Your Fantasy Covers Album
It's not always a great career move when established artists do it, but many, like David Bowie, have recorded their 'covers' album. Unfortunately, a lot of them are basically the sign of an over-indulgent artist suffering a baron-patch creatively, and are full of crap and unnecessary cover versions.
Yours, of course, won't be. So if you did get the chance to record one, which 12 songs would you like to cover on it?
Heres' mine:
A Really Good Time - Roxy Music
Touch Me - The Doors
The State I'm In - Belle & Sebastian
Gary Gilmore's Eyes - The Adverts
Halloween - Japan
Quicksand - David Bowie
Kool Thing - Sonic Youth
Manny Moe & Jack - The Dickies
Time To Pretend - MGMT
Nice 'n' Sleazy - The Stranglers
Yellow Bricks - Arctic Monkeys
Enemy - Buffalo Tom
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Guitar/VoxPermalink Reply by Rob Paige on -
In no particular order..
- Be Bop Deluxe - Maid in Heaven
- The Clash - (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
- The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing
- The Damned - Noise Noise Noise
- Ruts - Something That I Said
- Small Faces - Tin Soldier
- Led Zeppelin - Out On The Tiles
- Foo Fighters - My Hero
- Groundhogs - Cherry Red
- David Bowie - Cracked Actor
- The Jam - Funeral Pyre
- Jane's Addiction - Just Because
That's for the first covers album, entitled 'Self-Indulgence'.
The second would be called, 'Some things are best done alone'.
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Vox/GuitarPermalink Reply by Toby Burton on -
Nice choices, Rob. Thanks for playing! Toby
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BandPermalink Reply by The Krypts on -
- Coz I love you - Slade
- Goodbye Toulouse - Stranglers
- David Watts - Kinks/Jam
- Crazy Horses - The Osmonds
- Powderfinger - Neil Young
- Sweet Gene Vincent - Ian Dury and the Blockheads
- Be-bop-a-lula - Gene Vincent
- One more cup of Coffee - Bob Dylan
- I'm only sleeping - The Beatles
- See Emily play - Pink Floyd
- One way or another – Blondie
- Honky tonk woman – The Rolling Stones
Songs from my creaky bed 1976-81
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VocalsPermalink Reply by Alcuin Edwards on -
1) Mack The Knife - Brecht and Weil
2) Kill Surf City - The Jesus and Mary Chain
3) Cracked Actor - David Bowie
4) I Never Loved Eva Braun - Boomtown Rats
5) How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths
6) Forever Young - Sparks
7) End of the Run - Blondie
8) Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
9) Babylon Is Fallen - Pariah Beat
10) Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground
11) Why Don't You Smile Now? - Spiritualised
12) Lush Life - Billy Strayhorn
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BassPermalink Reply by Matt Russell on -
The Outbursts have never been afraid of the odd cover so our covers album would probably be something like.......
1. Bangkok - Alex Chilton
2. CID - UK Subs
3. Kamikaze Pilot - The Hoodoo Gurus
4. 1970 - The Stooges
5. Wasted Life - Stiff Little Fingers
6. I Can Only Give You Everything - Them
7. Cause I Said So - The Godfathers
8. One Track Mind - Johnny Thunders
9. Lucifer Sam - Punk Floyd
10. Action Woman - The Litter
11. Sometines Good Guys Don't Wear White - The Standells
12. Ca Plan Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand
13. Kill - Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias
14. I Don't Need Your Loving Any More - Chocolate Watch Band
15. I Hear Noises - The Vibes
16. So What - Anti-Nowhere League
17. Move A Little Closer - The Screaming Tribesmen
18. Janie Jones - The Clash
19. Medication - The Standells
20. Waste Of Time - The Cynics
21. Borstal Breakout - Sham 69
22. Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
23. Burning Red - Exploding White Mice
24. Rockaway Beach - The Ramones
Hmm....looks like it might have to be a double album!!
They're all songs we've played live at some point, what do you mean you've never seen us do them?
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Vox/GuitarPermalink Reply by Toby Burton on -
I'd like to hear the Outbursts do 'Wasted Life'! Thanks, Matt. Toby
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BassPermalink Reply by Matt Russell on -
We only played it once, at a wedding gig we did. The couple said they loved SLF so we learned it for the gig. We might bring it back one day, you never know ;o)
Toby Burton said:I'd like to hear the Outbursts do 'Wasted Life'! Thanks, Matt. Toby
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Permalink Reply by John James (FATMAN) on -
The Model - Kraftwerk
No GDM - Gina X
Rat Race - Specials
The Slow Removal of Vincent Van Goghs Left Ear - Bollock Brothers
Telegram Sam - Bauhaus Version
Photographic - Depeche Mode
I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones
A Forest - The Cure
Angel Face - Glitter band
Raw Power - Iggy and The Stooges
Cant Find The Lady - Dr Feelgood
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