Songs to Cover using a Vocoder

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Soon I am going to purchase a synth featuring a vocoder. I have a few projects in mind already, all of which are covers at the moment (I have decided I am at the point in my music career where doing covers would help my style)

1. Immigrant Song, Led Zep
2. That's The Way (I Like It), K.C. & The Sunshine Band
3. Horse With No Name, America
4. Scarborough Fair, Simon & Garfunkel

and at the suggestion of Aaron Grossman, Whale's Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe.

Your picks?

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 15 March 2003 05:46 (twenty-three years ago)

hmm... Bob Marley, "Bend Down Low"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 15 March 2003 06:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I think you should use the vocoder to play the original recordings of the songs through a keyboard performance of a sheet-music arrangement of the same song in order to gauge how successful the sheet music is.

― tom (other one), Saturday, 15 March 2003 06:36 (twenty-three years ago)

u2 - "the fly"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 15 March 2003 06:37 (twenty-three years ago)

sir mix a lot - "baby got back"

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 15 March 2003 07:38 (twenty-three years ago)

vocoding the originals across newly played renditions is a fantastic idea

― george gosset (gegoss), Saturday, 15 March 2003 07:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Jerry Reed, "When You're Hot, You're Hot". That or "Convoy"

― dave q, Saturday, 15 March 2003 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Dead Or Alive - "You Spin Me Round"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 15 March 2003 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Gigi d'Agostino already did "You Spin Me Round" vocoder stylee.

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 15 March 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

"Eye of the Tiger"

― paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, 15 March 2003 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Ace of Spades by motorhead

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Sunday, 16 March 2003 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)

played out

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 16 March 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Lynn Anderson-"I Never Promised You a Rose Garden"

― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 16 March 2003 01:01 (twenty-three years ago)

anything by Burzum.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 16 March 2003 01:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"Dog Eat Dog" by Adam and the Ants

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 16 March 2003 01:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"Thank God, I'm a Country Boy" by John Denver

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 16 March 2003 07:16 (twenty-three years ago)

black flag's "nervous breakdown" done george duke style.

― bob snoom, Sunday, 16 March 2003 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

10CC 'I'm Not In love'

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 16 March 2003 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Millar, you still on it?
okeh... y'kno, "Born In The USA" and "I Want To Know What Love Is" could use some wicked vocoding. and so could "Love Me Do" - p'haps.
(yes, "Scarborough Fair"s a good choice, methinks so too)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 17 March 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

said it before, i'll say it again: robert palmer's 'i didn't mean to turn you on' is raising a come-hither eyebrow to be vocodered up

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Monday, 17 March 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Gordon Lightfoot: "If You Could Read My Mind." The result would be like an outtake from Beck's _Sea Change._

― mike a (mike a), Monday, 17 March 2003 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i mentioned elsewhere I want to redo "Wichita Lineman" as "Digital Lineman" and have modem noises throughout the instrumental bridge. Yuck yuck!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 17 March 2003 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

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