Content-free Friday: It's a gawddamn Internet Meme now.

[featherynscale]

jackbabalon23 is celebrating a Day of Lists over at his place, and has a list of cover songs that don't or can't exist, but that he'd like to hear. He asks "How about you? Any cover songs you'd like to hear done no matter how improbable?".

This is what we in the business call A Dangerous Question to Ask. :)

So here's my list:

• Social Distortion - "Suffragette City"
  
• Nine Inch Nails - "Love Without Anger" (only because Devo covered "Head Like a Hole" some years back, and turnabout is my favorite kind of fair play)
  
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Shiny Happy People" (bad *and* wrong)
  
• Muse - "A Whiter Shade of Pale"
  
• She Wants Revenge - "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (or is that too easy?)
  
• Tool - "Touch Me" (the one by The Doors, not the one from the Rocky Horror Picture Show)
  
• The Squirrel Nut Zippers - "Heroin"
  

Also, anybody at all covering Lou Reed's "Perfect Day".

What about you lot? What improbable cover would you like to hear? (I say, knowing full well that infintysquared is lurking out there, and is at least as cover-mad as I am....)

Comments

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Nice call on Social Distortion doing Bowie, I enjoyed Mike Ness' cover of the Stones Under my Thumb (off the 1945 ep if my scene senility hasn't kicked in yet). For shits & giggles i'd like to see Nick Cave do "Shiny Happy People"!

[crookedface.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaahhh WHAM, BAM, THANK YOU, MA'AM!

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

I'd like to hear Panic! At The Disco do "Girls on Film" by Duran Duran. Just to watch dragon_sword's face.

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

Lore had it right:

Here is a thing that would be awesome: a "Weird Al" tribute album. There have to be enough rockers about my age who grew up listening to "Eat It" and "Dare to Be Stupid" and who have affection for the Man in Garish Hawaiian Patterns to get a good ten or twelve covers going. Personally, I'd like to hear Beck cover "Dare to Be Stupid" and Björk do "One More Minute."

[chronarchy.livejournal.com]

Ah, Social D. I've been listening to as much of them as I can find recently.

[bountifulpots.livejournal.com]

Um, you know Duran Duran remade Perfect Day, right?

Sadly, the one that I would have said a while back, actually happened, but I still haven't gotten to hear it. Brian Wilson singing Barenaked Ladies's "Brain Wilson."

[infintysquared.livejournal.com]

I hear a challenge in the wind. Expect to see my list shortly, WENCH.

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

Metalica -- "Build a Little Birdhouse in Your Soul"
Henry Rollins -- "When I Fall In Love"
Hanson -- "Hurt" (in their "Uum-Bop" phase)
White Stripes -- "Wannabe"
Eminem -- "Cornflake Girl" (Hey, if Tori can figure out how to do "Bonnie & Clyde '97", surely he could figure it out)

More just wrong

[druidevo.livejournal.com]

lilia_blackbear vetoed posting some of these last night because they are either dead or discorperate but

The broadway cast of Cats, in costume -- "Closer"
Ben Folds -- "Touch Me" (from Rocky Horror)
Frank Sinatra -- "It's The End Of The World"

Thanks so much...

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

It's not like 'Birdhouse doesn't get stuck in my head easily enough, now I'm stuck imagining it with a lot of strong metal chords and the occasional "Hooh!" thrown in. :p

Not to mention...

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

"Nine Inch Nails - "Love Without Anger" (only because Devo covered "Head Like a Hole" some years back, and turnabout is my favorite kind of fair play)"

Getting NIN to cover "Whip It" would seriously lack imagination.

[dop4.livejournal.com]

Pink doing a medley combo of Rammstein's 'Du Hast' and the Dead Kennedy's 'Nazi Punks, F*** Off!'.

Marilyn Manson covering just about anything by the Boomtown Rats, but most particularly 'Diamond Smiles'

Paris Hilton doing 'JailHouse Rock', yeah it'd suck- but you KNOW it's sell a lot of copies.

Hi There.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

I think I missed being on a filter or two there. Not that I'm demanding "Hey! Put me on the filter!" if you don't want me there, but if it's okay with you I'd like to be on all filters. :)

Re: Hi There.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Done, and done.