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Cover versions that don't exist, but should

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astrojax69

03:22 / 23.09.04

rolf harris doing rage against the machine's 'killing in the name of'

or

rage against the machine doing rolf harris' 'tie me kangaroo down, sport'

or maybe neither of these things should ever come to be... : )

Nakkurusu

00:37 / 25.09.04

The Supremes: "You Keep Me Hanging On" as done Radiohead.

Saint Keggers

01:19 / 25.09.04

Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits singing Berlin's Take My Breath Away

Triplets

02:50 / 28.09.04

The 5, 6, 7, 8s doing Starship's 'We Built This City (On Rock & Roll)'

They call us ir-responsible... Dri-i-ive us off the stage!

Do'on't youuu rememberr-remb-err-remem-bah

Douglas76

00:32 / 02.10.04

I've long longed for terrible Scandinavian power-pop combo Ace of Base's cover of The Specials' Ghost Town.

However, what I'd really like to hear is a really slow, dirtied up, broken hearted version of My Name is Tallula from Bugsy Malone. I don't really care who does it, but in an ideal world we'd have Billie Holliday back from the dead in a one time only show.

Hydra vs Leviathan

16:39 / 30.05.06

"Midnight Train To Georgia" (Gladys Knight & The Pips) by any mid-70s roots reggae artist, produced by someone like Jack Ruby, Joe Gibbs or Bunny Lee, with the Roots Radics horn section, and the lyrics slightly tweaked to replace "Georgia" with "Ethiopia" or "Zion"...

Said I'm leaving, leaving on that midnight train to Zion... (background/harmony: leaving on the Black Star Line!)... I'd rather live in Jah land, than live without Him in mine...

in fact i wouldn't be surprised if that had already been done... but every time i hear "Midnight Train To Georgia" it strikes me as absolutely perfect for such an interpretation...

foolish fat finger

10:43 / 31.05.06

I wanna hear Gogol Bordello do a punked-up version of the Doors 'the end'. about 140 BPM should do it. can't you just hear it?! (adopt wild Ukrainian accent) "this-is-the END! MY ON- LY FR-R-RIEND!"

failing that, Radiohead doing 'happy talk' with Morrissey on backing vocals would provide 3 minutes of cheap humour...

johnny enigma

10:56 / 31.05.06

Girls Aloud covering "Windowlicker" by Aphex Twin.

Great thread, by the way.

foolish fat finger

11:47 / 31.05.06

nice one johnny...

you should hear my version of 'windowlicker acoustic'... sounds like a cat being sick...

Quantum

12:08 / 31.05.06

"Louie Louie" covered by Lordi. I'd love to hear GB cover The End, I'm going to try and persuade them to do it.

iconoplast

19:12 / 31.05.06

Any shoegaze band, but preferably The Morning After Girls, doing a droned-out spacey and psychedelic version of The Pogues' Tuesday Morning.

Everytime I hear the song, I hear this cover version from an alternate history somewhere in the background. I swear.

iconoplast

20:49 / 31.05.06

Ooo, and Marty Robbins' El Paso - I always imagine Dan Ackroyd as Elwood Blues, crooning this into one of those old metal microphones.

Mistoffelees

07:02 / 07.06.06

Dave Gahan has an incredible voice. I want an album with lots of Morrissey cover tracks. Some of my picks, that he needs to cover:

Speedway, I Will See You In Far Off Places, Sunny, Maladjusted, National Front Disco, Last Of The Famous International Playboys, There´s A Place For Me And My Friends, Mute Witness

Do it, Dave!

juan de marcos

18:56 / 07.06.06

[ Posted by The Resistable rise of Reidcourchie on 15.10.03 in the Slayer=Best Band Ever??? thread ]

Lemmy and the Ministry should get together to do a cover of the 20 minute long, 1973 progressive rock classic Inna Gadda Da Vida. That would be the best thing ever.

That would be indeed very lovely.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:19 / 07.06.06

It would. It would be the fastest thing ever, yet last for an eternity. They'd have to reinvent physics just to make it possible.

Oh, and it would ROCK more than previously thought possible.

9-Jack-9

21:42 / 26.06.06

The Fixx's "One Thing Leads to Another" as interpreted by Radian -- all taut rhythm and sinewy, buzzing electricity.

Super_Collider covering the Pointer Sisters' "Automatic" (or "I Heard It Through the Grapevine")

Xiu Xiu doing a soft, haunting version of Chris Isaac's "Wicked Game"

Fe-mail covering "Too Many Creeps" by the Bush Tetras

Lugue

12:20 / 29.06.06

Jesus Christ.

