (or, indeed, the entire Here, My Dear album)

Alison Moyet > "Softly Whispering I Love You" or Dusty Springfield's "Just a Little Lovin'"

Three Dog Night > Bowie's "Fame" (imagine harmonies on this)

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Joy Division - "Always On My Mind"
Janis Joplin - "You Can't Always Get What What You Want"

― Ben Dot (1977), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

R. Kelly, "Shower the People"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty sure I answered this on another thread, but once again: I'd LLUUVV to hear My Bloody Valentine cover "Stay Awhile" by The Bells. Or if that's too obscure,..."Seasons In The Sun"! (But actually that'd be better suited to a Jesus & Mary Chain interpretation.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

britney covers:
kylie "some kind of a bliss"
debbie gibson "shake your love"
tiffany "radio romance"
mandy moore "candy"
britt ekland "do it to me once more with feeling"
donna summer "love to love you baby"
whiney houston " i wanna dance with somebody"
sam fox "just one night"
sabrina "boys" (just for the video)

― spitney brears, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i know i've posted this somewhere before but i wanna hear the
mutt lange project
def leppard sings shania/corrs/bryan adams.
corrs sing def leppard/shania/bryan adams.
bryan adams sing corrs/def leppard/shania twain.
shania twain sings bryan adams/corrs/def leppard.

― andrea leppard, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Terence Trent D'Arby

prince "purple rain" , "rock and roll is alive"
michael jackson "ben","man in the mirror"
stevie wonder "lately"," overjoyed"
smokey robinson "being with you","you better shop around"
lionel ritchie "hello","dancing on the ceiling"

― nogers relson, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

Kate Bush -- "Little Bunny Foo-Foo"

― Nguyễn Phúc Bích (Eisbaer), Saturday, 12 March 2011 17:14 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

My dream is that the Drive-By Truckers drop "People Who Died" from their set and start ending shows with Ozzy Osbourne's "Goodbye to Romance."

Also, Pink covering "18 and Life" is some kinda brilliant.

― deusner ex machina, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:41 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

John Cale -> Pete Townshend's "Let My Love Open the Door" (solo piano performance in the style of Fragments of a Rainy Season)

and John Cale -> Bette Davis Eyes (same backing track as Kim Carnes's version. I really just want to hear him deliver the line "all the boys think she's a spy" with all the snideness he can muster)

― naadje draadje (unregistered), Friday, 18 January 2013 19:17 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Neko -> "Tears of a Clown", "Send in the Clowns", "Cathy's Clown", "Stuck in the Middle with You"

― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Monday, 19 August 2013 02:03 (twelve years ago)

Phil Collins --> "Love Lockdown"
Beyonce --> "Hope There's Someone"
Harry Nilsson --> "Innocent When You Dream"
Terence Trent D'Arby --> "Ring My Bell"
Queen --> "We Are Young"
Grace Jones --> "Closer"
Roy Orbison --> The Cars' "Drive"

― vmajestic, Monday, 19 August 2013 02:55 (twelve years ago)

tonetta --> the spinners' "it's a shame"
cardiacs --> abba's "does your mother know"

― Stupor Fly, Monday, 19 August 2013 20:36 (twelve years ago)

80's-era butthole surfers - bay city rollers "saturday night"

― Stupor Fly, Monday, 19 August 2013 20:40 (twelve years ago)

jandek - the cars "good times roll" or "moving in stereo"

― Stupor Fly, Monday, 19 August 2013 20:47 (twelve years ago)

A cover I actually did hear in a dream once:
Jimmy Saville --> "Put away" by the fall.
(It was on the black Columbia label, 'fact' fans)
― Mark G (Mark G), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 07:46 (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

".. And now they're putting me away, but I'll be back one day"

― Mark G, Monday, 19 August 2013 22:51 (twelve years ago)

Air --> "Planet Caravan"
Cocteau Twins --> "Scarborough Fair"
Bob Dylan --> REM's "Drive"

― vmajestic, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 00:32 (twelve years ago)

New Pornographers --> Gowan's "Strange Animal"

― MarkoP, Thursday, 22 August 2013 15:30 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

The Cure - George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby"

― Stupor Fly, Monday, 16 September 2013 21:05 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

i picked this covers thread to revive because it had the most exuberant title but this is essentially a language question

if you have a bunch of covers of the same band performed/recorded by different groups of people
that is a
a. covers project
b. cover project
c. something else
d. shut up

― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:28 (ten years ago)

Tribute album, traditionally, I'd thought?

