Which songs have your band covered? (Is that English?)

One Band:
"Cold Milk Bottle", The Mountain Goats.
I think it was called "When You're Old and Lonely" by the Magnetic Fields, who I hate.

Another Band:
"Should I", The Cheater Slicks, although I think it was a cover for them too.
"Mannequin", Wire, boy did that feel stupid.

I never got to choose. But I always played it exactly like it was recorded. I copied the "Should I" guitar solo exactly. I was good at copying. I am also good at photocopying.

(You know those reams of attached paper that old printers used, with the perforated edges with holes? What was that paper called? I would like some.)

In chronological order, across 15 years and 10-or-so bands:

Metallica : Almost everything off the first four albums
Slayer : South of Heaven, Angel of Death
Coroner : Mistress of Deception
Sepultura : Beneath the Remains
Ozzy : Crazy Train
Ministry : So What, Thieves, Stigmata
Primus : Jerry Was a Racecar Driver
Naked Raygun : Home of the Brave
Pegboy : My Youth
Nirvana : Smells Like Teen Spirit, Territorial Pissings
Pearl Jam : Alive
RHCP : Give it Away, Suck My Kiss

A "cover" of the Cure's "Friday I'm in Love" that sounded absolutely nothing like the original and included references Bennigans and Denny's. It was actually called "Victor I'm in Love", as it was in some fashion about Victor Villareal, ending with the line "Victor, I'm in love with you". Hey, don't ask me!

PJ Harvey : Joe
Melvins : It's Shoved
Pixies : Debaser

A Beatles cover band (Flat-top and the Dirtburgers) that played about 2 hours of Beatles covers at a one-off suburban church's summerfest. I don't think I could even remember all of them. Let me just say there was something very satisfying about playing Helter Skelter and Happiness is a Warm Gun at a church, wearing a Pestilence t-shirt with this picture on it:



'99, my best friend and I did an open mic night at the Gallery Cabaret, where we serenaded a bunch of burnt-out old hippies with the song "Drugs Stink" from the film Bob Roberts. The sound guy came up to us after our set and made some reference to one of the greatest lines: "dope-smoking morons, dirty hippie freaks". It was funny.

Beatles : If You've Got Troubles (which people somehow thought was an original?!?!)
Stone Ponies : Different Drum
The Cars : Just What I Needed

A side project called Eads and Glebe that was an all-cover band that made wonderfully terrible mockeries of a bunch of classic-type songs.

The band I'm in now, I really want to cover just this one specific song, but neither of the other guys in the band have expressed any sort of drive or interest in making it happen, so it likely never will. I don't know how well I could pull off the guitar solos anyway. They're maybe rad beyond my means. I've also been thinking about seeing if they'd be down with covering a Voivod song instead. I could be really happy doing that if we did it well.

Next year I plan on doing some open-mic type stuff, off the radar, either guitar or baritone-- I haven't decided yet-- just for the experience. I love the idea of playing solo with no friends of mine even knowing I'm playing... playing alone to a room filled only with strangers. One of the songs I will for sure be playing is your man Brokaw's "Recidivist".

Hey, cover songs, they can be so nice!

WHOA, where to start? Well, notably I guess, we did the entire Replacements "Stink" EP - retitled 'Dink'. Other covers:
Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings
Devo - Gut Feeling
Talking Heads - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
Randy Newman - Mama Told Me Not To Come
Neil Young - Needle and the Damage Done
Melvins - Koollegged
Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore
Cheap Trick - He's A Whore
Neil Young - Cowgirl In The Sand
Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song
U2 - With Or Without You
Replacements - Rattlesnake
Nazareth - Razzamatazz
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Loverboy - Lady of the 80's
Husker Du - Push the Button
Led Zeppelin - Wearing and Tearing
Led Zeppelin - Livin' Lovin' (She's Just A Woman)
France Gall - Les Sucettes
Pointer Sisters - Slow Hand
Spoon - Chloroform
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Grant Hart - Roller Rink
Teardrop Explodes - Reward
Max Webster - Here Among The Cats
Secret Shine - Loveblind
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
Husker Du - Sorry Somehow
Mission of Burma - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate

Looks like we were a cover band, but that's over 12 years/16-18 albums...

Let's see if i remember everything from this current band:

Prince, "Sign O' The Times"
The Hawaii Show, "Super Fucked Up"
Stevie Wonder, "Uptight (Everything's Alright)"
Mission of Burma, "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate"
Killdozer, "The Buzzard"
The Go-Gos, "We Got the Beat"
Modern Machines, "Ayy Paisano!"
Big Black, "Sleep!"
Takako Minekawa, "Spin Spider Spin"

My previous band covered "I Could Own You" by Brainiac, and the band before that did a really embarrassing "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals.

1) Joy to the world
2) On Eagles Wings

Christina Agulera (sp.) - "Beautiful"
Prince - "Purple Rain" album in its entirety
Cardigans - "Lovefool"
Led Zeppelin - "Dazed and Confused"
Linda Ronstadt - "When will I be Loved?"
Tears for Fears - "Head over Heals"
Ween - "Even if you don't"
Violent Femmes - "Confessions"
Big Star - "Thirteen"
Lemonheads - "My Drug Buddy"

Dinosaur Jr. - "The Lung"

China Pig - "Old Man"

G'nu Fuz - "Sleepytown"

Monsterland - "Get out of My Head"

Codeine - "Realize"

Joy Division - "Disorder"

The Police - "Truth Hits Everybody"

I'm working on a cover of The Cure's "All Cat's Are Gray" with operatic vocals replacing the keyboards...

Ho, boy. Far too many to remember them all.

"Ain't too Proud to Beg" by not TLC. (Temps?)
Some song from the Leonard Cohen produced by Phil Spector album.
Something by Hawkwind
Something by Billy Bragg
Something by The Who
"Who do you love?"
"It's the End (of the World (As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)))" by REM
"Are you a boy or are you a girl?"
"Straighten up and fly right"
"Knock me a kiss"
"Yellowjacket" by the Ventures
"Island Uprising"
"Summertime"
"Born in the USA" by Springsteen
"Hungry Heart" by Springsteen
"Angel from Montgomery"
"Caribou" by Pixies
"Dancing in the Dark" by Springsteen
"I think we're alone now" by Tiffany James and the Shondells
"Modern World" by Modern Lovers
"(I don't want to go to) Chelsea" by Elvis Costello and the Attractions
"Auld Lang Syne"
"Wild Thing" by the Troggs/"Wild Thing" by Tone Loc (Medley)
"Regulate" by Warren G. and Nate Dogg
"London Dungeon" by Misfits


That's probably more than half of them. I was in one cover band, that did vocal pop/jazz standards (see Knock me a Kiss, Summertime, etc. above). Covers are fun.

DrAwkward wrote:Let's see if i remember everything from this current band:

We also once did Dr. Octagon's "Earth People," because Magoo was there and he knew the words.

1st band...
"Highway to Hell" by AC/DC
"I Can't Find My Mind" by the Cramps
i can't remember any others...that was too long ago.

Next band...
"Teenage Timekiller" by Rudimentary Peni
the Terminator 2 theme music I think... i can't remember.

Next band...
"I Got A Man" can't remember who it was by...somebody on a 60s comp
"United" by Judas Priest
"Strychnine" by the Sonics
"Hold On I'm Coming" by Sam & Dave

i know there were lots more. but basically, if we never recorded a song i don't even remember playing it.