.... the newest trend seems to be the release of covers albums where artists record songs that influenced them in their journeys. Well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. If you were a musician and were recording a 12 song disc of nothing but covers to pay homage to your influences, what 12 songs would you chose?
Mine:
Dreams in the Dark (Badlands)
Panama (Van Halen)
Rocket Queen (Guns N' Roses)
Take Me (Kiss)
Too Young to Fall in Love (Motley Crue)
Season of Wither (Aerosmith)
I've Just Seen a Face (The Beatles)
Love Man (Otis Redding)
One Night of Sin (Elvis Presley)
Missing You (John Waite)
When You Close Your Eyes (Night Ranger)
A Country Boy Can Survive (Hank Williams Jr.) Yeah... it took me a while to get this question posted because I had to work on my list. It started out at somewhere around 30 or so. i refuse to let myself be pushed into the crowd..
:) Daytripper by the Beatles
Satisfaction by the Stones
Purple Haze by Hendrix
All The Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople
My Generation by the Who
You Really Got Me by the Kinks
Golden Years by Bowie
Let it Rain by Clapton
Let's Go by the Cars
Surrender by Cheap Trick
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow by Zappa
Saturdays Alright for Fighting by Elton John Unforgiven - Metallica
November Rain - Guns & Roses
Major Tom - David Bowie
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Tom Sawyer - Rush
Wind Up - Jethro Tull
Eleanor Rigby - Beatles
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Hollywood Boulevard - The Kinks
I'll Stand by You - The Pretenders
Dust in the Wind - Kansas Those rock Gods have a way of leaving their phones off the hook.
Terrible Lie - NIN
Temple of Love - The Sisters of Mercy
Atomic Garden - Bad Religion
In My Eyes - Minor Threat
Values Here - Dag Nasty
Ignite - The Damned
Burning Inside - Ministry
Chicago Piano - Jawbox
Cult - Skinny Puppy
I Am One - Smashing Pumpkins
Mayonnaise and Malaise - Local H - the least I can do for that head shattering concert of theirs I attended.
No New Tale to Tell - Love & Rockets In no particular order...
From Out of Nowhere - Faith No More
Go - Pearl Jam
A Chang - Velocity Girl
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
New Moon on Monday - Duran Duran
Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) - Deftones
Blackbird - The Beatles
Blackened - Metallica
There Goes the Neighborhood - Body Count
Barracuda - Heart
Mercy Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
Can mine be a box set? I feel like I've left a lot of stuff out... Nice list.
My 12 song retrospective
Barracuda - Heart
I Wish - Stevie Wonder
One of These Nights - Eagles
Fantasy -Earth, Wind and Fire
Something - Beatles
Love ballad - LTD
Turn the Page- Bob Seger
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Black Water- Doobie Brothers
Take me to The River - Talking Heads via Al Green
La Grange - ZZ Top
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple Freak on a Leash-Korn
The Chain-Fleetwood Mac
Hotel California-The Eagles
Closer-Nine Inch Nails
Change-Deftones
Stairway to Heaven-Led Zepplin
Pinball Wizard- The Who
Paranoid-Black Sabbath
Don't Stop Believin-Journey
Barracuda-Heart
Welcome to the Jungle-Guns n Roses
Heart Shaped Box-Nirvana
and i know there's only supposed to be 12, but i have to also add "jeremy" by Pearl Jam. One of my first rock faves Not to many people know the original name for "one night with you" by Elvis , impressive........here is mine no particular order
Rip it up - Elvis Presley
Great balls of fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin
Walk this way - Aerosmith
Golden Country - REO Speedwagon
Night Moves - Bob Segar
Smokin' - Boston
Lonely is the night - Billy Squire
Limelight - Rush
Crimson and clover - Joan Jett (cover)
Hungry like the wolf - Duran Duran
Abacab -Genesis
cool question ! Sleep The Clock Around 鈥?Belle & Sebastian
In Particular 鈥?Blonde Redhead
Thieves - Ministry
Helicopter 鈥?Bloc Party
Transmission 鈥?Joy Division
Fade Into You 鈥?Mazzy Star
Optimistic 鈥?Radiohead
The 15th - Fischerspooner
Playground Love 鈥?AIR
Summer Skin- Death Cab
Bang - The YYY鈥檚
Space Dog 鈥?Tori Amos Good Morning Mike, interesting question.
It's kind of a mix of stuff for homage and songs I've always wanted to cover, but:
Billy Joel - Pressure
the Riverbottom Nightmare Band - Riverbottom Nightmare Band
Frank Black - So. Bay
Blur - Trimm Trabb
Elliott Smith - Christian Brothers
Folk Implosion - Waltzin With Your Ego
Pavement - Perfume V
Built To Spill - Big Dipper
Huey Lewis and the News - I Want A New Drug (a buddy of mine and I had a concept for it a long time ago to slow it way down and make it really spacey)
Elvis Costello - Kinder Murder
Grandaddy - Chartsengrafs
Nick Drake - Things Behind the Sun (I always thought that song would translate to a full band really well)
I know the way my brain works I could look at this in an hour and want to swap out like 4 of them, but at the moment...
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Man, there are some great lists.
I have a hidden track for it, Can - Thief. That song would be a lot of fun. Mike!!
Rocket Queen influenced you? Yay lol.
Since he would've taken up like 4/5 spaces, I'm doing my top 12 EXCLUDING Bob Dylan.
