S/D - Covers of Wire songs

I can't say if its classic or dud, coz my CD broke ages ago and i can't remember what is sounded lik :-(

I'm waiting for someone to cover "Kidney Bingoes" inna death metal stylee.

Search: MBV's cover of "Map Ref 41N 93W," Roy Montgomery's cover of "Used To."

Destroy: REM's cover of "Strange." Ruins what would have otherwise been a perfect side A of "Document."

Elastica and Menswear of course, instead of doing Wire covers they were Wire covers.

Search: Big Black - "Heartbeat", Yo La Tengo - "Too Late"

still, it's very good. i'd like to hear a bootleg of them doing it on their last tour with the Wir(e) boys themselves.

Sad or what? William Blake meets The Clash in my front room.

It's on the live Pig Pile videotape, but they left it off the Pig Pile album release - it frankly isn't that hot (that's probably why they omitted it). Stick with the superior studio version.

Anyway, search the 2 Wire tribute albums : "Whore" and "Dugga Dugga Dugga".

-- bimble (grippledybu...), April 30th, 2004.

..a bit like the modern lovers, i guess

So does my band.

-- bimble (grippledybu...), April 30th, 2004

pick up any of his pre-1980 material - especially the debut, the compilation 'beserkley years' or the 1977 live lp..

WIRE's "OUTDOOR MINER" TRIBUTE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW!

A Houseguest's Wish: Translations of Wire's 'Outdoor Miner' will be
released by Words On Music on November 9, 2004. The album is available for pre-order now exclusively through Words On Music with an estimated ship date of October 5, 2004. Visit our order page here: www.words-on-music.com/order.html

A Houseguest's Wish is Words On Music's 25th Anniversary tribute to the seminal WIRE song, "Outdoor Miner." Released in 1979 as a 7" single (and appearing in a more skeletal version on their Chairs Missing LP), fans and critics have long regarded Outdoor Miner as one of WIRE's finest moments - and one of their rare early excursions into unbridled, sugar coated pop.

Featured appearances on this tribute include:

An acoustic excursion by Swervedriver frontman Adam Franklin
Lush's dazzling and energetic 1991 recording
A buoyant pop rendition by Typewriter (Lucy Show singer Mark Bandola)
Flying Saucer Attack's fuzzed-out version from 1995
The Beach Boys harmony-laden rendering by Kick On The Floods- the new
project by For Stars singer Carlos Forster.

The Outdoor Miner single was poised to be WIRE's breakthrough song in
their native England in 1979 until the British Market Research Bureau,
compilers of the BBC charts, withdrew the single on allegations EMI had improperly hyped the single's sales. As a result, WIRE narrowly missed appearing on the influential Top Of The Pops television program, and remained a band with credible cult status but no hit records. On the Silver Anniversary of Outdoor Miner's release, Words On Music sets free this brilliant pop song once more through a full-length album tribute. Choosing one WIRE song for this project is particularly apt in light of the band's 1991 album The Drill - which contains nine reworkings of the title track.

Words On Music has assembled interpretations by 19 artists from five
countries (Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Canada, USA) into one
stunning and diverse collection - translating the song into versions
ranging from folk to punk.

Outdoor Miner's strange subject matter - that of the leaf-dwelling
serpentine miner insect - was once described by WIRE singer and bassist Graham Lewis as their 'least commercial lyric.' But by integrating such impenetrable words into what is otherwise an extremely hummable, catchy pop song, Outdoor Miner transcends niche, cult-song status: it is a fertile composition capable of metamorphosis.

A Houseguest's Wish - Full Track Listing:

1. Adam Franklin (UK, Swervedriver / Toshack Highway)
2. Titania (Canada, Resplendent Records)
3. Kick On The Floods (USA, For Stars singer Carlos Forster)
4. Timonium (USA, Pehr Records)
5. Polar (Spain, Jabalina Musica)
6. Typewriter (UK, Lucy Show singer Mark Bandola)
7. Fiel Garvie (UK, Words On Music)
8. Lush (UK, 4AD Records)
9. Experimental Aircraft (USA, Rollerderby Records)
10. above the orange trees (USA, Mudita Records)
11. Christian Kiefer (USA, Extreme Europe)
12. Flying Saucer Attack (UK, Domino Recording Company)
13. Boy Division (Germany)
14. Sharron Kraus (UK, Camera Obscura Records)
15. The Meeting Places (USA, Words On Music)
16. Laura Watling (USA, Shelflife Records)
17. Should (USA, Words On Music)
18. The Sems (USA, Audraglint Records)
19. Junetile (Canada, Ocean Music)

Full song sound samples: www.words-on-music.com/sounds.html

Order Words On Music CDs: www.words-on-music.com/order.html

Really? I think their cover of "The 15th" is great.

