covers where anyone with half a record collection would know that it's not your song but it's apparent you're an oldies act and you're just basically covering anything that's vaguely in your frame of

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you know, like james brown doing "soul man" this summer at battery park.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The Who covering "Twist And Shout" on their first "farewell" tour in 1983.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Louie, Louie

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The Rolling Stones covering "Like A Rolling Stone" on some tour a couple years ago.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

someone i know called the middle-aged joe strummer "the eddie money of punk." i didn't believe him until i saw strummer perform and he covered "walk on the wild side" and "blitzkrieg bop."

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Louie, Louie

Is there such a thing as a ironic cover of "Louie Louie" anymore? I thought that Black Flag (and the Rhino "Louie Louie" comp) slammed the door on this years ago.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, post-Iggy it's kind of pointless

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't quite get my head around the idea of the Rolling Stones playing "Like a Rolling Stone" (i.e. "as if by a Rolling Stone", or Stones). They realized they could be THEIR OWN COVER BAND BY PLAYING SOMEONE ELSE'S MUSIC. They've uncovered the secret of Archie Bell! They've entered the fourth dimension! What if they play "Up, Up and Away"? What'll happen then?!

― jazz odysseus, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

they'll raise brian jones from the dead?

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Or Jerry Garcia, depending on what key they play it in!

― jazz odysseus, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought of another cover-band amalgamation, but I'm too lazy to look for the thread - "California Greatful Dead Raisin's".

― jazz odysseus, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Um... "Grateful", rather.

― jazz odysseus, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Or "Grapefruit".

― jazz odysseus, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

This question makes my cranium ache.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite example was Ronnie Spector singing "Goin' to the Chapel" after giving a short rant about how the song was supposed to be hers but a certain unnamed no-good-sonuvabitch-who-was-thankfully-no-longer-in-her-life-praise-God gave it to the goddam Dixie Cups instead. (OK, she didn't say goddam -- Ronnie's too classy for that -- but I heard it that way.)

Then she sang it and it was great.

― spittle (spittle), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

(sorry, I mean "Chapel of Love"...)

― spittle (spittle), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Joe Strummer was doing Blitzkrieg Bop in 1978. Is a 25-year-old an "oldies act"?

― christopher b (kit brash), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Jerry Lee Lewis has always done covers of his competitors songs. By "has always done" I mean between '57 and maybe '75.
He did "Jailhouse Rock" and "What'd I Say" just as examples.

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Joe Strummer was doing Blitzkrieg Bop in 1978. Is a 25-year-old an "oldies act"?

Haha well he was doing "I Fought the Law" too, so yes.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

jbr, that title + first post = greatest thing evah

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm. Strummer did Police And Thieves less than a year after the original came out... it's all so confusing!

― christopher b (kit brash), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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