Unlikely Songs Which We Think Bryan Ferry Should Cover

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Arising from a domestic conversation yesterday where we debated the question of songs which we thought Byron Ferrari should cover in order to de-shred his cred, and then attempted to sing them in the Ferry trademark style. The ones we came up with included:

Dry Your Eyes
Firestarter
Parklife
Barbie Girl
Jilted John
I'm In The Mood For Dancing
Losing My Edge
Brimful Of Asha
Rock The Bells
Quiet Life ;-)

Can anyone think of any more (un)suitable ones for the foxhunting lounge lizard?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 7 March 2005 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Geno.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 7 March 2005 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurry Up Harry

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 7 March 2005 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Chewing Gum

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 7 March 2005 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

AC/DC - "Big Balls"

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 7 March 2005 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

'Down In The Tube Station At Midnight'

― wtin, Monday, 7 March 2005 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

heart of the sunrise
ladies of the road

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I can hear him singing the chorus to 'Last of the Famous International Playboys' with Eno synth noises in the background.

Also 'Misshapes', 'West End Girls' both in early Roxy style

― bham, Monday, 7 March 2005 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Marcello, this was the theme of a poll I made in my blog... results can be read here:

http://energei.blogspot.com/2004/02/bryan-ferry-appreciation-society.html

Though it's in spanish.

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"For the Love of Him"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

if you don't like the effects, don't produce the cause

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Typical Girls
Poptones
Motorhead
Realities Of War
Dachau Blues
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Ebeneezer Goode
Lazy Sunday Afternoon

It's rather a pity he didn't sing Meat Is Murder as a lullabye to that twat son of his too.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"sex&drugs&rocknroll" wd totally fit onto "these foolish things"!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck man, he should do a version of Fodderstompf as a duet with Basil Brush!

http://www.kiddstoys.co.uk/baslp.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

does the "c" in the numberplate stand for car? that is funny

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"We only wanted to be loved"
"Boom boom Mister Bryan!"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The Show
Galang

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish Roxy had done Poptones on their first album. But...oh yeah. Poptones wasn't out yet.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I reckon 'Holding Out For A Hero' would be nice.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"Straight Outta Compton"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

poptones wz always already out in roxy's dreams

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"I don't wanna know your name
Cause you don't look the same
The way you did before
OK you think you got a pretty face
But the rest of you is out of place
You looked all right before

Fox on the run
You screamed and everybody comes a-running
Take a run and hide yourself away
Fox on the run
F-foxy, foxy on the run and hideaway"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"You know you’re a cute little heartbreaker
Foxy
You know you’re a sweet little lovemaker
Foxy

I wanna take you home
I won’t do you no harm, no
You’ve got to be all mine, all mine
Ooh Foxy lady"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I would be furst in line to buy a copy of his cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Or first, even...

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i would be durst in line to buy his cover of "teenage dirtbag"

(thinkin esp.of the one-bar manzanera aerosmith-parody!!)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

But I would be qwurst in line for a copy of "Total Eclipse of the Heart."

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Danger! High Voltage

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I would burst in line to buy his tribute to GG Allin, and cover everyone around me in partly-digested food and partly-formed fecal matter when I did so - hurrah!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

but seryusly

Miles Iz Ded
Rebel Girl
I Want You To Want Me
Blue Flowers
Third Uncle
Do You Realize??
I Am A Scientist
Celebrated Summer
Obstacle 1
Birthday (Junior Boys)
Ignition - Remix
Back Seat Of My Jeep
Small Town
Bizarre Love Triangle
Another Girl, Another Planet
Wave Of Mutilation
Harden My Heart
Here Comes A Regular
Birthday (Sugarcubes)
Sugar On My Tongue (either Talking Heads or Trick Daddy)
Make Out Club
Heroin
The World Has Turned And Left Me Here
When Our Love Passed Out On The Couch
Maps
Sharp Dressed Man

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I think "Ignition" would be an exceptionally inspired cover choice. Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I Want It THAT Way
Oops I Did It Again
Whoomp There It Is (Addams Family version)
Head Like A Hole
Theme from Shaft!
Love to Love You Baby
Losing My Religion
100% (all you men are SLIME)
Bad Boy For Life
Crazy in Love

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

First of the Gang To Die
I Love You Golden Blue
MIchael

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rubber Pants: Bryan Ferry Sings the Arab on Radar Songbook"

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

career opportunities
london calling
rock the casbah
haha clash city rockers (this shd also be on "these foolish things")

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Meat is murder

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Police & Thieves
Love Like Blood
Jesus Build My Hotrod

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

wipe out

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Hank Mizzell's Jungle Rock!

