My Bloody Valentine

The Band?

Kate Bush?

did a cover of On Broadway.
And The Band did Georgia On My Mind
Sorry!

Kate has recorded the trad Irish ballad She moved through the fair...and does a damn fine job too.

Stone Roses?

Stone Roses?

Boo Radleys?
*edit* the moment after I posted this I remembered their version of "Zoom".

The Fuck Buttons?

Actually I have no idea about them, I'm just assuming that they haven't.

I'm fairly sure that the Boo Radleys did a Small Faces cover for a tribute album. And Elizabeth My Dear is almost a cover of Scarborough Fair.

Floyd?

Can't remember if Joy Division did any covers, but somebody in the pub was confident they hadn't.
Another possible was Genesis?

I checked. They wrote all their own stuff: it's all credited to "Page and Plant". So it must be true.

So I need to know what cover The Smiths did.

New Order, Pulp, Blur (?), blue nile, dire straits

Brian Eno

The Police

Checked using this site:
http://www.coversproject.com/

(but I could still be wrong - of course)

...several covers, including Gary Glitter's Rock & Roll and James Brown's ROck Me Again and Again and Again and Again and Again and Again (Six Times) and probably more that I've forgotten about.

And not Gary Numan either: On Broadway, 1999, U Got The Look...

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does The Police recording Sting's song Demolition Man after Grace Jones had done it disqualify them?

.

I'm guessing.

Portico Quartet

The National

The XX

But I'm sure there will be someone out there in massive world to prove me wrong.

Are a tribute band and still never made a cover, even if you could argue that some of their stuff are perhaps derivative.

The Blue Nile

You could argue they have consistently covered themselves though!

Underworld have been going for over twenty years and have yet to record a cover. Unless, that is, someone out there knows better . . .

Also: Daft Punk.

Elastica?

unless you count their whole careers as cover versions.

.....Abbey.
One 45 in November '67.

Merzbow?
Edward Barton?
Daniel Johnson?
Autechre?
The Fire Engines?
Boards Of Canada?

This is beginning to sound like Dr Volume's Mobile Disco...

Closest they came was nicking 'Scarborough Fair' for their 'Elizabeth my Dear'.....

bands that don't cover songs do it because they can't play anything other than their own compositions.

Adam Ant?
Spandau Ballet?
The Rubettes?
Bee Gees?

Buzzcocks, maybe?
Wire?

Sabbath never recorded a cover version that I am aware of. But then I'm not familiar with any of the crap Sabbath albums in the late 80s and 90s. But there are no covers in the Ozzy Albums nor the Dio ones.

...'Blue Suede Shoes' (rather badly) on a Belgian TV concert in the early 70s. Its one of the few early 70s films of them so I'm guessing its been officially released on DVD by now.

Which means they're disqualified. Unlike the Mahavishnu Orchestra, who made 6 albums (1971-76) and one posthumously released one (1972>1999) with not a single cover on any. I have around 40 bootleg CDS and there's not a single cover there either. Ironically, for such a musically complex bunch, there's now tons of Mahavishnu covers on record - indeed getting on for double figures of entire covers albums - almost all from the last 10 years.

Abba? Have they done any?

I'd have to own one of their records to know for sure.

... don't think they ever did any covers....

Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, CAN, Harmonia, Neu! Black Leather Jesus, Incapacitants, David Sylvian (solo-not Japan), Melek-Tha, Slint?

Neu! covered their own 'Hallogallo' on Neu!2 mostly by speeding up and slowing down the tapes.

CAN did 'Mary, Mary Quite Contrary' on Monster Movie

Slant did a fine cover of 'Cortez The Killer' in their live shows

Wasn't 'Zyclon B Zombie' originally recorded by Gerry And The Pacemakers?

...but I wouldn't have expected any covers from Zappa and Beefheart, even given the volume of Zappa's output.

just guessing ,two of my favourites XTC and ELO definately did

But Puff Daddy, Puffy, Sean John, P Diddy, Diddy, Daft Paddy or another one of him. Got you know, me thinks.

No recorded covers. But then, not many albums recorded compared to the outputs of some mentioned above.

Chuck Berry's 'Nadine' was a regular encore in the earliest of days but only available on bootleg. Quite good actually.

Takes a gamble hoping no-one will a) admit to knowing their catalogue and b) mention Margaret

performs one of Kraftwerk's lesser-known cover versions

Van Der Graaf Generator-but then remembered they did George Martin's 'Theme One'.