Bah, beaten again.

I finally gave in and bought the Whore compilation of Wire covers (wanted to hear the Band of Susans "Ahead" in full non-mp3 glory) and it really is pretty wonderful. Biggest surprise so far is how much I like Bark Psychosis' very weird take on 3 Girl Rhumba. Contrary to what was said above, a surprising number of these arguably improve on the original. MBV and Band of Susans definitely. Laika and Lush possibly...

_Whore_ is the only tribute album that I find worth listening to repeatedly. These artists take on Wire's genius is so varied and downright fun! Chris Connelly's "A Mutual Friend" is particularly fascinating.

I heard REM's version of Strange way before I ever heard anything by Wire and never realized it was a cover. When I finally picked up Pink Flag years later and Strange came on I was totally confused how a record from 1977 could have a cover of an REM song on it.

Yeah, REM's version of "Strange" was probably the first Wire song I ever heard without realizing it was a Wire song. "Eardrum Buzz" was the first Wire song I heard performed by Wire themselves (they played it on 120 Minutes or Postmodern MTV or whatever on pretty heavy rotation when it was current).

But for some reason, I never went back and checked out 1970s Wire until some point in the mid-90s, when I found the first three albums in the cassette bargain bin at Camelot for about $2 each. Mind. Blown.

That said, Mike Watt's cover of "The 15th" on WHORE is probably still my favorite Wire cover.

Saw the Feelies in Boston Saturday night and they did an amazing version of "Outdoor Miner" as an encore.

I'm gonna attempt to make a WHORE 2 based on some of the suggestions on this thread. Any other additions?

It's not very good at all, but I don't think anyone mentioned that Henry Rollins did 'Ex-Lion Tamer' under the name Henrietta Colins & The Wife-Beating Childhaters.

FWIW I disagree with the person who says that Flying Saucer Attack's version of Outdoor Miner is rubbish- it's a really good cover, FSA and Wire are a natural fit.

Looking for an ethereal/female version of "Heartbeat"?

Here you go:
http://soundcloud.com/sugarcane/gazelle-heartbeat

Trying to remember what Kiwi covers of Wire songs exist after hearing Arch Hill (neo-Flying Nun-esque) band Street Chant cover "Outdoor Miner":
http://thecorner.co.nz/2013/05/06/listen-to-street-chant-cover-wires-outdoor-miner/

There's Roy Montgomery's "Used To"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_htnvQmbEE

& Salad Boys (who backed David Kilgour last month) doing "Strange":
https://soundcloud.com/cheersbud/salad-boys-strange-wire-cover

I'm sure there's something really obvious I'm missing (or maybe it's that whole Pin Group/This Kind Of Punishment/etc axis sounded a lot like Wire in the first place, heh).

trembling blue stars 'kidney bingos' is really pretty

I had managed to suppress my memory of bogan icons Shihad doing "12XU" but for completion's sake:

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

Hey, based on this thread I compiled Whore 2 - apparently I'm not the first to do this according to Google. I didn't include anything from the "Houseguest's Wish" and "Drill Drill Drill" covers albums.

Band Of Susans - Too Late (Peel Session)
Boss Hog - 12XU
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - Mannequin
Deja Voodoo - Strange
Die Kreuzen - Pink Flag
Dykehouse - Map Ref. 41 Degrees N 93 Degrees W
Fischerspooner - The 15th
Gazelle Twin - Heartbeat
Kustomized - Surgeon's Girl
Lemonheads - Fragile
Low - Heartbeat
Roy Montgomery - Used To
Moose - Kidney Bingos
My Life Story - Outdoor Miner
New Bomb Turks - Mr. Suit
Red Zoo - 5/10
Henry Rollins - Ex-Lion Tamer
Spoke - Ahead
Spoon - Lowdown (live)
Therapy? - Reuters
This Mortal Coil - Not Me
This Mortal Coil - Alone

Other good versions of the same songs:
Ampere - Mr. Suit
Angry Angles - The 15th
Cops - Lowdown
Dive - Heartbeat
Lightning Seeds - Outdoor Miner
Minor Threat - 12XU
R.E.M. - Strange
Salem 66 - Fragile
Scrawl - Reuters
Soul Side - Ex-Lion Tamer
Yo La Tengo - Too Late

^ sub big black for something

Yeah, Big Black's "Heartbeat" is ok and all but I tried to find odd or different approaches to the same material.

boo, play it louder

british "shoegaze" band moose put out a version of kidney bingos in 1998. S or D? I'll let you guess.

oh just seen it above