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Posted: **Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:08 pm**

I was thinking back to when I was doing my radio show, and one night, I did an all-covers spectacular. What are some of your favorites? Here's a few of mine:

Soft Cell-Tainted Love (1964 Gloria Jones Cover)
Bow Wow Wow-I Want Candy (1961 Strangeloves cover)
Cramps-Green Door (1958 Jim Lowe cover)
Blondie-Heroes (1977 Bowie cover)
Ramones-Surfin' Bird (1964 Trashmen)
Lene Lovich-I Think We're Alone Now (1967 Tommy James and the Shondells)
Ikon-The Ballad of Gilligan's Island (1965 TV Show)
Sex Pistols-My Way (1972 Sinatra)
Stranglers-walk on By (1965 Dionne Warwick)
X-Wild Thing (1964 Troggs)
Joan Jett-I Love Rock and Roll (1968 Tommy James)
Billy Idol-Mony Mony (Tommy James)
Martin Gore-Compulsion (1977 Tuxedomoon)
Morrissey-That's Entertainment (1980 The Jam)
David Bowie-China Girl (1977 Iggy Pop)

I have lots more in mind, but I'll give others the chance...

Posted: **Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:08 pm**

Right now, I could only think of these:

"Needles & Pins" by Ramones (this is my top 1 followed by Sex Pistols' rabid rendition of My Way!)

"Some Velvet Morning" by Primal Scream feat. Kate Moss
"People are Strange" by Echo & the Bunnymen (but they also covered "Paint it Black" & I think it's horrible! [V])

Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:17 am**

That's an awesome list. I did a "covers" show once, years ago at KAOS-FM in Olympia, and it was hella fun. Others:

"Paint it Black" - The Avengers (you're right--the Echo version was baaaad)
"Song Sung Blue" - Altered Images
"Fame" - Duran Duran
"Come Up and See Me (Make Me Smile)" - Duran Duran
"Dear Prudence" - Siouxsie
"The Passenger" - Siouxsie
"LOst Little Girl" - Siouxsie.....ah heck, Siouxsie's entire [i]Through the Looking Glass[/i] album!
"Sooner or Later" - Pete Townsend (not NW, but great song anyway)
"Tomorrow Never Knows" - Danielle Dax
"Our Lips Are Sealed" - Fun Boy Three
"Dead Souls" - Nine Inch Nails
"Red Red Wine" - UB40
"King of the Road" - REM
"Venus" - Bananarama (you know, personally I can't stand this song)
"Always Something There to Remind Me" - Naked Eyes
"Slippery People" - either Talking Heads or the Staple Singers; I'm not sure whose version came first
"Love of the Common People" - Paul Young (who did this originally?)
"Fools Rush In" - Bow Wow Wow
"Live For Today" - Lords of the New Church
"I Drove All Night" - Cyndi Lauper
"Swear" - Sheena Easton (blech! original is 1,000 times better!)

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Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:33 am**

The English Beat ~ Tears of a Clown
The Feelies ~ Paint It Black, Everybody's Got Something to Hide ('cept for Me and My Monkey)
801 ~ Tomorrow Never Knows (best Beatles cover ever IMO)
XTC ~ All Along the Watchtower
Elvis Costello ~ I can't Stand Up (For Falling Down)
Graham Parker ~ I Want You Back
Siouxsie & the Banshees ~ Helter Skelter
The Clash ~ Police and Thieves, I Fought the Law
The Jam ~ Heat Wave
Talking Heads ~ Take Me to the River

Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:42 am**

Springsteen-This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie)

Bananarama-Venus (The Shocking Blue)

Funkytown-Pseudo Echo (Lipps, Inc.)

Exposé - Point of No Return (Exposé) [Didn't you love bands defined by their producers rather than the performing artists?]

Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:53 am**

A few more...

