joe royal 4:55 Sun Aug 2
Punk/indie/metal covers of popular songs.
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Want to make up a playlist and am looking for ideas along the lines of
Streets of London - ANWL The impossible dream - carter USM Sound of silence - disturbed Prob chuck in bubbles as well.
Guessing THE SPLATTS might make an appearance.
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WHU(Exeter)
2:50 Tue Aug 4
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The Fall...didn't know that about 'I'm going to Spain'
I always thought Bremen Nacht was pretty much identical to the chords used in one of the songs in Spinal Tap as well?
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Gloucester Iron
1:40 Tue Aug 4
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The Foo Fighters - Baker Street. Thank me later...
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White Pony
12:49 Tue Aug 4
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Indeed - could have listed the whole album really.
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MaryMillingtonsGhost
12:48 Tue Aug 4
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White Pony 12:20
Surprised you forgot Ghosts (Japan) fella.
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White Pony
12:20 Tue Aug 4
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Deftones - No Ordinary Love Deftones - Drive Deftones - The Chauffeur
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
12:06 Tue Aug 4
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geoffpikey 7:58 Sun Aug 2
A bearded, bald, bereted, 70 year old Thompson performing, 'Oops, I Did It Again!' is pure joy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WGsMplGxU
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WHU(Exeter)
12:01 Tue Aug 4
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Nouvelle Vague used to do a lot of good punk/alternative covers, until it sounded like they'd started to aim most of their new songs at car adverts
Watson Twins - Just Like Heaven
Galaxie 500 - ceremony
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JOHNNY V
10:59 Tue Aug 4
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Chris Cornell - Nothing Compares 2 U Search it on YouTube
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Far East Hammer
10:55 Tue Aug 4
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Butthole Surfers - American Woman Coil - Tainted Love UK Subs - She's Not There ANWL - Streets of London Big Black - The Model Blaggers ITA - House of the Fascist Scum (was "Rising Sun") and Guns of Brixton Dead Boys - Hey Little Girl Leather Nun - Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) MC5 - Ramblin' Rose, I Want You Right Now, Fire of Love Gun Club - Fire of Love Frank Sidebottom - far too many to list out individually
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Far East Hammer
10:55 Tue Aug 4
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Butthole Surfers - American Woman Coil - Tainted Love UK Subs - She's Not There ANWL - Streets of London Big Black - The Model Blaggers ITA - House of the Fascist Scum (was "Rising Sun") and Guns of Brixton Dead Boys - Hey Little Girl Leather Nun - Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) MC5 - Ramblin' Rose, I Want You Right Now, Fire of Love Gun Club - Fire of Love Frank Sidebottom - far too many to list out individually
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theaxeman
10:16 Tue Aug 4
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She's Not There - UK Subs
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Darby_
7:08 Tue Aug 4
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Speaking of due Fall, I had no idea that ‘I’m going to Spain’ was a cover taken from Kenny Everett’s Worst Songs Ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL1jj1nJzwQ
Some would say that it’s not a surprise that the Fall could cover a song from a Worst Songs Ever compilation and people wouldn’t notice the difference.
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joe royal
5:53 Tue Aug 4
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Leeshere 3:18 Mon Aug 3
That is worse than Marilyn Manson‘s version of tainted love.
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yngwies Cat
10:20 Mon Aug 3
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Dread Zeppelin - The Immigrant Song
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Swiss.
7:07 Mon Aug 3
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Vexed 8:28 Sun Aug 2
One of my favs but I'd argue that The Kingsmen cover is one of the first punk songs as a cover of the soul classic.
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PostmanPissed
6:38 Mon Aug 3
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Down On Farm - covered by Guns N Roses on the Spaghetti Incident album, originally performed by UK Subs.
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ironsofcanada
3:31 Mon Aug 3
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Not real a cover as much as an adaption - but the Dead Kennedys take on the Dan White murders with - I Fought the Law
Reel Big Fish (mostly punkish ska) do a few good ones.
- Hungry Like the Wolf in swinging lounge ska is pretty good and funny
Brown Eyed Girl
and Take on Me.
On a slightly different vein, Paul Anka, 60's pop star turned Vegasy lounge singer, did an album in the early 2000s I believe called Rock Swing which are lounge version of some classic rock/alternative songs:
It's My Life Eye of the Tiger Wonderwall Black Hole Sun Smells Like Teen Spirit Lovecats
among others.
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Leeshere
3:18 Mon Aug 3
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Cradle of Filth’s cover of Heaven 17’s 80’s classic Temptation takes some beating!
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mallard
1:22 Mon Aug 3
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The White Stripes - Jolene
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Darlo Debs
1:17 Mon Aug 3
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You might find some you like among this lit JR
https://amp-www-complex-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/2012/08/the-50-best-indie-covers-of-classic-rock-songs?amp_js_v=a3&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15964501685909&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.complex.com%2Fpigeons-and-planes%2F2012%2F08%2Fthe-50-best-indie-covers-of-classic-rock-songs
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dm
1:04 Mon Aug 3
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Gary Holton and Adam & the Ants, both did covers of Catch a Falling Star
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