My number one dream cover with a bullet: "Ghostbusters" by the B-52s.

― A Whizzer, A Poo Star (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:39 (ten years ago)

yeah i was thinking that too
can anyone confirm!?

― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:40 (ten years ago)

Bordoms -> The White Album

Really just any Boredoms doing The Beatles will do!

I always thought just about any contemporary country dude could have a huge hit with the Alarm's "Sold Me Down the River."

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 March 2015 16:53 (ten years ago)

two years pass...

I was humming Cotton Eyed Joe to myself and I suddenly started imagining what it would sound like if it were covered by the Chromatics at half-pace. It sounds unironicallly beautiful.

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 01:52 (eight years ago)

cursed post

― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 01:59 (eight years ago)

lol

― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 18:39 (eight years ago)

The Monkees (w/Dolenz singing) doing "I'm Writing A Novel" by Father John Misty

― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 January 2018 07:10 (eight years ago)

five months pass...

I'd love to hear Jon Anderson of Yes do a prog cover of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHAHgjL0YzQ

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 14 July 2018 23:02 (seven years ago)

Randomly dreamt that the Manic Street Preachers did "The Tide Is High" in a rocked-up version - though a song about sea levels might be a bit too political for them these days.

― sbahnhof, Saturday, 21 July 2018 05:29 (seven years ago)

three years pass...

Rolling Stones covering Denim’s “Bubblehead”

― brimstead, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:10 (three years ago)

nine months pass...

Lou Reed covering Neil Young's "Lookout Joe"

― BrianB, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 23:09 (two years ago)

Sloan (Jay Ferguson on lead vox) covering Jay Ferguson's "Thunder Island"

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 23:33 (two years ago)

Neil Young circa "Harvest" doing Eddie Money's "Two Tickets to Paradise" at half tempo

― budo jeru, Thursday, 2 March 2023 00:41 (two years ago)

two I've literally heard in my head for years:

Jessica Pratt doing Olivia Newton-John's "Love Song"

Julian Casablancas doing Yukihiro Takahashi's "Drip Dry Eyes"

oh and while we're at it...a whole album of Sky Ferreira doing Ariel Pink covers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odg5lHuwPf4

― anza808, Thursday, 2 March 2023 04:14 (two years ago)

two years pass...

kind would like hear LDR doing Neil Young’s “mellow my mind”

it already sounds sort of like “the greatest”

― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 May 2025 01:04 (eight months ago)

“kind of would”

― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 May 2025 01:05 (eight months ago)

“like to”. sorry, not all there atm apparently

― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 May 2025 01:05 (eight months ago)

Good Vibrations era Beach Boys doing Uncle John's Band

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 5 June 2025 01:02 (eight months ago)

Yeah that could be pretty damn cool

implied this on another thread recently but circa 1997 Portishesd doing “Black Sabbath”

― brimstead, Thursday, 5 June 2025 01:30 (eight months ago)

I don't think I've seen this thread before and I thought it was "dreams you had of bands doing covers"

I once dreamed that I saw Huggy Bear covering Crass' "Shaved Women" and it was AWESOME

― sleeve, Thursday, 5 June 2025 01:34 (eight months ago)

one month passes...

Blonde on Blonde era Dylan doing Raspberry Beret.
Around the World in a Day era Prince doing Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 9 July 2025 18:47 (seven months ago)

Beyonce doing "Vienna"

I always wanted to hear a sped-up, cheesy AF house banger version of Eurthymics' "Sweet Dreams". The generic-er the better. It feels like something that should exist, but I've never found one.

― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 9 July 2025 20:14 (seven months ago)

s/t era VU covering "a white shade of pale" (closet mix)

― budo jeru, Thursday, 10 July 2025 14:08 (seven months ago)

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