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Whitney Houston ---> Rufus Wainwright's "Imaginary Love"

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Rufus Wainwright --> Patsy Cline's "Why Can't He Be You"
Mary J. Blige --> Dub Narcotic Sound System featuring Lois's "Ship to Shore"

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Pink--->Pat Benatar's "Hell Is For Children"
The Hives--->the Pork Dukes "Bend & Flush"
Gene Pitney--->the Rolling Stones "I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys"

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

James Brown c. 1967 --> the Rapture's "House of Jealous Lovers"
Britney Spears --> Marianne Faithfull's "Why'd Ya Do It"
War --> Loose Joints's "Tell You (Today)"

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

the dirty three ---> arvo parts' "cantus in memory of benjamin britten"

alternately

bernhard gunter ---> arvo parts' "fur alina"

alternately again

fennesz ---> arvo parts' "tabula rasa"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

vanessa carlton ---> sigur ros' "staralfur" (they're practically handing it to her!)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Sonic Youth --> "Magic Man"

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Stephen Malkmus --> Steely Dan's "Aja"
Beck --> Dylan's "When He Returns"
Sugababes --> The Damned's "I Just Can't Be Happy Today"
Sonic Youth (w/ Kim on vocals) --> Syd Barrett's "Dark Globe"
Liars --> Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood's "Some Velvet Morning"
Liars --> Madonna's "Music"
The Ramones (ha ha, right) --> ELO's "Don't Bring Me Down"

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and todd edwards ---> mary j blige's "real love"

I saw M. Doughty do an acoustic cover of this in 1994.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

The Breeders--->Roseanne Cash's "Seven Year Ache"
Everything But the Girl--->Cristina's "He Dines Out On Death"
New Pornographers--->Andy Pratt's "Avenging Annie"
Nina Hagen--->Ethel Merman's "Rose's Turn" from Gypsy

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

say...could writers cover other writers' work? like Hemingway writing The Great Gatsby or Chuck Eddy writing Mystery Train? (Shakespeare doesn't count, everybody covers him. Bible, too.)

I know you're not crazy about McSweeny's, Matos, but one of their issues had "covers" as a theme & I think Rick Moody covered a Chekov story ("The Egg" - wasn't that Chekov?)

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Jimi Hendrix --> Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale"

Neil Young/Joni Mitchell (both on acoustic guitar w/Jaco on upright bass) --> Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell's "River Deep Mountain High"

ZZtop circa Tres Hombres --> Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus"

Kraftwerk --> Aerosmith's "Lord of the Thighs"

― earlnash, Friday, 30 August 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I know you're not crazy about McSweeny's, Matos, but one of their issues had "covers" as a theme & I think Rick Moody covered a Chekov story ("The Egg" - wasn't that Chekov?)

I would consider any interpretation of a classic story (Hamlet, Sisyphus, etc.) a "cover."

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

how do you know I'm not crazy about McSweeney's?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Mariah Carey -- Ween's "Poop Ship Destroyer"
Sublime -- Sade's "Stronger Than Pride"
Jim Kweskin Jug Band -- Beck's "Painted Eyelids"
Songs:Ohia -- Eno's "Third Uncle"
Electric Prunes ala David Axelrod -- "Inna Godda Da Vidda"
Barkmarket -- Wedding Present's "Daliance"

― christoff, Friday, 30 August 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

yes it had to disintegrate into pure stupidity eventually, didn't it?

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

how do you know I'm not crazy about McSweeney's?

I thought you said something in a post once about "that smug clique at McSweeny's" or something like that. I remembered it because I like McSweeny's, most of the time.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Fugazi --> The Association's "Windy"
Low --> Sinead O'Connor's "Thank You for Hearing Me"
which actually is a dream cover, that is, they did cover it in a dream I actually had, and it sounded terrific.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

The Wallflowers -- "I Started A Joke"

― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Dettinger feat. Kelis --> Orbital's "Halycon +On +On"
Ludacris --> The Steets' "Too Much Brandy"
Boards of Canada --> The Bangles' "Eternal Flame"
Aaliyah --> VU's "Candy Says
(Insert City You Live in Here)'s Boy's Choir --> Aphex Twin's "Girl/Boy Song"
Spiritualized - Outkast's "Ms. Jackson"

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"halycon" and "streets" not "steets" heh
Radiohead --> The Human League's "Seconds"

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Mike Watt --> the entirety of The Basement Tapes.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

(arggh halcyon)

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Daft Punk --> Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (with vocoder!)

I ph34r this would sound much like the Moog Cookbook version of Smells Like Teen Spirit

― Zac, The Black Power Ranger (vicc13), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

The Cure-->Set 2 of Grateful Dead live @ Cornell 5/77

The Hives-->Motley Crue 'Live Wire' which would be changed to 'Hive Wire'

Devo-->Destiny's Child 'So Good'

Linkin Park-->2liveCrew 'Hey We Want Some Pussy'

Sinead O'conner-->Aqua 'Barbie Girl'

Melvins-->side a of On the Corner

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 30 August 2002 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

"Hive Wire" would be incredible, Chaki!