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Also Reel 2 Real's 'I Like To Move It'.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Yr Body Is A Wonderland

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"South Side Of The Sky"
"Senses Working Overtime"
"Toronto Tontos"
"Edge Of Seventeen"
"Space Is Deep"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Jesus Entering from the Rear"
"I Kill Everything I Fuck"
"Ace of Spades"
"Beat on the Brat"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Ya
Hit Me Baby One More Time
I Will Always Love You
There's No-one Quite Like Grandma

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Blobby

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Be Sweet (Afghan Whigs)
One Man Guy
Stutter
Fuck and Run

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The Funky Gibbon

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

'Ullo John Got A New Motor?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Jocko Homo

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The Monster Mash.

"It was a graveyard smash."

Think about it, Darlin'.

― paul t., Monday, 7 March 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

you've all missed the obvious one: Alan Price's "Jarrow Song"

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"Prison Guard" by Smog

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 7 March 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. And "Number of the Beast".

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 7 March 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I gotta admit, the Monster Mash would be waay too classic.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 7 March 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, but Miccio takes it w/ ZZ's "Sharp Dressed Man" — Ferry doing that would be too fucking perfect. Really.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 7 March 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always wanted to hear him tackle Bruce Sprinsteen's "Sandy."

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Follow You, Follow Me"
"Red Barchetta"
"Just Like Heaven"
"Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"
"New York Groove"

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The Humpty Dance

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"High School Confidential"
"Everything Under the Sun"
"The Sun Always Shine on T.V."
"Down in the Park"
"She Sheila"
"Prince Charming"

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Queen - Flash
Neil Young - Saddle up the Palamino

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

either or all of "cash, money, hoes," "big pimpin'," and/or "can i get a ...".

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"Queen Of The Rodeo"
"Wuthering Heights"

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Or "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats & Dogs"... or "Life in a Northern Town". Even "Driving Away from Home (Jim's Tune)" or the Wild Swans' "Northern England", for something a bit more obscure.

― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

i would pay GOOD money if bryan ferry did a whole record of hip-hop covers -- shit, even just a whole record of nothing but jay-z covers.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

I can really imagine a cover of "ignition (remix"...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

'Mamas, don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys'

'Take This Job and Shove it'

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

i'm aghast that no one has mentioned Ini Kamoze's "Here Comes the Hotstepper"...it's a logical next-step for Ferry

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Sugar Walls

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Villalobos - What You Say Is More Than I Can Say

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

"Judy Is A Punk"
Lily Allen's "Smile"

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Shout" by Tears for Fears

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Hollywood - Cluster
Jack Hylton - happy go lucky you
Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
Lew Stone - Haunting Me
Joe Meek - I Hear A New World
Simian/Justice - We Are Your Friends vocals, over Deodato - Love Island music

I just had a horrible vision of Jarvis Cocker doing The Creator Has A Master Plan, so perhaps its best not to think about this any longer

― -- (688), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Scott Walker - "Cossacks Are"

― Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

Fischerspooner - Emerge
Morrissey - The National Front Disco
Adam And The Ants - Prince Charming

― zeus (zeus), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I can hear him do Judy is a Punk - Joey and Biryani swallow the same vowels

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

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

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 04:38 (fifteen years ago)

Gah!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 04:39 (fifteen years ago)

All of Born in the U.S.A..

― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 04:40 (fifteen years ago)

The Bird Dance
The Ketchup Song
The Jenka

And. most of all, this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX-52_P2HTw

― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 10:55 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXEcHbXb1bM

LOL Geir, I had no idea what The Jenka is. (In America, left kick 2x, right kick 2x, forward, back, forward forward forward is, as you probably know, The Bunny Hop.)

― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 16:39 (fifteen years ago)

Looks like you've picked a Norwegian act performing it (Jan Rohde is one of the although it was originally a Finnish dance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Z26tAB63c

― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 18:45 (fifteen years ago)

Nothing still beats the Singing Sheep though :)

― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 18:45 (fifteen years ago)

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