cover tunes

i'm making a second volume of a covers mix i put together a few months ago. any recommendations would be welcomed. i need to be able to find the original, as i couple the mix with a copy of the original songs in the same order. here's the tracklist of the first mix i made:

1. of montreal - know your onion (2:26)
2. Sleater-Kinney & Fred Schneider - Angry Inch (2:44)
3. The Flaming Lips - Seven Nation Army (2:48)
4. Shena Ringo - yer blues (4:12)
5. Devo - Secret Agent Man (3:31)
6. The Siddeleys - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) (2:51)
7. Aimee Mann - One (2:53)
8. Jon Brion - Voices (7:32)
9. Ben Folds - Bitches Ain't Shit (3:54)
10. John Mayer - Kid A Cover (2:49)
11. The White Stripes - Jolene (3:13)
12. weird chinese lady - Love Potion #9 (1:56)
13. The Feelies - Paint It, Black (2:54)
14. The New Pornographers - When I Was A Baby (2:26)
15. Emilie Simon - I Wanna Be Your Dog (2:42)
16. Presidents of the United States of America - Kick Out the Jams (1:26)
17. Ted Leo - Since U Been Gone (3:38)
18. Weezer - Velouria (3:54)
19. aquabats- Love Without Anger (2:49)
20. The New Pornographers - Your Daddy Don't Know (3:08)
21. Iron And Wine - Waitin For A Superman (4:29)
22. Anne Sofie Von Otter & Elvis Costello - Don't Talk (put your head on my shoulder) (3:12)
23. beck- True Love Will Find You In The End (3:23)
24. Pixies - In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song) (1:49)

*waits for someone to mention a certain song from the Garden State OST so we can mock them*

Replacements - "Black Diamond"

i felt uneasy enough about that aimee mann cover from the magnolia OST

Dandy Warhols - Stars (BJM)
Morrissey - That's Entertainment (The Jam)
The Clash - Police & Thieves (Junior Murvin)
Superdrag - Wave of Mutilation (Pixies)
Husker Du - Eight Miles High (The Byrds)
Pete Yorn - Splendid Isolation (Warren Zevon)

Not sure how readily available the orginial is, but "Hanging On A Telephone" done by The Nerves and later covered by Blondie. This would be an interesting choice because I'll bet most people didn't know that Blondie was doing a cover.

The orginial is on one of the DIY Power Pop comps which I had out the other day…

I was hanging out with some Canadians yesterday and we were arguing the merits of a Clash cover "Guns of Brixton" by a band who's name escapes me at the moment - Novoue Vague or something like that. Worth a listen because some people seem to like it (I'm not one of them).

Originally posted by vansmack:
I was hanging out with some Canadians yesterday and we were arguing the merits of a Clash cover "Guns of Brixton" by a band who's name escapes me at the moment - Novoue Vague or something like that. Worth a listen because some people seem to like it (I'm not one of them).

Nouvelle Vague – They do bossa nova covers of punk and post-punk songs.

Personally, I don't care much for it either, but yeah, a lot of people do seem to like them.

http://www.nouvellesvagues.com/english/music.html

i like some of the songs on that one… "too drunk to fuck" and "teenage kicks" are the ones off the top of my head which work best.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Nouvelle Vague

That's it. Thanks. They're all the rage with Canadian chicks apparently.

galaxie 500- cheese and onions.

Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks (Ramones)
Bangles - "Going Down To Liverpool" (Katrina & The Waves)
Power Station - "Get It On(Bang A Gong) T. Rex

Marti Jones has done several excellent covers

Billy Bragg "7+7 Is", The Damned "Alone Again Or" both Love Covers

Devo - "Ohio" (Neil Young)

The Pixies - Winterlong (Neil Young)
Ted Leo - Suspect Device (SLF - but Ted may only do it live)
Fatima Mansions - Shiny Happy People (REM)
Nick Cave/Shane MacGowan - What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong + many others)

These Twilight Singers and Paul Weller albums are all cover albums

some excellent songs on both

John Mayer's cover of Kid A is so good.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks (Ramones)

Is that technically a cover?

Originally posted by poorlulu:

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks (Ramones)

Is that technically a cover?

i guess no… on the copy of "L.A.M.F Revisited" I just got the song is credited to (Ramone/Ramone/Ramone) so whoever put the liner notes together must have been sniffin glue at the time. on allmusic it's credited to hell/dolan/thunders/ramone…

so how about

The D4 - "Pirate Love" (see above)

Addendum - Dee Dee Ramone is credited as first writing the song, but the Ramones rejected it.

I cannot remember the story that well, I thought the ramones were alleged to have written it, but didnt record it until after Thunders had played and recorded it. They didnt wnat to be singing about H. But then they changed their mind and took the song back….. And the songwriting credits with it.

I have seen on websites where it claims Hell and Dee Dee wrote it for Thunders.

I am sure the details were in Please Kill Me or was it the clash biography?

Is it a cover if someone writes it for someone else?

I say no.

from allmusic

Chinese Rocks

Few other rock musicians have ever danced on the edge of drug oblivion for as long and hard as Johnny Thunders did. The theme of hard drugs (namely heroin) cropped up time and time again in Thunders' music, perhaps never more evident than in one of Thunders' best-known songs, "Chinese Rocks." While the song is pure Johnny Thunders – ragged guitar riffs, an almost drunken vocal delivery, lots of attitude, etc. – Thunders did not pen it. The song's main author was the Ramones' bassist Dee Dee Ramone. He set out to write a song that would out-do the Velvet Underground's "Heroin," as the song shed light on the grim and desperate life of a junkie (strangely, it was more comparable to another VU song, "I'm Waiting for the Man," rather than "Heroin"). Dee Dee supposedly wrote the song in Debbie Harry's apartment, but when he showed it to his Ramones bandmates, they rejected it since they didn't want any drug-based songs. Dee Dee then showed it to friend Richard Hell, who was in Johnny Thunders' band the Heartbreakers at the time. The Heartbreakers recorded it for their classic L.A.M.F. release (later reissued as L.A.M.F. Revisited), but, over the years, Thunders was erroneously assumed to be the song's author – even though he had nothing to do with the song's creation.