What songs should I cover? What songs would you cover?

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I was thinking this morning, I really want to record a covers album. So far the definites are Here I Go Again by Whitesnake and Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf, I need at least 10 more. Oh, and when I say cover version, I mean me intoning or screeching the lyrics over a backing of radio static, keyboard drones and bad guitar playing.

And yeah, what would you cover? or what songs have you covered?

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 19 January 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard the McCoy's "Hang on Snoopy" this morning, so I might do that one as well.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 19 January 2003 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Would somebody please record a grunge version of "Wouldn't it be Good" by Nik Kershaw. I am pretty certain this would be the best record ever made.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Sunday, 19 January 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

"Voyage Voyage" by Desireless. "Hot In Herre". "And Giraffe, Natural Enemies" by Oxes. "Tom's Diner".

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 19 January 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

jel the song is called "Hang On Sloopy" nut if you sang it as "Hang On Snoopy" it would be even bettah!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 19 January 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Stay tuned for the Brazen Hussies' take on the Scorpions' "In Trance" coming soon

― dave q, Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I just made a cover version of " Say it Isn't So " by Hall and Oates. Jel , why not cover "Fool to Believe " by the Doobie Brothers?

― Mike Hanle y, Sunday, 19 January 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

"End Of The World As We Know It" by REM, or "Eberneezer Goode" by the Shamen. A must for the radio static treatment.

― Al Ewing (Al Ewing), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

If I ever get around to forming a rock band, songs I've considered covering include "Another Rainy Night" by Queensryche and "Limelight" or "A Farewell to Kings" by Rush.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 19 January 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"Keeping the Dream Alive" by Munchener Freiheit. I think I've said that before.

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 19 January 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

when I say cover version, I mean me intoning or screeching the lyrics over a backing of radio static, keyboard drones and bad guitar playing.

The Andrew WK album is there for you, my friend.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 January 2003 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i am going to cover songs by the following: spacemen 3 / apartments / cannanes / severed heads / jandek / tinytown / snapper / mbv / and a whole stack of others i can't remember. it would be fun to be an obscuro jukebox

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 19 January 2003 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

vanessa carlton

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Sunday, 19 January 2003 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

the only time i ever played solo i ended on the suite from big star's sister lovers: night time/blue moon/take care

but a high school band played "i wanna destroy you" but never for anyone but ourselves.

― gygax!, Monday, 20 January 2003 07:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I would play RuPaul's Supermodel (You Better Work)... "Cover Girl!"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 January 2003 07:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"Moving in Stereo"

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 20 January 2003 09:08 (twenty-three years ago)

hot in herre

― liz p. (lizjoydiv), Monday, 20 January 2003 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I have always wanted to do a hair-metal version of "Dear Prudence".

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 20 January 2003 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

'White Wedding', 'Rebel Yell', 'Boys Keep Swinging'

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

X-Ray Spex, "I Live Off You"

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to do a medley of "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" by Rod Stewart and "I Touch Myself" by the Divinyls.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

the follow up to the ILX comp (do not listen if you hate us) should be the same artists doing a cover of their choice. (v wedding present) i would like to hear someone do Little Trees or Taffy "Midnight Radio"

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

"Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "Girls Want to Be With the Girls", "Girls Girls Girls", it's all good.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks for this, I shall get to work!

At work, I decided to also cover "under pressure".

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 20 January 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

You can't go wrong with "Total Eclipse of the Heart". I'd cover Ringo's "Back Off Boogaloo". Or the leper's song from Jesus Christ Superstar.

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

'Sugar Me' Lynsey de Paul?

― kayT (kaytee), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Boots Randolph - "Yakety Sax"

― Curtis Stephens, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Wichita Linesman - just to piss people off
Beach Boys - something off of Love You - maybe Airplane
Daft Punk - Digital Love (on acoustic guitar would be nice)

err... i always think of good ones and then forget them.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:29 (twenty-three years ago)

jel you should cover "the wolf" by heart, it rocks!

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Wipe Out, or Chop Suey

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"I mean me intoning or screeching the lyrics over a backing of radio static, keyboard drones and bad guitar playing."

Oh, i didn't read this part, for the two I mentioned above it would have to be really precise skillful playing.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:25 (twenty-three years ago)

He could do an a capella version of Wipeout.

― Curtis Stephens, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to be in a Bruce Springsteen-covering punk band. All Boss, all really fast so that his words spill at you even faster.

might have to get that micromachine man from galoob to sing vocals.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:37 (twenty-three years ago)

na na na na na naaaa na wipe out!

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:48 (twenty-three years ago)

turbonegro!

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 25 January 2003 04:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, definitely "Wichita Lineman." Or the Carpenters' "Superstar." I long to be a hammy lounge singer.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 25 January 2003 04:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Devo.

Or something by Neal Diamond - "Forever in Blue Jeans"? (I'm ducking after this post.)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Saturday, 25 January 2003 05:42 (twenty-three years ago)

"Forever in Blue Jeans"

if not jel, or jel doing FIBJ a la Turbonegro, then definitely that's a song crying out for a Turbonegro cover!

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 25 January 2003 05:43 (twenty-three years ago)

*laughing* Too true.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Saturday, 25 January 2003 05:45 (twenty-three years ago)

John Denver's "Annie's Song," Loggins and Messina's "Danny's Song," and so forth - basically any song whose title consists of a person's name and then "song." I can't decide if Elton John's "Your Song" should count or not.

I once heard a techno cover of "House at Pooh Corner," - positively brilliant! (Or I was too drunk to accurately assess the artistic qualities of said cover.)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Saturday, 25 January 2003 06:09 (twenty-three years ago)

And how about "Ode to Billy Joe"? One of my favorites to sing, operatically, in the shower.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Saturday, 25 January 2003 06:33 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven years pass...

I was thinking about this today. Here are some of the songs I'd cover if I knew how to sing or make music.

In Spanish
Pedro Guerra - Contaminame
Ivan - Fotonovela
Mecano - Hawaii Bombaii
Manzanita - Ramito de Violetas (based on the Banda el Mexicano cumbia cover rather than Manzanita's original)

In English

Alan Parsons Project - Games People Play
Dwight Twilley - Looking for the Magic
Tommy Roe - Sweet Pea
Royal Teens - Short Shorts
Liquido - Narcotic
The Beatles - You Know My Name

― Moka, Monday, 14 July 2014 06:51 (eleven years ago)

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