which songs SHOULD bands cover for charity/tribute albums?

personally i do like to see cover versions done as long as something different is done with it, taking it to some strange other place if possible - granted this rarely happens but its nice when it does...hard to explain why - the old 'pop eating itself' chestnut perhaps or the Warholesque approach of recycling, re-intepreting, re-inventing and repackaging something that was previously considered either ordinary/mundane or iconic and sacred and fucking around with it e.g. Kid 606 on 'Straight Outta Compton'

hop hoppers should have restraining orders on making cover records re: the phil collins catastrophe.

the 'freakbitchlickfly' missy cover album is also ver ver good.

btw, that flaming lips kylie cover is rubbish. when they did it live they had stupid ironic grins on their faces as if they had just had this genius idea where they take krap pop songs (cuz all chart motivated pop is krap regardless of it's quality) and make them 'bettah'. and everyone in the crowd was laughing and stuff.

do remixes count as covers?

It IS a crap version, completely sucks the life out of the original. But I don't think they were being smug or ironic, or taking the piss out of "Krap pop songs." Wayne actually spent about two minutes explaining to the crowd about what a cool song this was, and how he was sure many of us would hate it, but the band were definitely NOT taking the piss. You might say that he was forseeing criticisms such as your own, and trying to counteract them, but I think he seemed like he was genuinely re-assuring us of the cover's sincerity.

Unfortunately, said cover sounded dreadful. But still better than Travis's cover of Baby One More Time, which really does smack of "hey, lets play this song so that the indie kids can admit to liking it without feeling guilty!"

Or is it mocking pop?

My liking Husker Du covering Love Is All Around doesn't make me secretly heart the Mary Tyler Moore show.

no. not unless he lights a match.

Again, I dunno. If you hate the version, that's cool, but i still think they just wanted to put their own spin on a song they love.

Julio your a mind reader.

Flaming Lips should cover "Dear Mr. Jesus" by PowerSource, as DB once noted.

well, kylie's version sounds ridiculously sad and desperate to begin with and, rather than detract from this, the 'synthetic bounce' is an integral part of it.