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07-14-2002, 03:13 PM
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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 
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???)
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07-14-2002, 07:07 PM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | I've never heard anyone cover "Manic Mechanic" by ZZ Top. I love that song! Also, "The Ocean", by Zep.
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07-14-2002, 08:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Austin, TX | | | I never hear any versions of Buffalo Springfeild's "For What It's Worth"
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07-14-2002, 08:40 PM
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07-15-2002, 07:03 AM
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07-15-2002, 07:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Flagstaff, AZ | | | 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!
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07-15-2002, 11:38 AM
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07-15-2002, 11:51 AM
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Take on Me. | Quote: 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.
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07-15-2002, 12:36 PM
| | | | 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. |
07-15-2002, 01:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wichita Kansas - Smell the Whe | | | Oh ya..that's right. Reel Big Fish did Take on me also right?
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07-15-2002, 01:11 PM
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Oh ya..that's right. Reel Big Fish did Take on me also right? | Yeah they did. Great song. |
07-15-2002, 01:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | | | 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... |
07-15-2002, 01:47 PM
|  | Workin' hard at hardly workin'. Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Appleton, Swissconsin | | | 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? |
07-15-2002, 01:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Flagstaff, AZ | | | Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is just screaming for a genre-bending cover, methinks.
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07-15-2002, 02:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Near Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | | 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?
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07-15-2002, 06:43 PM
| | | | 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.
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07-15-2002, 07:22 PM
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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. 
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07-15-2002, 07:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Seattle, WA | | Quote: 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.
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07-15-2002, 07:50 PM
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07-15-2002, 09:26 PM
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