The Cars - Little Black Egg (The Nightcrawlers)
The Communards - Never Can Say Goodbye (Gloria Gaynor)
The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way (Thelma Houston)
The Dance Society - 2000 Light Years From Home (Rolling Stones)
The English Beat - Tears Of A Clown (The Miracles)
Feargal Sharkey - It's All Over Now (Rolling Stones)
Oingo Boingo - You Really Got Me (The Kinks) see <a href="http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4909">NTT20[/i]</a>
Pseudo Echo - Funky Town (Lipps, Inc.)
Red Rockers - Eve Of Destruction (Barry McGuire)
Red Rockers - Blood From A Stone (The Hooters)
The Romantics - She's Got Everything (The Kinks)
The Smithereens - Time Won't Let Me (The Outsiders)
Strawberry Switchblade - Jolene (Dolly Parton)
Taco - Puttin' On The Ritz (Irving Berlin)
Thompson Twins - Revolution (Beatles)

Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:25 am**

Song To The Siren(Tim Buckley)[This Mortal Coil]
Sound Of Silence(Simon&Garfunkel)/Knights In White Satin[The Dickies]
Right Now(Mel Torme)[The Creatures]
My Way(sinatra)[Nina Hagen]
Splitting In Two(Adverts was it???)[The Chameleons]
Tainted Love[Coil]
Funkytown[World Domination Enterprises]
Like A Virgin[Lords Of The New Church]
Private Life(The Pretenders)[Grace Jones]

The furthest reaches of my mind are currently inaccessible due to being severely tired. This is all I can come up with for now.

j0hn.......

Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:05 pm**

I like Linda Ronstadt's cover of Costello's "Girls Talk" and her cover of Chip Taylor's "I Can't Let Go", both from her "Mad Love" album (1980).

Chameleons U.K. do an excellent cover of the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows".

Stranglers version of "Walk On By" absolutely ROCKS.

Posted: **Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:23 pm**

Ben mentioned Julian Cope's "5 O'Clock World" on another thread, cool cover of the Vogues tune.

Posted: **Sun Mar 20, 2005 12:35 am**

The Clash also do a killer version of Vince Taylor and the Playboys 'Brand New Cadillac', off London Calling...

And how about...

The Flying Lizards - The Beatles 'Money'
Grace Jones - The Normal's 'Warm Leatherette'
Bauhaus - Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust'
Devo - The Stone's 'Satisfaction'
Dickies - Moody Blues 'Nights in White Satin'

Stranglers also do a great version of Question Mark and the Mysterions '96 Tears'

Posted: **Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:39 am**

Shaun Cassidy - The entire WASP album. Produced by Todd Rundgren. Really.

Posted: **Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:11 am**

The Art of Noise - "Peter Gunn" Theme
Heaven 17 - "Are Everything" (by the Buzzcocks)
The Damned - "Alone Again Or" ( by Love[?])
Fingerprintz - "Do You Wanna Know a Secret) ( by The Beatles)
The Jam - "David Watts" (by the Kinks)
Sparks - "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" (by the Beatles, this version is so lush and sickeningly drippingly sweet, it has got to be a satire)

Also, I believe the Skids did a cover of "Golden Years" by David Bowie (they did some Bowie tune on the "Working for the Yankee Dollar" double 45 set, but I never heard it. Any good?)

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:33 am**

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
 Check out this sweeeet cover of the Smiths "This Charming Man" by Stars, a Montreal band that some friends up there just turned me on to:[/quote]

Not my cuppa tea, dreamy repetitiveness is just grafted on top, still not without charm. Do you work for i-tunes? (that's rhetorical)

REM - Superman (Clique '69), it's a definite improvement over the original.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:15 am**

Fine Young Cannibals did a good cover of "Ever Fallen In Love" by the Buzzcocks. The original is still untouchable however.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2006 7:57 am**

[quote][i]Originally posted by i_like_lectric_motors[/i]
 Shaun Cassidy - The entire WASP album. Produced by Todd Rundgren. Really.
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When are you gonna send me a copy of it? Dang it all!!!

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