# Cover songs that should exist, but don't. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559 "2013-01-17T22:55:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/41 "2013-01-21T00:31:24Z")
Here’s a good cover of “Someday Never Comes” - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94-HvY14BBI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94-HvY14BBI) ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/42 "2013-01-21T00:50:00Z")
Philip Glass should have covered Alice’s Restaurant. White Stripes covering Hendrix’x Machine Gun. Mumford and Sons should cover more songs without big crescendos. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/43 "2013-01-21T00:50:59Z")
Ever since Stone Temple Pilots’ “Sex-Type Thing” came out in the mid-90s, I’ve wanted to hear it covered by a female singer. I think my first thought at the time was Gen from the Genitorturers, but that’s a little on the nose. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/44 "2013-01-21T01:06:47Z")
Meat Loaf should cover Taxi by Harry Chapin. I can just imagine him wailing with an overly dramatic symphony behind him “I go flyingggggggg…so highhhhh…when I’m stoned”, sailing from the heights of false drama to the depths of irony when the phrase is completed. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/45 "2013-01-21T01:30:40Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Philip Glass should have covered Alice’s Restaurant. “Just waitin’ for it to come around and around and around and around and around and around and around on the guitar…” ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/46 "2013-01-21T08:50:06Z")
Phish played many classic albums as part of their Halloween sets, such as the Beatles’ White Album, and the Who’s Quadrophenia, but didn’t play Grateful Dead’s American Beauty in a live concert as far as I know. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/47 "2013-01-21T15:49:55Z")
I’d like to see Paul Anka who did [that nice Vegas version of Wonderwall,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCA0E5ly9dc) do a Vegas version of Roy Hamilton’s [“You Can Have Her.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1mkSm00kXM) “She never loved me anyway – hey, hey!” ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/48 "2013-01-27T12:20:40Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve been trying to think of that I would love to hear my most favorite singer James Otto cover, but right now I can not think of any. ☹ ☹ ☹ I just thought of one. I’d love to hear him sing “Don’t Worry, Baby” from the Beach Boys. 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you and them and James always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly P.S. This song would be perfect because James is crazy about cars. Him standing in front of his 1960 Cadillac Eldorado is what you will find on the front of his Sunset Man album. 🙂 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/49 "2013-01-27T20:56:24Z")
> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > This song would be perfect because James is crazy about cars. Him standing in front of his 1960 Cadillac Eldorado is what you will find on the front of his Sunset Man album. 🙂 🙂 🙂 He should cover Jonathan Richman’s [Pablo Picasso](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2iLAubras), then. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/50 "2013-01-27T21:55:20Z")
I think Bob Dylan should do some covers. Imagine these: Strawberry Fields Forever My Sharona Hey Jude (I can just hear the Na na na na na na na na part) ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/51 "2013-01-27T22:07:07Z")
I always wanted to hear Clint Black do a tribute CD to Hank Williams. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/52 "2013-01-27T22:16:14Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > He should cover Jonathan Richman’s [Pablo Picasso](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2iLAubras), then. It would be up to him. I don’t know if James knows that song. I just know that I don’t. God bless you and him always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/53 "2013-01-27T22:36:08Z")
I always wanted to hear the Mission UK around 1988-1990 covering Iron Maiden’s Children of the Damned, with a guitar line like Tony Iomi’s from the beginning of War Pigs and a solo like the one from the end of War Pigs. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/54 "2013-01-28T00:29:59Z")
Roy Orbison is long dead, but he would have done a good cover of Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/55 "2013-01-28T03:44:20Z")
James Otto singing [Cannibal Corpse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Corpse)’s “A Skull Full of Maggots.” ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/56 "2013-01-28T03:50:48Z")
^^^ That would also be up to him. I don’t know if James knows that song. I just know that I don’t. God bless you and him always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/57 "2013-01-28T03:59:46Z")
But do you think he could do the song justice? ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/58 "2013-01-28T05:20:03Z")
I can close my eyes and hear the Georgia Satellites doing a faster version of Rod Stewart’s _Stay With Me_ ---
**Author:** ![Raging\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@Raging\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raging_Bull)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/59 "2013-01-28T09:57:02Z")
Pete Doherty Castles made of sand ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/60 "2013-01-28T14:01:52Z")
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