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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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

The Wallflowers -- "I Started A Joke"

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

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-one years ago) link

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

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

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

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

(arggh halcyon)

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

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

"Hive Wire" would be incredible, Chaki!

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

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

Christina Aguilera: Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love"

Uh, no.

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

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

britney should do "love you more"!!

"Orgasm Addict"!

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

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

(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-one years ago) link

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-one years ago) link

Kermit the Frog -- "O Night Divine"

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

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

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

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

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

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-one years ago) link

Actually some of these might suck, but be amusing...

Blood Brothers > Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence"/Run DMC's "Tricky"
Spiritualized > Low's "Starfire"
Shudder to Think > Bowie's "Lady Stardust"
Les Savy Fav > Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba"/Elastica's "Connection"
Daniel Johnston > Beach Boy's "God Only Knows"
Sloan > Zombies' "Care of Cell 44"
Shellac > Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again"
Lambchop > American Music Club's "Firefly"
Carole King > Bikini Kill's "Rebel Girl"

― wl, Sunday, 1 September 2002 04:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cat Power -- On the Road Again
Mary Lou Lord -- (none)

― Aaron A., Sunday, 1 September 2002 04:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Love And Rockets > ELO's "Don't Bring Me Down"

Radiohead > Ramones' "Howling At The Moon"

Blue Oyster Cult > Avengers' "The Amerikan In Me"

Le Tigre > The Cars' "Shake It Up"

Depeche Mode > Black Sabbath's "Neon Knights"

Roxy Music > Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out With Him?"

Roy Montgomery > any Durutti Column song (or vice versa)

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Sunday, 1 September 2002 15:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Scott Walker --> Girl You'll Be A Women Soon

Jimmy Somerville--> 8 Ball

Joan Jett--> Tube Snake Boogie

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 1 September 2002 17:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh I Forgot

Happy Flowers--> Jesus Is Just Alright

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 1 September 2002 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Lou Reed & Moe Tucker duet--> I Wish I Were in Love Again (Rodgers & Hart)

I like the idea of the rockabilly Cure, more so the rockabilly cure, all artists should take it...

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 1 September 2002 19:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

some of these selections are way outdated, but:

bis: thompson twins' "lies"
neil hannon: abc's "the look of love"
young marble giants: roxy music's "avalon"
public enemy: fugazi's "burning too" or "reprovisional"
tom waits: beat happening's "gravedigger blues"
danielson famile: pixies' "bone machine"

― mike a, Sunday, 1 September 2002 22:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Christina Aguilera --> Jermaine Stewart's "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off"

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 2 September 2002 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sonic Youth----> MBV's "Soon"

Prince----> The Cure's "The Same Deep Water as You"

― Brenya, Monday, 2 September 2002 17:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Strokes--->Snatch's "IRT"

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 2 September 2002 23:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

akufen---> Bizarre Love Triangle

― edward (big E.D), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 02:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

the fall -> conduit for sale!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 02:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Mekons: "Tubthumping"

― mike a, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 15:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

broadcast "golden hair" (syd barrett)

― gygax!, Sunday, 20 October 2002 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Henry Rollins --> No Doubt's "Spiderwebs""

Just trying to imagine this is giving me a splitting headache.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 20 October 2002 21:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Back when Rothko were just three bassists I daydreamed about them doing a reverb-drenched slo-mo cover of Numan's "Cars" with vocals from Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. I know everyone here probably wants to kill me just for the thought but I'm still not entirely convinced that it was a bad idea, even after I was put off somewhat by To Rococo Rot (another obsession of mine at the time) releasing a dreary cover of it. Anyway, Rothko these days don't sound quite like I imagined it, so even I had to give up on the dream.

― Rebecca (reb), Sunday, 20 October 2002 22:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

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Rolling Stones covering Denim’s “Bubblehead”

― brimstead, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:10 (one year ago) link

nine months pass...

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

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