You Are In Charge Of A Hot Happening Young MTV-Ready Band. What Indie/Post-Punk/Etc Obscurity Do You Have Them Cover That Will Hit The Charts In A Heartbeat!

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Be on the lookout for my new band The Fading Captains. All the boys were handpicked from the Elite Modelling Agency. Their debut album Alien Lanes 2004! was produced by Bob Rock and mixed by Andy Wallace.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 April 2004 13:51 (twenty years ago) link

Happening, young AWK

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 5 April 2004 13:52 (twenty years ago) link

I heard a version of 'Three Girl Rhumba' on a commercial television station ID. I felt sick.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

ca plane pour moi

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago) link

U R TtLy frontin 4 fRANZ fERDINAND d00d n tr0llin 4 idees.
hAhAhA lol giv it upp.

― autovac (autovac), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

i still haven't heard franz ferdinand yet. i'm scared of them cuzza the 80's/newrapture/newinterpol thing. I would give them Jet Set Junta by the Monochrome Set. Wait, that doesn't smell like a hit. I would give them Starry Nowhere by The Monochrome Set. Swelling strings, massive orchestra. They would be swimming in money.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

McFly could do a good Jet Set Junta, they might need to get rid of the political bits and replace them with stuff about paparazzis and call it "Jet Set Wahey!" or something instead though.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago) link

Sex Drive by the Embarrassments

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago) link

Sex Beat by Outkast featuring Kelis!!!!!!!!!!!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago) link

ying yang twinz - "cannonball"

― m., Monday, 5 April 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe off topic, but The Dixie Chicks should cover "Indian Summer" by Beat Happening.

― sexyDacner, Monday, 5 April 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

Not (originally) an indie or post-punk song, but I'm sure someone could score big with 'Different Drum'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 5 April 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago) link

Someone has GOT to cover Suicide's "Cheree" one of these days. It's a pop hit waiting to happen.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 5 April 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link

I bet Mark Anthony could do the number justice

― sexyDancer, Monday, 5 April 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

Good idea. Given their recent success, I wouldn't mind Usher and Lil Jon taking a crack at it too, in the Busta/Mariah "Give it to Me" duet sense.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 5 April 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago) link

If you choose "Hiroshima Mon Amour" by Ultravox, turn to page 53.
If you choose "Blush 102" by Algebra Suicide, turn to page 112.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Monday, 5 April 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link

Busted - "Orgasm Addict" (though it might make me cry)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

"Mind Your Own Business" by Delta 5. It does matter who does it. Anybody could cover it. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dixie Chicks, Pink, No Doubt, whatever. It's just lying out there on the waiver wire, waiting for someone to nab it.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link

Siouxsie covered it already (but that was 17 years ago). "The Passenger" is just a hit lying in wait, though.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

Seriously, it does seem a little strange to me. I mean you've got this alternate universe of great pop songs that hardly anyone has heard and nobody takes advantage? Is it just that dylan/beatles/auteur/singersongwriter thing? People used to make hit records out of anything once upon a time. folk songs, broadway tunes, movie music, etc. Why don't Wilco cover "I Will Dare" and get that big hit that they've never had? Seems silly to me. a good song is a good song.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

and it isn't even the auteur thing when people pay the matrix a million bucks to write a song. all they have to do is give westerburg beer money.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

"Makes No Sense at All"-Husker Du
"Dark on You Now"-The Peanut Butter Conspiracy

BTW, is Beck's cover of the Korgis' "Everbody's Got to Learn Sometime" becoming a hit?

BTW #2, the Delta 5 song was covered a few years ago by Le Shok (not that they were in a position to have a hit or even that their version could've been a hit!).

― Tim Ellison, Monday, 5 April 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

I've never heard of "Le Shok" but that is one hell of an awful name.

all they have to do is give westerburg beer money.

Ha! This reminds me of how that shitty band The Offspring threw a tossed-off cover of the Didjits "Killboy Powerhead" on that big record they had. It wasn't a single or anything, but the album sold enough that I think Rick Didjit was able to buy a house!

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

I wonder what the Vaselines did with their Nirvana money.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

Some ponce with cover "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and make it sound like John Mayer.

― Lil' Fancy Pants (ex machina), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

"under the milky way" could be recorded in the studio tonight by any number of nu pop punk bands and on the billboard hot 100 in the morning.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 5 April 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link

Human Hands, "She Eats Bugs"--it's waiting to happen

― bedbug, Monday, 5 April 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

I bet a bad pop punk band could do well ($$$$) butchering that Flaming Lips song about TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGERINES.

Remember "Boys of Summer"?

― Lil' Fancy Pants (ex machina), Monday, 5 April 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link

Slack Motherfucker

― earlnash, Monday, 5 April 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

>People used to make hit records out of anything once upon a time.

Case in point: a Mel Tormé b-side from 1964 is re-recorded by Siouxsie and Budgie, and becomes one of the most memorable hit singles of the early '80s. (The Creatures, Right Now.)

― Palomino (Palomino), Monday, 5 April 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link

"Slow Dog" by Belly. Such a perfect pop rock ditty.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 5 April 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

Nick Carter - 'Unsolved Child Murder/Light Aircraft On Fire' (double A-side)

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 5 April 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago) link

Girls Aloud - 'Me & You vs. The World'. I'm trying to imagine a parallel universe where this might happen. I doubt there is one.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 5 April 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link

The Vines should cover "Eighties" by Killing Joke, then the circle of irony will be complete!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 5 April 2004 19:14 (twenty years ago) link

Wait until you hear Ashanti's version of "Hot On The Heels Of Love".

