Songs that can't be covered
 

i was just listening to Sonic Youth covering to 'My New House' by The Fall and it just made me think of that.The Smiths,for one, are impossible to cover.

Diamanda Galas' entire output.

i think sonic youth are pretty hard to cover, i have that confuse yr idols cd, and its pretty bad.

bob dylan.

Not true. Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower is 127218741287108x better than Dylan's.

i will say this: that is the ONLY good cover of a dylan song i've heard in my lifetime. and i agree. it's fucking fantastic.

Mainly that's cause everyone trys it. Even the simplest of his songs require an incredible amount of dexterity & skill, most people who cover Dylan don't quite have either.
Some people can, most can't, probably best left alone.

the smiths are very hard to cover, you need someone wgho not only can play the guitar like marr, but someone who can sing the phtrasing like Morrissey. I can sing it like a motherfucker. me and the Moz are the same range. The karaoke bar does not ahve suffcient smiths or morrissey stuff!!!

I can sing anything Morrissey sang! bring it on!

bullshit!

proof:

the byrds - mr tamborine man
fairport convention - si tu dois partir (dylan's if you gotta go, go now)
fairport convention - percy's song

just to name three.

Bullshit 2:
The Byrds - All i Really Want To Do.

Nailed even.

Thanks for refreshing my memory Everyneurotic.

Richie Havens- She Breaks Just Like a Woman
:p

Johnny Cash's version of It ain't me babe is grand as well. Much better in a manly baritone rather than a whiny twats voice. Tijuana brass on a Dylan song? Why the begorrah not.

The Delgadoes and Prince spring to mind for impossible to cover bands. I think Erasure should be covered by not awful bands, they've written sooooo many brilliant songs that need a young and hip audience. Other than myself, obviously.

Oh, I neglected to mention - just how utterly pish is that Fall covers session? It's a rarity, and was probably quite fun at the time, but just so very bad.

oh and i forgot about the johnny cash cover.

other than that, all of you, die.

I think "My new house is sick."

I do entirely agree with you on the fact that Dylan can't be covered though. Apart from Johnny 'the polisher' Cash, there's only so much polishing you can do before you realise that the turd is never becoming a diamond.

Let me get you some bactine for that wicked burn.

fuck off, i said.

dylan should have died a long time ago.

FUCK OFF, i said.

The Fall should have a warning on their songs that says:'Don't cover as it just wont happen twice'.The same should go for SY,The Smiths,The Velvet Underground,Diamanda Galas etc.The rest you can cover but you still would be shit at it and your bums should be sodomized by toothless farmers.

jimi hendrix cannot be covered. he can't be touched.

Jimi Hendrix can be covered easily as his music wasn't meant to really inhabit the ultragalactic planet that was chosen for him.

Fuck Off I Said>

anything by the Butthole Surfers

Ok.

Anything by Daniel Johnston is impossible to cover, because it's not just about songs with Daniel- it's the actual experience of listening to Daniel, how much emotion is thrown at you in his squeaky little voice.

Sonic Youth, of course, can't be covered either. Sometimes even Sonic Youth don't know to play Sonic Youth songs, so yeah. Same with Hendrix.

Sorry but i felt like dropping this little garden into the thread.I hope you don't mind:

you know porkie how in some catholic countries people have statues of the virgin in their backyards like this?






well i somehow can totally imagine you praying to this one:

haha.At least someone got it.

Didn't Dylan Write 'forever Young', The Mainstay Of All Junior High Dances? Who Covered It? Was It Rod Stewart?? Why Have They Not Been Shot Yet? Maybe Society Should Point Our Gun-crazed Youth Towards These Cunts, Right?

DEVO- ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?

NOT NECESSARILY BEAUTIFUL, BUT MUTATED!

yes, he did. and fuck him for doing so.

Nope,what is it like?

I think those of you saying Hendrix can't be covered are neglecting Steve Vai's various Hendrix covers.

Did the Soup Dragons do a cover of a Hendrix song? I think they did. 'Purple Haze'?

If you're thinking that you're on droooooogzzz just imagine the fact that i'm on drooooogzzzz too!

NO! PLACEBO made the BEST cover of Bigmouth Strikes again




















...not

agreed! worst completionist purchase ever!