Country Songs by non-country Artists

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please list your favorites and comment on how they compare to your favorite country songs by country artists. i will start with "Gone for Good" by The Shins.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 30 July 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite: The The's version of Hank's "I Saw the Light." Was surprised I liked it so much since I hate almost every Hank Williams song I've ever heard.

― Joseph McCombs, Friday, 30 July 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The entirety of the last Cardigans album, Long Gone Before Daylight.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 30 July 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stuck on You" by Lionel Richie

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 30 July 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Squeeze's "Labelled With Love" and Elvis Costello's "What a Good Year For The Roses" are both great, although the latter was a cover.

Also, "Hung Up On You" by Fountains Of Wayne.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Ween's 12 Golden Country Greats!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Fishbone's "Slow Bus Moving"!!!!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuzzy's cover of Neil Young's "Losin' End" -- to the extent that that song is country -- is pretty good.

Huey Lewis covers Hank Williams' "Honky Tonk Blues" on Sports. Generic bar-band sound on an otherwise decent 80s album.

Cordelia's Dad does a poppy-upbeat cover of "Delia." Which is really a folk song, but Johnny Cash covered it, so . . . (Actually, most of Cordelia's Dad's output consists of Americana/folk/country covers.)

― phil dennison, Friday, 30 July 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Huey Lewis covers Hank Williams' "Honky Tonk Blues" on Sports. Generic bar-band sound on an otherwise decent 80s album.

Thank you, Patrick Bateman.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Cornelius' one on Fantasma titled something like "Seashore/Dream" or something like that.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this said Courtney songs.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The Flaming Lips' "Thank You Jack White For The Fiberoptic Jesus That You Gave me"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 30 July 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I second the Fountains Of Wayne and Ween suggestions. Superchunk's "Phone Sex" has a very definite country feel. Both of Mike Ness' solo albums are fantastic, but Under the Influences Vol.II leans more heavily country than the first.

― Mark M, Friday, 30 July 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fall - Pinball Machine it' trucking brilliant!

― holojames (holojames), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread makes me feel
like jess but I will control
my revulsion. sigh.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

b2d otm

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Nirvana "In the Pines" - really good but terrible next to even the Bill Monroe version because Kurt's doing his constipated "I really mean it" voice

Stereolab "Tone Burst (Country)" - not a country song per se, this is the groop's "country version" of one of their own songs. "country" here means that the bass does a big major-key stride bassline, there's some shuffly percussion punched in, and the guitars have been set to "leslie reverb" mode. fine by me!

Whitney Houston "I Will Always Love You" - country comes full circle, but not as good as the original because of a common failing in this category: a bland accent

George Thorogood "Move it On Over" - the title track of the album is a joke song from black guys Hank Williams Sr hung out and gets redone by Thorogood, who uses its stretchable template to reimagine Chicago Blues as metal, and Williams as well

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Some ideas here:

HELP ME: I want to make a CDR of good country western songs (not necessarily by country artists)

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Britney Spears "I Love Rock and Roll"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything by Eddie Mitchell ever!!!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"one step up" by bruce springsteen

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Which brings us to Bob Dylan.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

dylan is cutting it close.

― AaronK (AaronK), Saturday, 31 July 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread should be alcazarized.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 31 July 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Stones - "Far Away Eyes," "Country Honk," "Sweet Virginia."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Velvet Underground - "Pale Blue Eyes"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Beatles - "Act Naturally"

― Burr (Burr), Sunday, 1 August 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The Left Banke - "What Do You Know"
Beatles - "I've Just Seen a Face," "Act Naturally," "Rocky Raccoon"
Sweetheart of the Rodeo shouldn't count, so I nominate all Byrds country songs from the preceding albums

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 1 August 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

oops, Burr just beat me

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 1 August 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

rem, "(don't go back to) rockville"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 1 August 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

frank zappa, "lonesome cowboy burt"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 1 August 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i would like to second the cardigans' brilliant last album 'long gone before daylight' (esp. 'for what it's worth', 'you're the storm')

also:
most of neil young's harvest (esp. 'heart of gold', 'out on the weekend')
morcheeba: 'part of the process' and 'blindfold'
beenie man also did that c&w single.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yes, and bubba sparxxx's amazing 'she tried', too.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

and:
graham coxon: 'baby, you're out of your mind'

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"Heart of Kentucky" and "The Johnny Cash Lawsuit Song" by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

One time I was a a decidedly country bar here in town (for purposes of dopesack scoring, obv), and some dj/dude running the trivia game (which we ruined by drunkenly shouting out the answers, apparently) somehow sandwiched Ween's "Japanese Cowboy" in between Faith Hill and Kenny Chesney and none of those rednecks up in there noticed a fucking thing.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 August 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"if only you were lonely" by the replacements. which would've made a fabulous split single with george jones' "ya ba da ba do."

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Pet Shop Boys - "You only tell me you love me when you're drunk"

― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

eight years pass...

John Yager - benson arizona

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2F0dHVZAm8

― meisenfek, Sunday, 6 January 2013 23:40 (thirteen years ago)

Pete Townshend's (utterly surprising) cover of the Flying Burrito Brothers' "Christine's Tune" at a 1997 solo show, prefaced by a hilarious story: hanging out with Gram Parsons in LA in 1969, Pete told Gram, "You're great, your group's great, and you're gonna be very successful," to which Gram replied, "Thanks Pete, 'cause we're starving."

Also, the Who's "Here For More," a credible Daltrey composition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyc_tVhqyn0

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 6 January 2013 23:55 (thirteen years ago)

The Flaming Lips - "At the Fish Fry and the Bigot's Drunk"

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 7 January 2013 01:13 (thirteen years ago)

Maybe I missed it, but how did we get this far into the thread without

The Ramones- "Questioningly"?

― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 7 January 2013 02:03 (thirteen years ago)

Replacements - Date to Church

― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 7 January 2013 05:02 (thirteen years ago)

...since I hate almost every Hank Williams song I've ever heard.
― Joseph McCombs, Friday, July 30, 2004 12:46 PM (8 years ago)

wtf

― "reading specialist" (Z S), Monday, 7 January 2013 05:20 (thirteen years ago)

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