After listening to Kelis's first two albums for a while, then her collaboration with Björk on the track "Oceania", and now giving the Medulla album another listen...

It is absurdly important for the continuation of universal existence that Kelis does a hard-hitting, electro-ish (beat-wise, and by this I mean 80s electro - I think)but choir-enrichened, highly bombastic r'n'b/hip-hop version of Where Is The Line?. Optional Neptunes production, what with that beat begging to be translated into their style - but they've turned shit, haven't they?

Still.

Jesus Christ!

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

12:24 / 03.07.06

I've just read this entire thread so that I could post my idea about lemmy and Ministry doing a cover version of Ina gadda da vida only to discover that I've already posted it on this thread without actually posting in it. That idea just won't go away.

Gaaah! Why should I bother!? I may as well do some work.

Slayer have actually done a cover version of Ina Gadda Da Vida but it's not to hot (though the Simpson cover version is pretty good). Moterhead have done a pretty amusing version of Louie Louie.

I'd would have like Marilyn Manson, M&M, Britney and Christina to have done a cover version of Kids In America in about 2000, when Britney and Christina where still fresh faced little poppets, sung as kind of counter point if you see what I mean. Audioslave to cover Zepplin's Last Stand of Achiles because I'm pretty sure Audioslave are Zepplin (actually I'm not I just have really high hopes which are bound to be dashed).

Ticker

14:25 / 05.07.06

I would like Rasputina or PJ Harvey to do a cover of Danzig's 'Mother'.

Makes me happy to think about it.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

17:14 / 05.07.06

I would be suprised if Rasputina has not done a cover of Mother live...

stabbystabby

09:15 / 13.07.06

Fun Loving Criminals did a great lounge version of Ozzy's Crazy Train, and there's an awesome hair metal version of the transformers theme by a japanese metal band out there somewhere.

Tee! rans! formerrrrzzzzz! more than meets the eeeeeeeeeeeyyeeeeeeeee!

Tom Paine's Bones

11:24 / 13.07.06

I'd like William Shatner to cover either Total Eclipse of the Heart or that old Goff classic This Corrosion.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

16:34 / 13.07.06

Having just listened to 10,000 Days straight through twice (got it this morning), I would pay good money for Tool to cover Pink Floyd's Pigs On The Wing.

Hydra vs Leviathan

12:55 / 06.10.06

I had a very odd dream a while ago in which there was a seriously dread, bass-heavy reggae version (think, say, Yabby You or Black Ark-era Max Romeo, with a Burning Spear/Fela Kuti style horn section) of... Europe's "The Final Countdown".

Disregarding how deranged a mind i must have to have thought of that, there's a part of me that thinks (tweaking a few lyrics, so it's about the downfall of Babylon or something) it might just work...

ginger

14:04 / 06.10.06

arab strap on avril lavigne's 'complicated'.

it makes perfect sense.

Baobab Branches and Plastic

22:14 / 08.10.06

Fiona Apple covering Magazine's 'Light pouts out of me' I don't know why I want to hear this... I just do.

Joggy Yoghurt

00:53 / 16.11.06

These boots are made for walking covered by The White Stripes. Please god I want it now, I can hear it so clearly in my head its a no.1

ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!

02:28 / 16.11.06

I'd really love to hear Bob Dylan covering the Hunters and Collectors' Holy Grail. Just for the pausing. Those... big black birds! They were... Ciirclin' inna skyyy!

in my head, it sounds fantastic.

juan de marcos

20:05 / 21.11.06

Everytime I listen to 1st Man in Space by The Allseeing Eye, I imagine a yelling Kate Pierson in the background. So if the B-52's could do the job for real...?

Furthermore I think Johnny Cash could have made a brillant stripped-down real slow version of Billy Idol's Dancing With Myself. I guess it's up to next best voices Leonard Cohen or Michael Gira .

Rammstein are gefundenes Fressen to cover some ABBA. (Thinking of I have a Dream in particular) In German of course, that goes without saying...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:10 / 21.11.06

Furthermore I think Johnny Cash could have made a brillant stripped-down real slow version of Billy Idol's Dancing With Myself. I guess it's up to next best voices Leonard Cohen or Michael Gira.

Gira would make it so much creepier...

yeah, I'll second that one.

Let's have a whip-round. I'm sure we can get the cash together to convince him it's worth a go...

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