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Search: Johnny Cash-"The Mercy Seat", and most of his other really. He tops Cave on this on, and EC on "Hidden Shame", Beck on "Rowboat" and matches Bruce on "I'm On Fire".

Destroy:Billy Idol-"Heroin".

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/search.php?board=2
and type search. Don't mean to be rude but Im in a hurry.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

SEARCH: "The In-Crowd" as covered by Bryan Ferry. "Helter Skelter" as covered by Sioxsie & the Banshees

DESTROY: "Helter Skelter" as covered by Motley Crue, U2, Bon Jovi.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

SEARCH: --Echo & the Bunnymen, the Mighty Lemon Drops' and War's Paint It Black, the Feelies What Goes On, Fun Boy Three's Our Lips Are Sealed, UB40's Strange Fruit, Bauhaus' Third Uncle, the Pretenders' Stop Your Sobbing, Dylan's Mighty Quinn, Art Phag's Then I Kissed Her.

DESTROY: --GNR's Knockin' On Heaven's Door.

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Feelies What Goes On

What about the Feelies' "Paint it Black"?

― Jody Beth Rosen, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)

SEARCH: "It's Not Unusual" as covered by the Wedding Present, "Ceremony" as covered by Galaxie 500

DESTROY: "White Punks On Dope" as covered by Motley Crue.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

What about the Feelies' "Paint it Black"?

Their "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me and My Monkey" is great as well.

Destroy: Alex Chilton-"The Oogum Boogum Song", Pizzicato Five-"My Name Is Jack"

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

SEARCH - Alex Chilton - "Boogie Shoes"

― gygax!, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

destroy- gnr's whinnying, shrill cover of "sympathy for the devil"

― mike (ro)bott, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

chilton's 'with a girl like you' cover is good too but it'd be hard to ruin that song as long as the bahbahbaaahbaaaaahs are left intact.

― brian badword (badwords), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

search OR destroy: Roots Manuva 'Yellow Submarine'

― blueski, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

The Meatls - "Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box" has to be heard to be believed - literally!

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy: Alex Chilton-"The Oogum Boogum Song"

Search: His version of "Nature Boy."

― Jody Beth Rosen, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

and his version of "i will always love you"

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"femme fatale" ain't a bad one either (thanks in part to steve cropper)...

― gygax!, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

"Our Lips Are Sealed" is a neat one since it's not *exactly* a cover as Terry Hall of Fun Boy Three co-wrote it. It's more like a difference of opinion.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Dino Jr.-"Just Like Heaven" is pretty cool.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

search:
Frazier Chorus - Anarchy in the UK
Kathyrn Williams (is it?) - I dreamed I saw St Augustine

― jon (jon), Thursday, 10 October 2002 07:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Kim; right -- I guess the same could be said for Iggy's version of China Girl.

Jody; right, the Feelies version is great, too. You know, i think the Flamin' Groovies also have a version that's pretty slick.

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 10 October 2002 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

always liked the Scrawl cover of Cold-hearted snake

― H (Heruy), Thursday, 10 October 2002 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

SEARCH: Alison Statton & Spike's cover of "Bizarre Love Triangle"
DESTROY: Frente's cover of "Bizarre Love Triangle" (same arrangement minus the heart)

The Rainy Day compilation from the mid-80s is pretty good as well.

― Mike Appelstein (mike a), Thursday, 10 October 2002 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Never released commercially, and we'd had a bit of the white wine by the time it came on TV, so we might have imagined it, but: Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" performed by Des O'Connor with backing vocals by Bros, circa 1988. I never knew that our jaws could drop so far and for so long. It's safe to say it was rather different from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' take on the same song.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 11 October 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy: Eric Clapton's loungy, unplugged "Layla".

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 11 October 2002 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Yes' versions of "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Required", "America", and "Something's Coming"

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 11 October 2002 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

twenty-two years pass...

Was looking for a thread to revive where you could post suggestions for Chris L.'s cover polls. There are 30 million threads on ILM with "cover" in the title; waded through 10 or so screens, and I'll go with this one over "Worthwhile Covers" and "Underappreciated Covers."

Two favourites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-M6DZIMfyY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQt7St9FF10

― clemenza, Thursday, 24 July 2025 03:06 (two months ago)

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