and thanks n.)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
pink -> '18 and life' by skid rowandrew wk -> 'be my baby' or some other wall of sound trackjustin timberlake -> 'the sweetest girl' by scritti politti
― maura (maura), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
Adult. / Delta 5's "Mind Your Own Business"Nico / Honeybunch's "Mine Your Own Business"Felix + Miss Kittin / Specials' "Do the Dog"Tool / Fischerspooner's "Emerge"Death Cab for Cutie / Smokey Robinson's "When Sundown Comes"Ludacris w/ Prefuse 73 / Family Fodder's "Dinosaur Sex"Movietone / Boo Radley's "Does this Hurt?"Morr artists / Slowdive and get it right this time
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― paul cox, Friday, 30 August 2002 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
clinic ---> aerosmith's "sweet emotion"elton john ---> magazine's "you never knew me"masters at work ---> talking heads' "crosseyed and painless"markus guentener ---> brian eno's "by this river"tlc ---> althea & donna's "uptown top ranking"
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
Genius call on Pink, Maura
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
Tricky circa 1995 --> the Rolling Stones's "Gimme Shelter"Tom Waits --> the White Stripes's "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"Ike & Tina Turner --> Soulwax's "The Magnificent Romeo"Sonic Youth --> Osymyso's "Intro Introspection"No Doubt --> Braces Tower's "Special Child"
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nate Patrin, Friday, 30 August 2002 15:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
Heavenly --> Caetano Veloso's "Maria Bethania"Caetano Veloso --> Heavenly's "Our Love is Heavenly"
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
it would save her [music] career! (as would a decent haircut and an actual outfit!)
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
(now I'm just getting weird)
― Nate Patrin, Friday, 30 August 2002 15:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
KORITFW,
DJ Sonic Jesus
― DJ Sonic Jesus, Friday, 30 August 2002 15:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Simon, Friday, 30 August 2002 15:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
flying saucer attack ---> bonnie prince billy's "death to everyone"
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity (felicity), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
alternately
bernhard gunter ---> arvo parts' "fur alina"
alternately again
fennesz ---> arvo parts' "tabula rasa"
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 16:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
I saw M. Doughty do an acoustic cover of this in 1994.
― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 16:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
I would consider any interpretation of a classic story (Hamlet, Sisyphus, etc.) a "cover."
― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 30 August 2002 16:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Friday, 30 August 2002 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Thursday, 24 June 2004 07:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― coco, Thursday, 24 June 2004 08:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 June 2004 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Or did they already do it?
― Nowell, Friday, 3 September 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
christ dom's last one is good tho
― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 4 September 2004 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nowell, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Matthew Sweet covering The Alan Parsons Project's "Don't Answer Me"
The Sisters Of Mercy covering Guns 'N' Roses' "You Could Be Mine"
Alejandro Escovedo covering Night Ranger's "Don't Tell Me You Love Me" (live, of course)
Bob Dylan covering Dire Straits' "Romeo And Juliet"
The Cult covering Golden Earring's "Twilight Zone"
― Edward Bax, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
I have also decided (thanks to a reminder of said song's existence via VH1 Classic) that The Alan Parsons Project's "Don't Answer Me" needs to be covered by the Beta Band as a proper farewell single.
― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Carole King > Todd Rundgren's "I Saw the Light"
Destiny's Child > Steely Dan's "Show Biz Kids"
Franz Ferdinand > Wings' "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five"
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris besinger (chris besinger), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Fiona Apple > "Mr. Bojangles"
Marilyn Manson > "Pop Muzik"
Natalie Merchant > "Road to Nowhere"
Courtney Love and Billy Corgan > "Whenever I Call You 'Friend'"
Nina Simone > Roberta Flack's "Feel Like Makin' Love"
Terence Trent D'Arby > "When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You" (or, indeed, the entire Here, My Dear album)
Alison Moyet > "Softly Whispering I Love You" or Dusty Springfield's "Just a Little Lovin'"
Three Dog Night > Bowie's "Fame" (imagine harmonies on this)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 17 January 2005 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ben Dot (1977), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― spitney brears, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― andrea leppard, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link
prince "purple rain" , "rock and roll is alive"michael jackson "ben","man in the mirror"stevie wonder "lately"," overjoyed"smokey robinson "being with you","you better shop around"lionel ritchie "hello","dancing on the ceiling"
― nogers relson, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Kate Bush -- "Little Bunny Foo-Foo"
― Nguyễn Phúc Bích (Eisbaer), Saturday, 12 March 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
My dream is that the Drive-By Truckers drop "People Who Died" from their set and start ending shows with Ozzy Osbourne's "Goodbye to Romance."
Also, Pink covering "18 and Life" is some kinda brilliant.
― deusner ex machina, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
John Cale -> Pete Townshend's "Let My Love Open the Door" (solo piano performance in the style of Fragments of a Rainy Season)
and John Cale -> Bette Davis Eyes (same backing track as Kim Carnes's version. I really just want to hear him deliver the line "all the boys think she's a spy" with all the snideness he can muster)
― naadje draadje (unregistered), Friday, 18 January 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Neko -> "Tears of a Clown", "Send in the Clowns", "Cathy's Clown", "Stuck in the Middle with You"
― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Monday, 19 August 2013 02:03 (ten years ago) link
Phil Collins --> "Love Lockdown"Beyonce --> "Hope There's Someone"Harry Nilsson --> "Innocent When You Dream"Terence Trent D'Arby --> "Ring My Bell"Queen --> "We Are Young"Grace Jones --> "Closer"Roy Orbison --> The Cars' "Drive"
― vmajestic, Monday, 19 August 2013 02:55 (ten years ago) link
tonetta --> the spinners' "it's a shame"cardiacs --> abba's "does your mother know"
― Stupor Fly, Monday, 19 August 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
80's-era butthole surfers - bay city rollers "saturday night"
― Stupor Fly, Monday, 19 August 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
jandek - the cars "good times roll" or "moving in stereo"
― Stupor Fly, Monday, 19 August 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
A cover I actually did hear in a dream once:Jimmy Saville --> "Put away" by the fall.(It was on the black Columbia label, 'fact' fans)― Mark G (Mark G), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 07:46 (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
(It was on the black Columbia label, 'fact' fans)
― Mark G (Mark G), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 07:46 (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
".. And now they're putting me away, but I'll be back one day"
― Mark G, Monday, 19 August 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
Air --> "Planet Caravan"Cocteau Twins --> "Scarborough Fair"Bob Dylan --> REM's "Drive"
― vmajestic, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link
New Pornographers --> Gowan's "Strange Animal"
― MarkoP, Thursday, 22 August 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
The Cure - George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby"
― Stupor Fly, Monday, 16 September 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
i picked this covers thread to revive because it had the most exuberant title but this is essentially a language question
if you have a bunch of covers of the same band performed/recorded by different groups of peoplethat is aa. covers projectb. cover projectc. something elsed. shut up
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Tribute album, traditionally, I'd thought?
My number one dream cover with a bullet: "Ghostbusters" by the B-52s.
― A Whizzer, A Poo Star (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
yeah i was thinking that toocan anyone confirm!?
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
Bordoms -> The White Album
Really just any Boredoms doing The Beatles will do!
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 March 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
cursed post
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
lol
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Wednesday, 17 January 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Rolling Stones covering Denim’s “Bubblehead”
― brimstead, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:10 (one year ago) link
Lou Reed covering Neil Young's "Lookout Joe"
― BrianB, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link
Sloan (Jay Ferguson on lead vox) covering Jay Ferguson's "Thunder Island"
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 23:33 (one year ago) link
Neil Young circa "Harvest" doing Eddie Money's "Two Tickets to Paradise" at half tempo
― budo jeru, Thursday, 2 March 2023 00:41 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link