Saw the thread for MOST covered, and thought this would be a good way to get us all thinking...and I'm not just suggesting tunes where we can jump up and down on our monitors w/ our heads back while we FUNK either :cool:

There's a few tunes I've heard that just have a "riff" that just works...

Fool for Your Stockings (ZZ Top)
Sail on Sailor (Beach Boys)(But imagine it w/ a Blues feel???)

I've never heard anyone cover "Manic Mechanic" by ZZ Top. I love that song! Also, "The Ocean", by Zep.

I never hear any versions of Buffalo Springfeild's "For What It's Worth"

The Saftey Dance.

Take on Me.

I've always wanted to do this with a band of mine, but no one ever bites: the "Doctor Who" theme song from the Tom Baker years. Synthy weirdness and driving, gallopping bass!

wakka wakka it's the muppets.

Originally posted by gruffpuppy
Take on Me.

Originally posted by old_skool
The Safety Dance.

Local band in town called King Me does both of those. S-D is a pretty cool song IMHO.

take on me was done by mxpx as well.

old songs are always good like "every breath you take" by the pistols. thats one my band covered.

Oh ya..that's right. Reel Big Fish did Take on me also right?

Originally posted by tufnuts
Oh ya..that's right. Reel Big Fish did Take on me also right?

Yeah they did. Great song.

Good point on "The Ocean"...

I would still love to see covers of "Paranoid Android" (radiohead) or "A day in the Life"...hmm, i'll have to talk to my band about that...

I could never get any of my bandmates to do "Jessie's Girl," even though it's pretty easy and a definite babe-getter.

How about "Kokomo," by The Beach Boys?

Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is just screaming for a genre-bending cover, methinks.

(I'm serious.)

(Seriously.)

Jessies Girl! that is a good good song... that rick springfield...... i would like to do "we built this city" i think that song is by starship?

Jesse's Girl would be a great ole' song to cover. My band use to cover 867-5309 (Jenny) and people use to go nuts when our guitarist broke into that opening riff.

I agree about the Beach Boys stuff, but your band better have some top notch harmonies going on to do that. I did see a band once that covered some Beach Boys and did it well.

Originally posted by Chancelors_Tool
wakka wakka it's the muppets.

There's a great cover band in Seattle called "Herding Cats" that does the theme to the Muppet Show. It rules. :D

Originally posted by relman
Good point on "The Ocean"...

I would still love to see covers of "Paranoid Android" (radiohead) or "A day in the Life"...hmm, i'll have to talk to my band about that...

The Beatniks, another Seattle cover band, does a completely and utterly amazing version of "A Day in the Life"; and I'm super-critical of anyone covering the Beatles.

Originally posted by old_skool
The Saftey Dance.

WINNER

Stairway to Heaven

bp13

take on me was actually covored by mxpx for there album hmmm "on the covor ep" there first album they put out..
its pretty cool
ihaven't heard the real big fish version..
I always would like to hear a covor of
norwegian wood by the beatles or else
Tales of Brave Ulysys by cream
I would like to hear tool covor it.. that would be sooooooo kickass!
justin could use a bass wah on it.. n gah..it would be awesome!
I WANT THEM TO DO IT!
even though i know he wont read it.. im gonna write manyard (manyard@toolband.com)
I thinK?
to play it sometime.. maybe when i see em the 31st =D

the "Doctor Who" theme song from the Tom Baker years

One of my long lost bands used this as our opening tape. Cool song - especially if you're a fan of the show like I was! One song that you don't hear much, but I think my band is going to do it is "Sultans of Swing" from Dire Straits.

Originally posted by Nick Curley

norwegian wood by the beatles or else


Cornershop did a hindi version of it :D








Damn I love Cornershop

Did Popsters A1 not cover take on me recently as well? (please don't burn me too badly)

Men-an-tol by the levellers would always be great to cover as the bass kicks in on the chorus the whole song just comes alive a real crown mover!!

Krakkers

Originally posted by bassplayer13
Stairway to Heaven

bp13

Frank Zappa has made a wonderfull ska kind of cover of that song. It can be found on "Best band you never heard in your life". It's the last song on disc 2.
The whole brass section plays the solo.:D

best take on me cover is by his band called cap'n'jazz. they were a chicago indie band that broke up to form joan of arc, promise ring and american football. they have a two disc discography available, so go get it. as for covers...

billy jean- michael jackson

shout at the devil- motley crue

anything by thin lizzy

Originally posted by dudemeister


Frank Zappa has made a wonderfull ska kind of cover of that song. It can be found on "Best band you never heard in your life". It's the last song on disc 2.
The whole brass section plays the solo.:D

Incredible isn't it?
I have a friend that thinks Page is the best guitar player that lived, lives. He always went off about how only he could play stairway and do it justice.
Frankley he was quite upset when I played that track for him. They nail it.