Guns N Roses - November Rain, Patience, Estranged.
Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar, Wish You Were Here
Less Than Jake - The Science of Selling Yourself Short
Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Cat Stevens - Peace Train
Lori McKenna - Fireflies
Pearl Jam - Daughter
Aerosmith - Crazy, Dream On
edit** awesome story!
i wish headbangers ball didnt suck so bad now.
but yeah, i couldnt think of a better song to use as a prime example of sleaze. great song though, sleazy or not. :) 1. It's A Fact (The Vandals)
2. Mass Hysteria (Social Distortion)
3. Horror Hotel (Misfits)
4. Three Young Ladies Drinking Whiskey Before Breakfast (traditional)
5. The Battle Of New Orleans (traditional)
6. Knowledge (Operation Ivy)
7. Mr Lover Man (Shabba Ranks)
8. Xiao Baicai (traditional (Chinese))
9. 21st Century Digital Boy (Bad Religion)
10. Moonlight Serenade (Tommy Dorsey)
11. Guitars, Cadillacs (Dwight Yokam)
12. -another traditional Chinese whose title I can't remember- Piece of my heart - Janice Joplin
People are Strange - The Doors
Walk - Pantera
Kiss - Prince
Cocaine Blues- Johnny Cash
Working Class Hero - John Lennon
Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
My Friends - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Since Your Gone - The Cars
Paint it Black- Rolling Stones
Tuesdays Gone- CCR
Graveflower - Acid Bath
Territorial Pissings - Nirvana
Sweet leaf- Black Sabbath
Well, I guess more a list of influences, some of these I couldn't sing without butchering One More Chance {Sandy Denny}
*Gold Dust Woman *&* Sisters of the Moon {Fleetwood Mac}
Mond Tanz / Child In Time {Blackmore's Night / Deep Purple}
16th Century Greensleeves {Rainbow}
Ariel {Rainbow / Blackmore's Night}
The Battle of Evermore {Led Zeppelin}
The Witch's Promise {Jethro Tull}
Tunnel of Love {Dire Straits}
Angel {Jimi Hendrix}
Johnny and Mary {Robert Palmer}
Truly {Delerium}
*Burnt Flowers Fallen *&* Wolf Moon {Type O Negative}
* I'd do them in such a way that they run into one another, so they would in effect be one song.
I'm sure there are several others, but these are the first 12 I can think of! Sw-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-t Question Mike, wish I'd have thought of it. And Badlands?...Super Kool. I see You're a fan of My favorite Aerosmith tune as well. Nice, Allow Me to say....Great taste in music. Anyhoo, here's what would be on My disc
Starship Trooper (Yes)
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pink Floyd)
Carouselambra (Led Zeppelin)
Blue Wind (Jeff Beck)
Ace Of Spades (Motorhead)
War Pigs/Luke's Wall (Black Sabbath)
Burn (Deep Purple)
Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City (Whitesnake)
Love To Love (UFO)
Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea (Genesis)
Astronomy (Blue Oyster Cult)
Four Strong Winds (Neil Young)
Actually Mike I am a musician, I'm a keyboardist. My keyboard heroes are
My Mother (Who was a Concert Pianist)
Rick Wakeman
Rick Wright
Jon Lord 1. Gallows Pole (Led Zeppelin)
2. Dogs (Pink Floyd)
3. Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad? (Derek & The Dominoes)
4. One Way Out (Allman Brothers)
5. Crossfire (Stevie Ray Vaughn)
6. Scarlet Begonias (Grateful Dead)
7. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (CSN)
8. Slip Kid (The Who)
9. Green Grass & High Tides (Outlaws)
10. Just A Game (Triumph)
11. Breakout (Shooting Star)
12. Deja Voodoo (Kenny Wayne Shepherd) Incubus - Hilikus
Nick Drake - Northern Sky
Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
Sublime - Waiting For My Ruca
The Who - I Can't Explain
Radiohead - Just
Jeff Buckley - Vancouver
Elliott Smith - I Don't Think I'm Ever Going To Figure It Out
Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away
The Beatles - Get Back
Alice In Chains - Them Bones
The Yardbirds - For Your Love (These are the songs which I think would be the most fulfilling, or fun, to cover. Not necessarily the best, most famous, or most significant, work of the named artist. OK, I'm done.)
Tracks Of My Tears - Smokey Robinson
Can Your ***** Do The Dog - The Cramps
Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground
Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan
Misguided Angel - Cowboy Junkies
That Day Is Done - Elvis Costello
Ruby's Arms - Tom Waits
Some Candy Talking / I Hate Rock & Roll / Kill Surf City - The Jesus & Mary Chain
Quicksand / Width Of A Circle - David Bowie
For No-One - The Beatles
Everything Merges With The Night - Brian Eno
Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles
LOL, you know, 12 songs is too few : )
EDIT: *Gives apple apologetically to teacher, and slinks to desk, tail between legs* four sticks- led zeppelin
stray cat blues- the rolling stones
rock bottom- kiss
the seeker- the who
happiness is a warm gun- the beatles
blinded by the light- {bruce} manfed mann
mercury blues- steve miller
long white cadillac- dwight yoakam
trying to get to you- elvis
needle and the spoon- lynyrd skynyrd
needle and the damage done- neal young
outshined- soundgarden
....btw.... props to your list, badlands were awesome.
id much rather have a double album,,say 20 tunes to push the envelope a bit further. | 