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Cover versions that don't exist, but should

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Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.

11:21 / 11.09.04

For many years now I've harboured the ambition to make tons of money then blow the lot getting Leonard Cohen to cover Britney Spears' "Oops, I Did It Again". Man, I can hear it in my head, it'd be so perfect.

Then a couple of days ago, the subject of Laibach came up in conversation. All a friend of mine wanted to know was "have they covered Survivor's 'Eye Of The Tiger' yet? They just have to one day." And, y'know, he had a point. Can you imagine? How fucking bombastic would that be?
Unfortunately, they haven't.

Anyone else got any suggestions of songs that MUST be covered by certain bands, OR THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON???

Shrug: Butcher Boy

12:30 / 11.09.04

Atari Teenage Riot Feat Marilyn Manson and Missy Elliot
"Your Money (That's What I Want)" from the Empire Records sound track encase you haven't heard it.

Who Is Grumpy-Pants, Anyway?

18:50 / 11.09.04

Can't wait to hear Shaun Ryder and Shane McGowan's version of 'Call Me Al.'

22:47 / 11.09.04

1. Stoat -- Richard Thompson has done a remarkably Cohen-esque cover of "Oops, I Did It Again" on his 1000 years of pop music album (I don't know the album's name -- I've only heard him do it live-on-radio for "Fresh Air" on NPR, so if you're really curious, search their archive for the Richard Thompson interview).

2. I have long dreamed of the DEVO cover of The Doors' "Five to One"... I have it all worked out in my head, the weird, jerky bassline, the marching-footsteps- tripping-into-machinery drumbeat, that flat, ominous voice assuring us that, "We're gonna win. Yeah. We're taking over." Then either freaking out or else going dead silent for the "Come on!"

3. It just now occurred to me that a lot of fun covers come out of heavy, hard-rock acts doing bubbly pop songs... but if you reversed that, and had Christina Aguilera doing a full-on, slick, totally produced danceteria version of "Black Sabbath" (What is this... that stands before me?) it could very well ROCK.

01:23 / 12.09.04

I still think I'd really get a kick out of hearing Jonathan Richman sing Bikini Kill's 'Rebel Girl'..

Old dear. Gin. Problems
(prev. Alex's Grandma)

04:10 / 12.09.04

Show Me Heaven, as reimagined by the guys from Big Black.

Or The Fudge Punch by Wiseblood, covered by a world-weary Sabrina

06:44 / 12.09.04

The Human League's "Don't You Want Me Baby" as a duet between Rammstein and Nina Hagen.

Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.

10:52 / 12.09.04

Or The Fudge Punch by Wiseblood, covered by a world-weary Sabrina

Alex, are you in fact secretly me?

at the scarwash

20:06 / 12.09.04

I always wanted johnny cash to cover the pixies "I've been tired" before he died. Just imagine him singing, "Welll, don't gimme no shit, because..."

23:07 / 12.09.04

I'd have paid good money for him to cover it after he died.

Adam wages war on wack MCs

06:33 / 13.09.04

I'd love to hear Fish Fry by Big Black done ultra-cute punkpop style, by the Queers or the Muffs or something.

10:56 / 13.09.04

Vika and Linda Bull on Nine Inch Nails' "Bow Down Before the One you Serve"

Frenté on "Anarchy in the U.K."

I'm somewhat notorious for my renditions of Bobcat Goldthwait singing "Purple Haze" and Nick Cave covering the theme to Sesame Street.

10:04 / 14.09.04

I would love RL Burnside in full on folk blues mode (with none of that electronica/techno stuff that made him really popular going on) covering "Boilermaker" by Jesus Lizard.

14:26 / 14.09.04

I'd like to hear Groundkeeper Willie doing a Soundgarden tribute album.....

flufeemunk effluvia

03:21 / 15.09.04

A younger Pete Seeger doing "I am the Walrus".

04:01 / 15.09.04

I think Black Sabbath's 'Supernaught' should be remade as a sleazy house track. I was at a club once and imagined it fitting perfectly.

Hattie's Kitchen

13:18 / 15.09.04

"It's Raining Men" by Anne Widdecombe.
Or failing that...I would LOVE to hear Natacha Atlas have a crack at Roy Orbison's "It's Over" - it might just work, with lots of Arabesque percussion in the background.

Bots'wana Beast

15:41 / 15.09.04

1,000 Homo DJs version of 'Supernaut' isn't that far off.

