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some may be early 70's but let's not get technical.....

People Are Strange - Echo and the Bunnymen (the Doors)
Break on Through - The Cure (the Doors)
Like A Hurricane - Mission UK (Neil Young)
Sex Machine - Flying Pickets (James Brown)
Satisfaction - Devo (the Stones)
Paint it Black - Echo, U2 (The Stones)
Helter Skelter - U2 (the Beatles)
Dear Prudence - Siouxie & the Banshees (The Beatles)
The Passenger - Siouxie & the Banshees (??)
I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow (The Strangeloves)
Ball of Confusion - Love and Rockets (The Temptations)
Always Something to Remind Me - Nylons (The Supremes?)
Ziggy Stardust - Bahaus (David Bowie)
In the Year 2525 - Visage - (??)

I'm tired, I'll post more later.

[quote]Originally posted by denlahoya
[br]some may be early 70's but let's not get technical.....
In the Year 2525 - Visage - (??)

You can't forget Spirit in the Sky by Dr. & the Medics (okay originally from 1970), but that's closer to the '60s then the Passenger.

I also don't mind Colourfield - Can't Get Enough of You Baby or Julian Cope - 5 o'clock world or anything on the Creep

Helter Skelter (Beatles)- Siouxsie and the Banshees
White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplaine) - Damned
As Tears Go By (Marianne Faithfull & Rolling Stones) - Psychic TV
Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum) - Nina Hagen, Fuzzbox, & Dr. and the Medics
(I'm Not

Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders (The Kinks)
I Am a Rock - The Church (Simon & Garfunkel)
I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night - The Thought (Electric Prunes)
Eight Miles High - The Thought / Roxy Music (The Byrds)
Little Black Egg - The Cars (The Nightcr

"So Sad About Us" - The Jam (The Who)
"Suspicious Minds" - Fine Young Cannibals (Elvis)
"California Sun" - Ramones (Rivieras)
"I Think We're Alone Now" - Lena Lovich (Tommy James & The Shondells)
"You Can't Hurry Love" - Stray Cats, D.L. Byron (The S

How could we all forget Devo's quirky offerings: "Working in a Coal Mine", "Satisfaction" and "RU Experienced"?

It's probably worth mentioning the seminal bastardization of 60's rock on [b]Third Reich 'N' Roll[/b] by The Residents (circa 1976) -- each

Here's a link to a thread I started a few months ago about basically the same topic: (received some great suggestions!)

http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.as ... over,songs

Okay here's a few more I thought of:

1984 - Nash the Slash
Midnight to six man - Inmates
Do it again - Wall of Voodoo
He ain't heavy - Housemartins

"Secret" by Fingerprintz ("Do You Want to Know a Secret" by the Beatles)
"Alone Again Or" by The Damned (originally by Love, I learned here)
"Song Sung Blue" by Altered Images (originally by Neil Diamond; that was sixties, wasn't it?)
"You Really Got M

Tainted Love - Soft Cell (Gloria Jones)
He Was Really Saying Something - Bananarama (The Velvelettes)
96 Tears - Garland Jeffreys (? and The Mysterians)

Here's a few more I thought of:

"Venus" - Bananarama (The Shocking Blue)
"All Day and All of the Night" - The Stranglers (The Kinks)
"David Watts" - The Jam (The Kinks)
"Heat Wave" - The Jam (Martha & the Vandellas)
"Downtown" - B-52's (Petula Clar

How about Helter Skelter-performed by Secession? This is a great version!!! Secession was a great 80's synth band from New York.

(On a side note, I always liked Motley Crue's version of Helter Skelter better than the original version.)[:D]

Paranoi

how about:

"Live For Today" - Lords of the New Church (the Grass Roots)
"Paint it Black" - the Avengers (Rolling Stones)
"Somebody to Love" - Agent Orange (Jefferson Airplane)
"Fame" - Duran Duran (David Bowie)
"Pass the Dutchie" - Musical Youth (