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 30 August 2002 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Add N to X: Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages"
Neko Case: Misfit's "Hybrid Moments" or "Angelfuck"
Andrew WK doin' the girl groop: Ronettes' "You Came You Saw You Conquered"
Christina Aguilera: Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love"
NSync: Roxy Music's "Do the Strand" (various house remixes)

man, this is fuuun.

― g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 30 August 2002 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The Smashing Pumpkins doing Creedence's "Have You Ever Seen the Rain"
Any punk band doing a punk cover of "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"

― My name is Kenny, Friday, 30 August 2002 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Christina Aguilera: Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love"

Uh, no.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Ladytron --> “Don’t You Want Me” by Human League
The Boredoms --> “Breath” by Pink Floyd
Neko Case --> “Winter” by Tori Amos (self-indulgence)=0)

― Juan Marquez, Friday, 30 August 2002 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

System of a Down -> Capt. Beefheart's "Pachuco Cadaver"
Mouse on Mars -> Depeche Mode's "Get the Balance Right"
Bob Dylan -> Burt Bacharach's "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (actually, story is that Burt offered this song to Bob in the late 60s but he turned it down - it would be fun to hear him do it now)

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 30 August 2002 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Ladytron --> “Don’t You Want Me” by Human League

Too obivous, sorry.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 30 August 2002 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I spent hours playing this game before. We came up with Oxide and Neutrino covering Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out With Him?", just ahead of Nickelback doing "Rubber Ball" by Cyrkle.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 30 August 2002 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll just mention that I've read a good few literary covers - for instance modern and updated versions of classic stories: Jane Smiley redid Lear in 1000 Acres, Alice Hoffman redid Wuthering Heights, Faust has been done several times (Marlowe, Goethe, Mann), and so on. And in movies we could call The Magnificent Seven and A Fistful Of Dollars covers of Kurosawa (Seven Samurai & Yojimbo), who of course in turn covered Shakespeare twice, in Throne Of Blood (Macbeth) and Ran (Lear again). I'd rather have covers like these than the practice of pretty straight anglophone remakes of continental successes.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 30 August 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

You're right, jody beth - christina aguilera covering the buzzcocks' - "ever fallen in love" would be just wrong - instead she should cover buzzcocks - "what do i get?" and britney should do "love you more"!! (except she should retitle it "love u more" obv!!)

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 30 August 2002 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

britney should do "love you more"!!

"Orgasm Addict"!

― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah that would be good but you can't put a "u" or a "4" in that one!! i checked!! "orgasm addict 4 u" just sounds wrong!!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 30 August 2002 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Jimmy Eat World - "Roadrunner"
The Strokes - "Walkin on Sunshine" or The Small Faces' "Sha La La La Lee"

Nothing would be better than Maura's Pink suggestion though

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 30 August 2002 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

this is the best thread evah! i couldn't come up with anything! what does that mean?!?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 30 August 2002 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd like Luke Haines to cover a Suede song. Or Morrissey to do a Cure number... Like a rockabilly "Boys dont cry" or something... Maybe even turn "Just Like Heaven" into a grandiose ballad...

Gary Glitter could do the Stranglers' "Bring on the nubiles", but that would be, er, bad taste... I'm tired, sorry!

― Simon, Friday, 30 August 2002 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

guns n roses ---> "roadrunner"
beastie boys ---> "academy fight song"
fugazi ---> "get the party started"
andrew wk ---> "virginia plain"

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 30 August 2002 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

missy elliot - -> JD's Shes Lost Control

Britney w/ Neptunes - -> ESGs Moody

Luomo feat. Tweet - -> Donna Summers I Feel Love

Busta Ryhmes - -> Model 500s No UFOs

― edward (big E.D), Saturday, 31 August 2002 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Eminem ---> Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out With Him?"
The Streets ---> Squeeze's "Cool For Cats"
Tiga & Zyntherius ---> Spiritualized's "Electricity"
Sticky ft. Lady Stush ---> Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop" via Byron Lee's version
M. Mayer ---> The Cure's "Let's Go To Bed"
Tweet ---> Kate Bush's "The Sensual World"
Christina Aguilera - The Runaways' "Cherry Bomb"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 31 August 2002 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Cat Power --> Joe Jackson's "Different For Girls"
Erase Errata --> No Doubt's "I'm Just A Girl"
Henry Rollins --> No Doubt's "Spiderwebs"
John Vanderslice --> Nick Cave's "The Mercy Seat"
The Mekons --> Elvis Costello's entire Imperial Bedroom album

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 31 August 2002 03:46 (twenty-three years ago)

(Martin you forgot Lowry's Faust/Inferno megamix!)