17:03 / 15.09.04

The Fall - Theme from 'Are You Being Served?'

'Shoulder Pads' is already suspiciously close to the tune, and I can *so* hear MES barking and drawling the various floors and departments.

"Going UP-uh!"

Can - That mad '1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10' tune from Sesame Street

You know, that really discordant jazz-funk one which goes with the psychedelic pinball animation, female vocalists screeching the numbers. Should be done with Damo Suzuki and Malcolm Mooney on vocals.

17:24 / 15.09.04

"Onetwothree FOUR FIVE, sixseveneight NINE TEN, ELEVEN TWELVE!"

17:42 / 15.09.04

That's the one! Yes, 12, not 10. Mostly tuneful and poppy, only going haywire near the end (the middle eight? Heheh). Some interesting info on it HERE.

Vincennes: Bringing Sassy Back

10:25 / 16.09.04

Julee Cruise singing anything by Placebo, but specifically Bruise Pristine. Because since hearing her cover version of It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) I want to hear more ethereal weirdeness where previously there was angsty rock.

11:28 / 17.09.04

Richard Cheese = greatest cover artist EVER

Jack The Bodiless

14:31 / 17.09.04

Vika and Linda Bull on Nine Inch Nails' "Bow Down Before the One you Serve"

It's 'Head Like A Hole', you womble.

Einsturzende Neubauten neeeeeed to cover Kylie's 'Confide In Me' and Polly Harvey's 'Down By The Water'. With Blixa singing. As it is written, so shall it be done.

15:12 / 17.09.04

(Sob) It's all true, I'm a Womble.

Cookie Monster singing "Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon"

Old dear. Gin. Problems
(prev. Alex's Grandma)

08:40 / 18.09.04

Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball singing Call The Doctor by the Spacemen 3, during their inevitably doomed reunion tour -

" Come on now everyone, join in with the chorus... "

Old dear. Gin. Problems
(prev. Alex's Grandma)

08:48 / 18.09.04

Or Ted Rodgers from 321 doing The Bed, by Lou Reed.

17:25 / 19.09.04

Sadly Ted is gone !

How about Will Young covering anything by Elton john ...

I'll get me coat .

23:24 / 19.09.04

A bit obvious, perhaps, but I'd like to hear the 5,6,7,8s cover (Mr. Sandman) Bring Me a Dream.

03:26 / 20.09.04

Were not most of the principals dead, who wouldn't love to hear the Primus song "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" performed by the classic Charles Mingus quintet?

Listen to "Haitian Fight Song" again and tell me this doesn't make sense.

No star here laces

11:37 / 20.09.04

Saveloy, there is actually a hip hop track that samples the chorus to that sesame street song, and it is mighty. I think it was on the Nautilus label, but I'd have to check.

Otherwise, I'd love to hear Nate Dogg do "Folsom prison blues".

Except he'd be allowed to change "Reno" to "Long beach" or another Cali locale...

21:41 / 21.09.04

I want to hear Primus do a cover of "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite"

XXII:X:II = XXX

10:35 / 22.09.04

I think Sesame Street tunes are great fodder for covers. The Mr. T Experience pretty much OWNS "Up & Down":

Well I look up and see a birdie
Flying high and free
Well I look down and then the sidewalk
Is what I see
I look up and see the sky
I look down and see the ground
I look at you and sing a song about
Up and down

There's another cover of it by Cookie Mongoloid, but I don't like it nearly so much.

I think a cover of "Would You Like To Buy An O" by Lords of Acid would be AWESOME. Add in some typically orgasmic noises after the line "You can sing a pretty song with it like so" and you've got gold.

The theme to "Bobby's World" would be well-covered by Mr. Bungle, except that I fear they'd do so too literally. Same goes for Ween. These ultra-talented yet usually goofy musicians are greatly experimental with their own compositions, but covering others they don't deviate from what's established too well.

Now, a cover of the theme to "Transformers" by Black Sabbath a la "War Pigs" would just RULE.

/+,

lonely as a cloud...

16:17 / 22.09.04

I'd have loved to hear Johnny Cash cover They Might Be Giants' Birdhouse In Your Soul. Or Nirvana do Cities In Dust by Siouxsie & The Banshees. Two thinks I will never hear outside my head...

Old dear. Gin. Problems
(prev. Alex's Grandma)

17:36 / 22.09.04

I'd like to hear Primus doing a version of Why Don't You Kill Yourself by The Only Ones, if they followed the song to it's logical conclusion.

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