Wire did JJ Cale's 'After Midnight' on the Live at the Roxy LP

urr...Tangerine Dream?

Kraftwerk covered the opening notes of Hindermith's flute sonata, but renamed it.

Here, have a listen:

Stone Roses and Pink Floyd definites
Quite a few still subject to verification
Is that correct?

...those Mahavishnu boyos!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%27s_Rockin%27

Ian Dury And The Blockheads?

You'd think they would have done a cover or two but I can't think of any.

Have they ever done anything but cover versions?

(I like this thread)

Unless you are counting the snippet of The Drifters' 'On Broadway' on The Lamb. Not really a cover in my book.

maybe ??

unless you're counting the uncredited nicked bits of Holst on Poseidon.

Right! Unless there's any stray Portugese b-sides I'm unaware of, or any live bootlegs at the Reigate Stripadrome in 1974 that have passed me by, it seems that the group mostly known as 10cc (10 studio albums, some live albums and a few compilations), but also Hotlegs (one album and a couple of 45s), and Doctor Father (one single) never released one cover version in their entire career as non-sessioneers.

They released a few songs here and there that were co-written with later band members, Andrew Gold or Professor Paul Thumbsaloft, but apart from that I cannot find anything from their oeuvre that is borrowed, (pastiches notwithstanding).

The only possible exception is a couple of bespoke Katzensetz/Katz numbers they recorded as uncredited journeyman, but that was before they were a proper band, and I say that it doesn't count.

10cc covered Across The Universe live, I have it on a free CD of Beatles covers from some magazine or other

... well, sort of. They didn't release a cover version while they were a going concern, before they split up for the 3rd or 4th time, and still haven't with their current umpteeth line up, but their one & only cover (Bobby Womack's 'Looking For A Love', if you're interested) was on the expanded 'East Side Story' which I've got as part of the 'Six Of One' boxset.

and a bit obscure but I think I've got all the Gin Blossoms' recordings and I don't believe there's a cover in there.

I'm sure they did The Equals "Baby Come Back" on the NME's Ruby Trax album.

The Pixies? Half Man Half Biscuit?

They probably have, haven't they?

as far as I know did not play any covers

Oh, wait a minute, they may have covered a Howard DeVoto track. I can't think of any though?

and the rest of their ilk rarely did covers

Can't think of a Velvets one at the moment, either

The "proper" line-ups of TD [1] didn't do covers but the dreadful plasticized walking corpse that is today's TD has covered Handel's Largo (as has Lisa Goddard), Purple Haze, Eleanor Rigby, Back in the USSR, Tomorrow Never Knows and Norwegian Wood.

In terms of classical references, here's a bit from Wikipedia that I wrote most of:

Classical music has had some influence on the sound of Tangerine Dream over the years. György Ligeti, Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel and Arcangelo Corelli are clearly visible as dominant influences in the early albums. A Baroque sensibility sometimes informs the more coordinated sequencer patterns, which has its most direct expression in the La Follia section that comes at the very end of the title track of Force Majeure. In live performances, the piano solos often directly quoted from Romantic classical works for piano, such as the Beethoven and Mozart snippets in much of the late '70s- early '80s stage shows. In the bootleg recording of the Mannheim Mozartsaal concert of 1976 (Tangerine Tree volume 13), the first part of the first piece also clearly quotes from Franz Liszt's Totentanz. The first phrase is played on a harpsichord synthesizer patch, and is answered by the second half of the phrase in a flute voicing on a Mellotron. During the 90s, many releases included recordings of classical compositions: Pictures at an Exhibition (on Turn of the Tides), Largo (from Xerxes) (on Tyranny of Beauty), Symphony in A Minor (by J. S. Bach) and Concerto in A Major / Adagio (by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) (both on Ambient Monkeys).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_Dream#Influences

[1] Franke/Froese/Baumann and F/F/Schmoelling

Nothing springs to mind here. Not even a b-side.
There is a version of Strawberry Fields on Fuzzy Warbles, but that doesn't count. Filed under Andy Partridge.

appear to have any, at least to my knowledge (or the coversproject web site), but I'm not a huge aficionado, so confidence is low and expectations of getting shot down are high.

I was getting quite excited about The The for a moment, till I remembered the Hanky Panky album.....

ABC

Martin Fry did some solo covers, but I don't see any under the band name.