Not by the original artists

[muckefuck]

11 cover tunes I could listen to all day long

(for moominmolly)

1. Brave Combo "Sixteen Tons" (Tennessee Ernie Ford)
2. BiGOD 20 "Like a Prayer" (Madonna)
3. Erasure "Take a Chance on Me" (ABBA)
4. Camper Van Beethoven "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (Status Quo)
5. Siouxsie & the Banshees "The Passenger" (Iggy Pop)
6. Wax "The Happy Happy Joy Joy Song" (Ren and Stimpy)
7. The Ukrainians "Batyar" [a.k.a. "Bigmouth Strikes Again"] (The Smiths)
8. Bongwater "You Don't Love Me Yet" (Roky Ericson)
9. Was Not Was "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" (The Temptations)
10. Eläkeläiset "Beds Are Burning" (Midnight Oil)
11. Fine Young Cannibals "Suspicious Minds" (Elvis)

Comments

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

"Pictures of Matchstick Men" is a COVER? You're blowin' my mind.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Now you know how I felt the first time I saw that K-Tel commerical for Back to the 60s : Vol. 1!

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

I am, at this instant, listening to a Bossa Nova rendition of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" that I think might send you into RAPTURES.

[bunj.livejournal.com]

I won't make my own list, since at least half of it would be the same as yours. I will say that Johnny Cash does a sublimely creepy version of Springsteen's "I'm on Fire".

Tennessee Ernie Ford wrote "Sixteen Tons"? I thought that was older.

Oh, and the Butthole Surfers do a kickass "Underdog".

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I had to limit myself to one song from "Saturday Morning Live". Much as I like the Surfers' track, the Ramones' "Spider Man", and The Rev. Horton Heat's "Johnny Quest/Catch That Pigeon", I don't know that I could listen to any of them all day long. I think I've actually done that with the HHJJS before, though.

Merle Travis wrote and recorded "Sixteen Tons" back in 1946, but it was Ford who made it famous. Likewise, I doubt the Temptations were the very first to record "Papa", but theirs is the version most people immediately think of.

[niemandsrose.livejournal.com]

You're giving me an earworm of a ska version of the Bumblebee Tuna song.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Hmm, you're right, I should probably add "(Theme Song from) The Munsters" by The Forest Hillbillies.