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Played covers live for the first time a couple of weeks ago, at The Annual Damn You! Christmas Covers Party in the beautiful medieval city of Nottingham, England.

Songs performed:

Gary Numan - Cars
Devo Medley: Gates of Steel/Girl U Want
Buggles/The Velvet Underground Medley - Video Killed The Radio Star/I'm Waiting For My Man

Shexy/Noisy video of one and a half Devo songs

We played a friend's wedding in November, and I think we're keeping the following in rotation for future sets:
"Come On Down To My Boat" - Every Mother's Son
"Bend Me, Shape Me" - The American Breed
"Some Kinda Wonderful" - Soul Brothers Six

And after last Friday's gig, we can officially add "Squealer" by AC/DC to the list.

Walk Away Renee - Left Banke
Great White Buffalo - Ted Nugent
Gratitude - Beastie Boys
Song Remains the Same - Zeppelin
Static - Jawbox
Anything, Anything - Dramarama
Don't Want to Know if You are Lonely - Husker Du
Just Got Paid - ZZ Top
In the City - The Jam

I think that's it

Edit: Sin City - AC/DC

We used to do shed loads of covers until we started writing our own stuff. Most of them we only did once or twice.

The-bad-old-days:
Sugar Sugar - The Archies
Moon Over Marin - Dead Kennedys
53rd & 3rd - Ramones
Wet My Bed - Stooges
Kill The Poor - Dead Kennedys
Wasted - Black Flag
New Rose - Damned
Agitated - Electric Eels

The not-as-bad-fairly-new-days:
I Wanna Be Your Dog - Stooges
12XU - Wire
Where Eagles Dare and Hybrid Moments - Misfits
Okey Cokey
Hate The Police - Dicks
Little Man With A Gun In His Hand - Minutemen
C'mon Everybody - Eddie Cochran

And a real long list of others we've played in practises, soundchecks etc.

A huge list of covers...
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
Gut Feeling - Devo
Thank You For Sending Me An Angel - Talking Heads
Assasination Attempt - that band on..."Let Them Eat Jellybeans"...?
Folsom Prison Blues - John Cash
Mama Told Me Not To Come - Randy Newman (from the NEWMAN version not 3 Dog Night)
The Needle And The Damage Done - Neil Young
Kool Legged - Melvins
A Zeppelin "Medley" (Gallows Pole and Battle Of Evermore)
He's A Whore - Cheap Trick
Cowgirl In The Sand - Neil Young
Academy Fight Song - Mission of Burma
With Or Without You - U2
Rattlesnake - Replacements
Celebrity Skin - Hole
Razzamataz - Nazareth
Lady Of The 80s - Loverboy
Push The Button - Husker Du
The entire "Stink" EP by the Replacements
Cracked Actor - David Bowie
Punch Drunk - Husker Du
Wearin' and Tearin' - Zeppelin
Les Sucettes - France Gall
Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
Chloroform - Spoon
Powerslave - Iron Maiden
Roller Rink - Grant Hart
Reward - Teardrop Explodes
Here Among The Cats - Max Webster
Loveblind - Secret Shine
Sorry Somehow - Husker Du
That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Mission of Burma
Mongoloid - Devo
Divide and Conquer - Husker Du
Annette's Got The Hits - Red Cross

Your Cap'n Speakin' wrote:Courtship of Eddie's Father theme

Harry Nilsson. I have extremely fond memories of watching that show when I was a youngster.

Camaro wrote:

DrAwkward wrote:Let's see...

Prince - "Sign o' the Times" and "Kiss"
Stevie Wonder - "Uptight (Everything's Allright)"
Takako Minekawa - "Spin Spider Spin"
Modern Machines - "Ay, Paisano!"
Big Black - "Sleep!"
Go-Gos - "We Got the Beat"
Mission of Burma - "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate"
and most recently, Joan Jett/Gary Glitter - "Do Ya Wanna Touch Me?"

What did the Pop Machine do for our half-assed Poster Children tribute? "Love"? I forgot about that one as well. We stumbled through "Dream Small."

"Do you know who the first punk rock band was?"
"? and the mysterians?"
"NO! The WHO!!!"

The Pop Machine covered "I Could Own You" by Brainiac, but I can't remember if we got to it before the flabby assed bar matron kicked us off stage after screaming at us.

i was in a band for one day back in college (early 90's). due to nepotism (the drummer's cousin was a flake but they couldn't bring themselves to can him) i was released from duty after one practice. we covered a bad religion song; something off of "suffer."

Can't escape myself - The Sound

I wish i was a pretty girl - Robyn Hitchcock

I hate the Countryside - The Fall

Sick City Sometimes - Buzzcocks

Midget Submarines - Swell Maps

It's a rainy day - Faust

Every Jesus and mary chain song.

Ripple - The Church

We tried "Your thunder and your lightning" by L. Hazlewood,
it never really got off the ground though.



These are the ones that i enjoy playing.

simmo wrote:Buggles/Video Killed The Radio Star

First (and better) done by Bruce Wooley and the Camera Club.