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Cover that
Posted by Austin on 26 January 2011 - 10:01pm.
Every now and then I hear a song and think - "that's a good song by A, if B did a version, it would be really good."
Don't Pay the Ferryman by Chris De Burgh - would be a great Slade song.
Walking on the Milky Way by OMD - would be a great Oasis song.
What other songs are crying out to be covered and by who(m)?
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Rod Stewart
to cover Grand Drive's Talking In Your Sleep
Andy Gray and Richard Keys
to cover Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves
A couple...
I always wanted to hear Gold by Prince covered by Oasis - in fact, I always suspected that he pinched the chorus from them.
A good friend of mine once said that he thought The Replacements' Unsatisfied would have sounded awesome if it had been covered by Nirvana. I think he's probably right.
This Must Be Love by Phil Collins
covered by John Martyn. Bit late now.
Nick Cave's 'Into My Arms'
by Tom Waits.
Here comes the Night
Here comes the night (evergreen 'Them' favourite)would be great as a duet for Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen. Elvis as the petulant, jilted voice in the verse and then Bruce comes in for the 'Woah Woah Woah...' and in to the chorus.
Be blinding that.
(note: there is a bootleg in existence of Bruce giving this song a run through at a soundcheck, but it's done in crap, slightly reggae style with 'The Band That Wasn't The E Street Band')
Rick Rubin was asked
which song he wished he'd got Johnny Cash to sing before he died. It was "A Place In The Sun". Fuck it would have been good. Just sing a couple of lines to yourself and imagine JC's old gravelly voice. Makes me weep just to think about it.
I can't hear
'Grand Canyon'by the Magnetic Fields without hearing Emmylou Harris singing it.
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Marc
I've always thought that Marc Almond would do a good version Of DDDBM&T's Last Night in Soho.
Bit of a song swap
I always thought Big Me by the Foo Fighters sounded like a Lemonheads song. In turn, Something's Missing by the Lemonheads sound like an early Foos track.
Pavement's Box Elder sounded like The Wedding Present but they spotted that and covered it.
Since I've Been Loving You (Led Zep)
performed live by Portishead would be sensational.
I always wanted to hear them doing...
... "Supersonic" by Oasis.
Frank Sinatra
doing Costello's Almost Blue
That's odd, I was thinking about this just yesterday ...
... 70's era Stevie Wonder doing a Superstition/Sir Duke flavoured version of Thin Lizzy's Emerald. Can you imagine those guitar lines played by a horn section!
PJ Harvey...
... doing "Whole Lotta Love."
Van the Man
doing The Waterboy's "This Is The Sea"
Cat Power....
...doing "Take A Chance On Me".
Battles...
...doing "Battery" by Metallica. It'd be AMAZING.
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight by
The Beautiful South
Would have been good.
On the subject...
...of the much under-mentioned Mr Heaton, I'd love to hear Elbow do "Let Love Speak Up Itself".
Sandy Denny
doing a duet with Nick Cave on 'Henry Lee'. Unfortunately the judges disagreed.
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
to sing " 1952 Vincent Black Lightning " I´d pay to hear that