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Fantasy Covers

Posted at 12:51 PM on February 23, 2007 by Jacquie Fuller (10 Comments)

(I could have come up with a really sleazy double-entendre for the title of this entry, but I'm not feeling particularly creative today.)

Barb's awesome cover set this morning got me thinking ... What's your favorite cover?

Here's an even better one: imagine you could ask any band to cover any song. Which song would you choose, and who would you like to see cover it?

Here's mine, and it's really out in left field. I've been on this nostalgic Guns 'n' Roses trip lately, and have been seriously rockin' out to "Estranged" from Use Your Illusion II. Really, it's a pretty solid song--lots of turns and surprises--why did it have to be G'n'R? I think I'd like to hear what Okkervil River could do with a song like that. Nobody can scream like Will Sheff, not even Axl.

So, what's your cover fantasy?

Comments (10)

Don't have a fantasy cover, but the best cover version of "You Really Got Me" was Oingo Boingo's version on "Only A Lad". It's such a unique take on such a warhorse song. Ever need a speed fix without wanting to take speed? Listen to The Boingo.

Posted by frick | February 23, 2007 1:40 PM

I really loved a cover that I heard on this station about a month ago. It was a cover of Velvet Underground's "Venus in Furs". It was an amazing cover! I almost didn't recognize the song (but in a good way). It sounded a lot like DeVotchka, or one of those new Gypsy/Folk bands. Does anyone know who this was?

Posted by Tim | February 23, 2007 2:16 PM

Tim -- it was indeed DeVotchKa. This is a mindblowing cover, isn't it? I agree. It's on their EP "Curse Your Little Heart."

Posted by Steve Seel | February 23, 2007 2:45 PM

DeVotchKa's cover of Venus in Furs rocks. It was especially awesome to hear live.

Even though it's pretty straight forward, The Mavericks covering Springsteen's "All That Heaven Would Allow" is also very good. It's what Bruuuce should have done in the first place with that song. Upbeat, great twangy gertars and bouncy beat.

Posted by frick | February 23, 2007 3:06 PM

I would like to hear Wilco cover My Back Pages.

Posted by Kevin | February 23, 2007 3:45 PM

Speaking of covers that wind up being better than the originals (or, the way it "should" be done), check out the Georgia Satellites' version of "Don't Pass Me By." Hearing it, you realize how lackluster the fab four's version really is. The Satellites' give it the appropriate electric honky-tonk boogie vibe it truly deserves.

Posted by Kevin | February 23, 2007 3:54 PM

The Waco Brothers do a pretty killer cover of Baba O'Reilly. It's fast and all hillbillied up. Sweet.

Posted by Pete | February 23, 2007 4:40 PM

P.J. Harvey and Bjork covering the Stone's Satisfaction. Can't be beat.

Posted by MD | February 24, 2007 4:13 PM

I'm still in fantasy land. I'd like to hear El Perro del Mar do the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows."

Posted by Jacquie Fuller | February 25, 2007 11:55 AM

By the way ... can I just say how totally vindicated I felt later that night when Chuck Klosterman defended G'n'R? That "woo" coming from the mezzanine was me.

Posted by Jacquie Fuller | February 25, 2007 12:31 PM

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