Minotaur029 wrote:We've only done one cover in our year-long career...it was "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon...good times...

I've covered that too. And 'Neon Lights' by Kraftwerk. In waltz time, two guitars and bass. And we tried to do Witchita Lineman, but we kind of didn't manage to pull that off. What a surprise.

My old band was going to cover Sorrow - David Bowie for a special 'unplugged' gi at Ronnie Scotts..it sounded great when we practised it with a quartet but..I don't know what happened; why we didn't do it.

My band generally has "Let The Music Play" by Billy Preston somewhere near the beginning of our set.

Last show we did TV On The Radio's "Wolf Like Me" (which is incredibly fun to play) for a friend of mine who was visiting. We also did "All Along The Watchtower" and Radiohead's "Let Down" with a friend's band.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

Barbo wrote:Lay Me Low - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

God, I love this song.

Agreed.

Songs I've covered in the past that stand out as being memorable:

New Order - Sunrise
Pavement - Frontwards
Alice Cooper - Long Way To Go
The Bee-Gees - The Earnest of Being George
The Go-Go's - Head Over Heels
The Damned - Stab Your Back
X - The Hungry Wolf

One year the band I was in played a Halloween show as Joy Division. From what I can remember here is The Young Men's set list:

Disorder
Living in the Ice Age
Warsaw
They Walked in Line
New Dawn Fades
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Ceremony

The band I'm currently in has been playing Bowie's "Five Years."

In high school all we did was play Metallica songs, and we played them very well.

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Am I Evil
Creeping Death
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Four Horsemen
Fade To Black
Seek and Destroy

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Young:

"Gouge Away" Pixies
"Sophisticated Bitch" (cover of fIREHOSE's Public Enemy cover)
"Walk" Pantera

Older:

"Little Pieces" Juliana Hatfield Three
"Underdogs of Nipomo" Archers of Loaf
"Excuse Me While I Drink Myself to Death" Spent
"Sangre de Stephanie" Lifter Puller
"Magnet's Coil" Sebadoh

Currently:

I suck at playing and don't do it anymore. But for a long time I was intrigued with the idea of doing a slowcore version of Andrew W.K.'s "Party Hard"

Hot For Teacher

Beat It

Thriller

Powerhouse (that jazzy thing used in some Loony Tunes with anthropomorphized machines working)

I just remembered that we covered "Nothing" by Negative Approach as well.

"She" The Monkees
"Satisfaction" Cover of the Devo Cover
"Blessed" Simon and Garfunkel

Smash It Up - Damned
I Need You - Kinks
Sorry - Easybeats
A Fire Burns - The Church
I'm Rowed Out - The Eyes
Then She Remembers - Dream Syndicate
Marionette - Mott The Hoople
Squares - Lilys
Heading Out To The Highway - Judas Preist
Say Those Magic Words - The Birds
Hey Mr. Spaceman - The Byrds
Litany - Guadalcanal Diary
Murders in the Rue Morgue - Iron Maiden
Her Head's Revolving - The Three O'Clock
Last Time Around - Del Vettes
Tame Me Tiger - Bonny St. Claire
Queen Bitch - David Bowie
What'cha Gonna Do About It - Small Faces

Entire bands for the local charity "Cover Up"
Gang of Four
Kraftwerk
The Birthday Party
Blondie
Gary Numan

I'm really old.

-A