# Cover Songs you'd like to hear **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2002, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-youd-like-to-hear/106276 "2002-04-29T12:56:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-youd-like-to-hear/106276/21 "2002-05-01T21:11:46Z")
I’ve always had this insane thought that I wanted to hear Dylan and Springsteen team up on “Mack the Knife”. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-youd-like-to-hear/106276/22 "2002-05-02T02:36:17Z")
Sarah Brightman singing “Diamonds are Forever”, aor Nina Gordon singing Vitamin C’s “Smile.” Or the London Philharmonic performing any number of TV show theme songs. Yeah, I don’t have any taste. Sue me. 😛 Ranchoth ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-youd-like-to-hear/106276/23 "2002-05-02T06:33:44Z")
Lewis Farakhan be the narrator on Schoenberg’s “A Survivor from Warsaw” Orrin Hatch do “Hypnotize” by Biggie Smalls. The Normon Tabernacle Choir sing “Joy To the World”–the Three Dog Night version. Janet Jackson try to sing “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” with that small voice of hers. ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-youd-like-to-hear/106276/24 "2002-05-02T06:52:33Z")
Creed covering the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” ---
**Author:** ![Ewdlorr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@Ewdlorr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ewdlorr)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-youd-like-to-hear/106276/25 "2002-05-02T13:49:00Z")
Ever since I first heard **Garbage** ’s interpolation of “Don’t Worry Baby” into the “Push it” lyrics, I’ve really thought that they could do a nice job with **Dee-Lite** ’s “Groove is in the Heart”. I would really love to hear **The Aquabats** cover **NIN** ’s “Herecy”, or for them to cover just about anything else from “The Downward Spiral” – “Ruiner” would be nice. **Marilyn Manson** covering “Little Girls”, by **Oingo Boingo** – just imagine the video. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-youd-like-to-hear/106276/26 "2002-05-02T14:39:38Z")
You know, for _months_ I have contemplated the cosmic beauty of: **Clutch** covering **Cake’s** “The Distance” **Cake** covering **Clutch’s** “Escape from the Prison Planet” It’ll never happen in a billion years. But, ahhhh!!! ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-youd-like-to-hear/106276/27 "2002-05-02T15:05:47Z")
1987-era Grateful Dead doing Stevie Ray Vaughan’s version of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” would have worked very, very well. Until you’ve heard Mae West do “Shake It Up, Baby,” you haven’t heard a great cover. ---
**Author:** ![J\_String](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@J\_String](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_String)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-youd-like-to-hear/106276/28 "2002-05-07T06:18:22Z")
I’d like to hear a metal band try Garth Brooks’s “The Thunder Rolls”. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-youd-like-to-hear/106276/29 "2002-05-22T14:30:50Z")
For those you who live in Dallas, Texas, and frequent Deep Ellum, I’m sure you know who [**Girl**](http://www.girltheband.com/) is. The other day, I heard the perfect song for them to cover: **Killer Pussy** ’s “Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage.” Somehow I could really see Judy getting into that… ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-youd-like-to-hear/106276/30 "2002-05-22T14:46:09Z")
I do this with a friend of mine, all the time. We make up amazing cover combos. The funniest ones so far are Ozzy singing _November Rain_, with Lemmy as backing vocals. [Ozzy] _When I look into your eey-eeh-eeeyes, I can seey-eeey a love restray-nd…[_ [Lemmy] _AAAAAAAHHHHH, GHAAAAAAAAA, HAAAAAAA!!!_ Another potentially funny one is Slayer covering _My Endless Love_, as performed by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross. All the other cool ones I’d suggest have already been done by Tori Amos. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-youd-like-to-hear/106276.md?page=1)