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 April 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

I would like to see a Franz Ferdinand medely of "Navvy"/"In The Navy".

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 5 April 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

and it isn't even the auteur thing when people pay the matrix a million bucks to write a song. all they have to do is give westerburg beer money.

that's funny, because I've heard it from a fairly (I think) reliable source that Westerberg actually does hack songwriting under another name, keeping his real name out of any credits/publishing info....the person said he's written songs for "famous" AAA radio format bands before....stricly for the easy $$

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 April 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago) link

Sum 41 - "Do the Standing Still" (by the Table)

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 5 April 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago) link

Dolly Mixture, "Everything and More"
Tall Dwarfs, "Nothing's Going to Happen"
Velocity Girl, "Forgotten Favorite"

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Monday, 5 April 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

oh i totally believe the westerberg thing. and why not? that's a cool way to make money. kinda like script doctoring a la tarantino and carrie fisher.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago) link

yeah...i'm from mpls and the guy I heard it from is tight w/westerberg from way back in ye olden tymes of mpls punk so I tend to believe him...I just wish I could find out what songs he's done..

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago) link

Pink - "Oh Bondage Up Yours!"

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago) link

That one's inspired.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:06 (twenty years ago) link

William Hung-"Sex Bomb"

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago) link

McFly- "Hitchin' A Ride"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago) link

I have always thought that someone (St Etienne? The Foxgloves?) should do a luscious synth pop version of the Go Betweens' 'Batchelor Kisses' in the style of the PSB's 'Love Comes Quickly'.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:19 (twenty years ago) link

The correct answer is to have some whiny nu-emo pansies cover A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran (So Far Away)".

― Nick Mirov (nick), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) link

colin i love you

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

have my babies

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

jagged edge - "peaches" (stranglers)

― mullygrubber (gaz), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

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Oh this is fucking ridiculous. It's a rule that EVERY hip MTV-ready indie breakout must do "outdoor miner" by Wire. D-U-FUCKING-H!

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

eleven months pass...

"Dazzle" by Siouxsie for Gwen Stefani's next album.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 25 March 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link

wait, i changed my mind. dfa-produced cover of kick in the eye by bauhaus for gwen.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 25 March 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link

"Peekaboo" for Gwen.

And somebody's gotta do the Violent Femmes' "Add It Up."

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 25 March 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

As I don't still don't know how they didn't dominate the charts worldwide (even despite Patrick Fitzgerald being openly homosexual), someone could easily hit #1 with one of their songs...from "Come on Now" (some modern-rock band like Puddle of Mudd could cover it, not that I'd want to hear the abomination) to "The 1001st Fault" (which would be so great for an emo group).

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Friday, 25 March 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

^"their" being Kitchens of Distinction, of course

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Friday, 25 March 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, maybe not #1, but could definitely go Top 40.

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Friday, 25 March 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Some R&B queen should do a cover of ESG's "Moody", too.

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Friday, 25 March 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Franz Ferdinand's cover of ABC's "Poison Arrow" was #1 for 16 weeks in the fall/winter of 2005.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I think Britney's got the right voice to handle Bad Brain's - i Against i -
(Dust Brothers Produce) and intorducing these kids to some real punk.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I also would love to hear Linkin Park's version of "Karma Chameleon."

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

"RED GOLD AND GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!"

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I would love to hear Omarion mulch "Father Figure".

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Or Limp Bizkit! Or Breaking Benjamin! Or whomever!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Mogwai, "Music Box Dancer"

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link

DFA1979, "Rhythm Is a Dancer"

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Chromeo, "Rhythm Is Gonna Getcha" (the MSM song!)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Ludacris w/ Sum 41, "The Super Bowl Shuffle"

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh, that would be good.

x-post

― Leon Bluth (Ex Leon), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I still can't figure out when Gwen Stefani hasn't covered "Walking in L.A."

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Why, rather.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

you were right the first time Ott

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Kites Are Fun!

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a great, broken, Motels song called "Counting" that I'd love to hear someone revamp.

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Friday, 25 March 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Touché.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 25 March 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

* Mandy Moore, The Raincoats' "No One's Little Girl."
* Any almost-played-out mall-punk band, TVPs' "Part Time Punks."
* Fiona Apple, Throwing Muses' "Hate My Way."

― mike a, Friday, 25 March 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Now that's genius.

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Friday, 25 March 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

"No One's Little Girl" is ripe for a smooth R&B retranslation - I can fully get on board with that.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh. My. God. I was just about to say Fountains Of Wayne "Calling All Girls" but someone beat me to it, last year. It really is kind of obvious, and I have no idea what's stopping them.

― dlp9001, Friday, 25 March 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Must say that "Hounds of Love" wouldn't be my first choice.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Imogene Heap - "The Tide is High"

― jdw (jdw), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Rihanna - Love's Secret Domain

― Mule, Friday, 11 May 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link

"Spazz" by the Elastik Band

― Poliopolice, Friday, 11 May 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link

sick thread

― billstevejim, Friday, 11 May 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link

I've never seen this thread before. Some wicked suggestions.

― Moka, Friday, 11 May 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link

M83 - "Driver's Seat"

― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link

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