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I don't think we've done this one yet... (Most unexpected cover song in a live set ever was close..)

Most amazing covers you've seen an artist do live.. Not including standard covers that the band is known for playing. (Fer instance, if you saw the Fall do "Victoria", so what. And try to keep the number of Yo La Tengo covers to a minimum.) Not just amazing because they were played, but amazing because of the performance/arrangement.

Mike Watt - Amnesty Report
Blake Babies - Let Me Roll It
The Negatives - Werewolves of London
Honorable mention:
The Pretenders - The Needle and the Damage Done

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

fantastic Dream Syndicate reference

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Great title, yeah. I never listened to it after I bought it, but great title...

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

S-K - Fortunate Son

Savonorla -- Build High

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Faith No More - Glory Box. Mike Patton singing 'I just wanna be a woman' in full-on crooner mode.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Vulgar Boatmen do a scorching version of "Foggy Notion" into "Roadrunner" and back.

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Dylan department:

white stripes - lovesick
neko case - buckets of rain

― Symplistic (shmuel), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

S-K: "The Promised Land"
Neil Finn: "There Is A Light That Will Never Go Out" (with Johnny Marr!). He also did "How Soon is Now."

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh heh...saw Mudhoney here in Toronto back in '91, and Mark Arm pretended that they were Rush throughout the entire show! He'd go "Here's a song called 'Tom Sawyer'!" and they'd play "Touch Me I'm Sick," then "...'By-Tor And The Snow Dog!'" and they played "In And Out Of Grace", etc. He maintained the facade right to the end. Amusing.

But as for ACTUAL covers...Paul Westerberg played a medley of (get this) "Daydream Believer" and Wreckless Eric's "The Whole Wide World."

And in Detroit in '87, The Pogues played "London Calling" because Joe Strummer was touring and playing guitar with them. That acoustic "London Calling" sounded GREAT, by the way.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 17 September 2004 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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