Mogwai => DJ Shadow's "Stem/Long Stem"
EL-P => Talking Heads' "Mind"
Tricky c95 w/Tricky on vox => Björk's "Venus As A Boy"
'Nsync => Britney Spears' "I'm A Slave 4 U"
(NZ-specific bonus answers)
Shapeshifter w/P-Money => the Clean's "Point That Thing Somewhere Else"
Salmonella Dub => DLT/Che Fu's "Chains"
Deceptikonz => Blam Blam Blam's "There Is No Depression In New Zealand"
Cloudboy => Peking Man's "Room That Echoes"

― Ess Kay (esskay), Saturday, 31 August 2002 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

This is my favorite thread ever.

Destiny's Child -- XTC's "Dear God"
The Jesus and Mary Chain -- The Go-Go's "Our Lips Are Sealed"
Ray Charles and Toots Hibbert -- (played like a Professor Longhair boogie) The Maytals' "Pressure Drop"
Stereolab produced by Dr. Dre -- Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra's "You Only Live Twice" (James Bond theme)
Fleetwood Mac -- Low's "Sunflower"
The Jayhawks -- Alton Ellis's "Girl I've Got a Date"
Peter Gabriel and Youssou N'Dour -- "Hot in Herre"

I better stop now...

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 31 August 2002 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Kermit the Frog -- "O Night Divine"

― Aaron A., Saturday, 31 August 2002 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

you know, i actually put some thought into mine, people!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 August 2002 23:58 (twenty-three years ago)

that was mean. there's actually some really good ones on here.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 1 September 2002 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Destiny's Child -- XTC's "Dear God"
Oh dear! I can't stop thinking about this!!

I enjoy all the Christina Aguilera suggestions. ESPECIALLY "Ever Fallen in Love"! The correct answer, tho, is ANYTHING by Bob Dylan

David Bowie--Neutral Milk Hotel's "Ghost"
N.E.R.D.--Talking Heads' "Moon Rocks"

― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Sunday, 1 September 2002 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

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I always thought just about any contemporary country dude could have a huge hit with the Alarm's "Sold Me Down the River."

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 March 2015 16:53 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

I was humming Cotton Eyed Joe to myself and I suddenly started imagining what it would sound like if it were covered by the Chromatics at half-pace. It sounds unironicallly beautiful.

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 01:52 (eight years ago)

cursed post

― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 01:59 (eight years ago)

lol

― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 18:39 (eight years ago)

The Monkees (w/Dolenz singing) doing "I'm Writing A Novel" by Father John Misty

― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 January 2018 07:10 (eight years ago)

five months pass...

I'd love to hear Jon Anderson of Yes do a prog cover of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHAHgjL0YzQ

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 14 July 2018 23:02 (seven years ago)

Randomly dreamt that the Manic Street Preachers did "The Tide Is High" in a rocked-up version - though a song about sea levels might be a bit too political for them these days.

― sbahnhof, Saturday, 21 July 2018 05:29 (seven years ago)

three years pass...

Rolling Stones covering Denim’s “Bubblehead”

― brimstead, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:10 (four years ago)

nine months pass...

Lou Reed covering Neil Young's "Lookout Joe"

― BrianB, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 23:09 (three years ago)

Sloan (Jay Ferguson on lead vox) covering Jay Ferguson's "Thunder Island"

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 23:33 (three years ago)

Neil Young circa "Harvest" doing Eddie Money's "Two Tickets to Paradise" at half tempo

― budo jeru, Thursday, 2 March 2023 00:41 (three years ago)

two I've literally heard in my head for years:

Jessica Pratt doing Olivia Newton-John's "Love Song"

Julian Casablancas doing Yukihiro Takahashi's "Drip Dry Eyes"

oh and while we're at it...a whole album of Sky Ferreira doing Ariel Pink covers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odg5lHuwPf4

― anza808, Thursday, 2 March 2023 04:14 (three years ago)

two years pass...

kind would like hear LDR doing Neil Young’s “mellow my mind”

it already sounds sort of like “the greatest”

― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 May 2025 01:04 (one year ago)

“kind of would”

― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 May 2025 01:05 (one year ago)

“like to”. sorry, not all there atm apparently

― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 May 2025 01:05 (one year ago)

Good Vibrations era Beach Boys doing Uncle John's Band

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 5 June 2025 01:02 (one year ago)

Yeah that could be pretty damn cool

implied this on another thread recently but circa 1997 Portishesd doing “Black Sabbath”

― brimstead, Thursday, 5 June 2025 01:30 (one year ago)

I don't think I've seen this thread before and I thought it was "dreams you had of bands doing covers"

I once dreamed that I saw Huggy Bear covering Crass' "Shaved Women" and it was AWESOME

― sleeve, Thursday, 5 June 2025 01:34 (one year ago)

one month passes...

Blonde on Blonde era Dylan doing Raspberry Beret.
Around the World in a Day era Prince doing Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 9 July 2025 18:47 (eleven months ago)

Beyonce doing "Vienna"

I always wanted to hear a sped-up, cheesy AF house banger version of Eurthymics' "Sweet Dreams". The generic-er the better. It feels like something that should exist, but I've never found one.

― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 9 July 2025 20:14 (eleven months ago)

s/t era VU covering "a white shade of pale" (closet mix)

― budo jeru, Thursday, 10 July 2025 14:08 (eleven months ago)

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