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I am making a mix for a friend (and likely a copy for myself) of good covers of Cure songs. Maybe ILM has heard some that I haven't. Go.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 31 July 2006 03:20 (twenty years ago)

And I pre-emptively veto Dinosaur Jr.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 31 July 2006 03:22 (twenty years ago)

There's been a couple of really good Spanish language covers over time but I can never remember the band names. One was this lovely flamenco-inspired revamp of "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep."

My two favorite covers are probably A Perfect Circle's live mashup of "Lovesong" with Ozzy's "Diary of a Madman" and Misery Loves Co.'s loud as hell take on "The Drowning Man," but there are others.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 03:30 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, no, it's Dino Jr's "Just Like Heaven" (which is better than the original, but not by much).

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 31 July 2006 04:00 (twenty years ago)

I think I've never heard a Cure cover I've been entirlely satisfied with, but Tricky's Lovecats is alright.

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Monday, 31 July 2006 07:08 (twenty years ago)

Nouvelle Vague - 'A Forest'

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:40 (twenty years ago)

for reference: a couple of Cure tribute albums here.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:05 (twenty years ago)

I have to agree with milo out of contrarianism

― Corny indie douchebag rockist hipster cumdrip faggot (xave), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:08 (twenty years ago)

whatever you do, stay far away from the Dismemberment Plan cover of "Close to Me". lands squarely in the "failed experiment" category.

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Funny how there aren't that many Cure covers around (apart from the Cleopatra tribute stuff)

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.plainsong.net/covers/Reprises.html

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:31 (twenty years ago)

This too

http://www.plainsong.net/covers/Tributes.html

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

Really like the EPIC doom/dirge pseudo-blackmetal version of "Siamese Twins" that closes (the vinyl version of) Ocean's recent Here Where Nothing Grows. Twenty-some minutes of frozen, melodic despair. Very faithful, really, to the feel of Pornography, if not its sound.

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:45 (twenty years ago)

I like 311's "Lovesong". Sorry.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:49 (twenty years ago)

I am deeply concerned.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:54 (twenty years ago)

justin timberlake - "like i love you"

;)

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Or Hollertronix mashing the music of "Close to You" with the vocals from "Drop It Like It's Hot." I'm stupid enough to still dig that.

There's a tune on Sufjan Stevens' Illinois where the quasi-serialist string section breaks into a note-perfect quote of "Close to You" for a couple bars. Can't for the life of me remember what song it is, though...

Oh, and "Close to You" gets dropped into Mutamassik's mix on the split DJ /rupture vs. Mutamassik" CD. Somewhere near the end...

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:59 (twenty years ago)

This is disappointing. I guess maybe I assumed there were more decent Cure covers than I thought.

I'd never heard Tricky's "Lovecats" before, though. It's nice.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:22 (twenty years ago)

I like "10:15 Saturday Night" by The Living End...

― willem -- (willem), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Covering teh Cure is a lot like covering Prince - nearly impossible at best.

I'm trying to OPO, but I think this is more like OP0.

― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 01:24 (twenty years ago)

I had Flux Flow Clan's "Fascination Street" on repeat for several weeks this summer.

― mikef (mfleming), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:19 (twenty years ago)

everything up through kiss me, kiss me, kiss me relies so much on Robert's voice.

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 07:02 (twenty years ago)

riton does a nice version of "killing an arab" and also check Victor Malloy doing "boy's don't cry" on tom middleton's cosmosonica covers compilation

― kevvy-k (kebino), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Dart - "A Few Hours After This"

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

I saw Tara Jane O'neil do 10:15 Saturday Night at a show and I thought it was great. I don't know if she ever recorded it, though.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:09 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

Well I wouldn't call it my OPO but the cover of "The Figurehead" by Nebelhexe on her new album is pretty good -- music's a near total xerox, some instrumental differences aside, but her singing style is notably different from Robert's.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 July 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Goldfinger's "Just Like Heaven" is pretty damn awesome pop punk.

― Trayce, Monday, 23 July 2007 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

Everything by The Essence.

― flowersdie, Monday, 23 July 2007 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hahah!

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2007 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

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