Elephant Talk....Crimson

My Beach, by The Surf Punks,,hahaahha The Surf Punks were so lame........this song was the theme to my life back in the early 80's...Locals only! Go home!....Oh! I haven't heard "Free Bird" done in a long while....Hahahhahha!!!!! Who did that song Stair Way to 7-11? they use to play it on 91-X.and KROQ,,, it was to funny!!!!! :) In a band that I was in we coverd "Woman" By The Anti Nowhere League.....
I kind of like that song....

dream weaver by gary wright

wanted it so much my band did it. first verse and chorus have nice blend of keyboard and bass, then on the second verse it kicks in, full out punk cover style. insert metal guitar solo and its audio bliss.

oh yeah, and we're working on a cover of bang your head by quiet riot.


rock

My band does safety dance!

two tickets to paradise - eddie money

Originally posted by relman
Good point on "The Ocean"...

I would still love to see covers of "Paranoid Android" (radiohead) or "A day in the Life"...hmm, i'll have to talk to my band about that...


try and download Brad Mehldau's version of Paranoid Android for solo piano, its truly amazing...i'm not sure if its ever been released,only played live although he has released Radiohead's Exit Music for a Film which is amazing too bc its with his trio...

Mike

www.mp3.com/spookyjohnson

Originally posted by lushfreak
Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is just screaming for a genre-bending cover, methinks.

(I'm serious.)

(Seriously.)

Actually, it has already been done. A Fargo band redid the song, changed some lyrics around, made it heavier while still retaining the same melody. It sounds really cool. I wish there was a way I could send you a copy of it.

Major Tom (Coming Home) by Peter Schilling.

I happen to like that one. Seriously.;)

Originally posted by grindmore
billy jean- michael jackson

Believe it or not, WC Handy Award Winners Mel Brown & the Homewreckers did a jazz/blues version of this on their CD "Homewreckin' done live!! You need to hear this! Check out the CD info. (http://www.electrofi.com/homewreckin.htm) :cool: :cool:

On Bass - Dr Al Richardson - Phd in quantum physics - Dr of Bassics!!:D

How about ABACAB by Genesis?

Always thought that would be a cool cover.

Originally posted by babadingding
Elephant Talk....Crimson

Hell yeah!! That would be cool... Along with "Frame by Frame".

My band did a cover of "Big Rock Candy Mountain." Kept the first verse pretty similar, then totally punked out the rest of the song.

"Carry on 'til tomorrow" - Badfinger
"The Sounds of Silence" - Simon & Garfunkel
"This is what I believe in" - Adrian Belew

Originally posted by shackman



try and download Brad Mehldau's version of Paranoid Android for solo piano, its truly amazing...i'm not sure if its ever been released,only played live although he has released Radiohead's Exit Music for a Film which is amazing too bc its with his trio...

Mike

www.mp3.com/spookyjohnson

I didn't think it was that great....his improvisations/add-ons sound like Bach Excersizes.

Shackman,

I've been trying to find that for months! I heard a bit of it on NPR and have been searching ever since. Thanks!

Hang On St. Christopher by Tom Waits should definitely be covered by somebody. Or Who Could it Be Now by Men at Work.
A band I was in did a surf/punk version of Neil Diamond's Solitary Man.

I want you back - jackson 5

Maiden's Milk by The Meat Puppets

Hang Tough by New Kids on the Block ;)

Journey - Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'(and the whole thing, not part of it like the Dream Theater medly.)

Me, Myself and I by De La Soul

Whoomp, There it Is!!(Tag Team)


Great songs, eh?

I'm going to do a stripped down blues version of "Paid my dues" by Anastacia for my choir. Me on bass, a friend of mine on guitar, a singer with both of us doing backup harmonies. At least it will be fun to see who can guess what song we're playing. :D

Seriously, I think it could be an amazing blues song.

The Theme from "The Munsters" There are some other 60s' and 70s' TV themes that had some great bass lines. Just wish I could remeber of some of them.
I would love to cover "The Real Me" (The Who) but can't seem to get any one else to cooperate. Not even on "My Generation" either.

Slave To My Dick, by The Subhumans. Actually I was in a thash band in late 80's that coverd that song....

Originally posted by 311fan2001
Me, Myself and I by De La Soul

That's because people are already covering P-Funk's, "Not Just Knee Deep"...;)

Good call on "Sail On Sailor" by the first poster...my band has been doing it, by the way.

My picks:

"Dragon Attack" by Queen
"Driven To Tears" by The Police

Also...the "Captain Scarlet Theme" from the TV show of the same name.

Dolly Parton covers Stairway to Heaven on her new CD. I haven't heard it but it's gotten really good reviews. I doubt it sounds much like Zep.

'josie'

steely dan...

:D

we're working on it....

:)

"Little miss Lover"

Hendrix