# "I wish \_\_\_\_\_ would do a cover of \_\_\_\_\_" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092 "2009-06-17T17:34:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/1 "2009-06-17T17:34:34Z")
I was thinking the other day oh all the song hand offs I would like to hear. I would love to hear The Decemberists do a Tom Waits song. Something kind of clangy and odd like “Eye Ball Kid” or something sweet like “I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love with You”. I like Cake’s covers and would love for them to take a stab at Don Williams “If Hollywood Don’t Need You”. I think they could really sell the line “Oh, and if you see Burt Reynolds Would you shake his hand for me And tell ol’ Burt , I’ve seen all his movies” I’m sad that we won’t be able to hear Cash cover anymore out of genre songs. I’d like to hear him do something by the Magnetic Fields. Any requests for covers that y’all have? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/2 "2009-06-17T18:11:02Z")
To the best of my knowledge, Warren Zevon never covered any of Elvis Costello’s songs. Unfortunately, it’s a bit too late for him to do any now. However, it’s not too late for Elvis Costello to cover any of Warren Zevon’s songs. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/3 "2009-06-17T18:22:46Z")
I’d like to hear Rufus Wainwright cover Led Zepplin’s “That’s the Way.” ---
**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:** [June 17, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/4 "2009-06-17T18:45:44Z")
20 years ago I wanted to hear either the Sisters of Mercy or Mission UK cover Iron Maiden’s “Children of the Damned”, with Tony Iommi’s guitar solo from War Pigs. Yeah, I know that would be extremely out of genre, but I thing that’s what would make this cool. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/5 "2009-06-17T19:38:29Z")
Not out of genre, but the Odds would be great covering Costello. The other great band for it in the past 20 years, Fastball, already has (Busy Bodies, on the extremely excellently named Costello cover release, _Almost You_.) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/6 "2009-06-17T19:55:08Z")
I’ve always wanted to hear a rap version of the Pogues “Down in the Ground where the Dead Men Go.” ---
**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:** [June 17, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/7 "2009-06-17T21:36:23Z")
I want to hear Alan Jackson cover CCR’s Someday Never Comes. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanTigerTamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@SuntanTigerTamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanTigerTamer)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/8 "2009-06-18T00:43:17Z")
I wish Radiohead would do a “Goodbye Horses” cover so bad I can’t taste it. And it tastes good. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/9 "2009-06-18T02:00:10Z")
I would love to hear Death Cab for Cutie do a cover of something with some real soul… maybe some James Brown or Percy Sledge. They’re so soft, mellow… I think it would be great to hear some soulful depth. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/10 "2009-06-18T02:02:16Z")
Just thought of another… Michael Buble doing Dream On by Aerosmith. That would either really suck or really be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Enniaunus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b2d939/32.png) [@Enniaunus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enniaunus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/11 "2009-06-18T02:04:44Z")
I would like to see an Animal Collective take on “Bohemian Rhapsody”. I really think they could both improve the work and up the weirdness by several orders of magnitude. And **SuntanTigerTamer,** I’d give both right testicles to hear a Radiohead cover of that song. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/12 "2009-06-18T02:07:59Z")
I’d like Tom Waits to do an album that is covers of John Prine songs and I would like Prine to do an ablum of Tom Waits songs. On each album, the artists would include a cover of Amazing Grace. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/13 "2009-06-18T02:13:47Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > I would love to hear Death Cab for Cutie do a cover of something with some real soul… maybe some James Brown or Percy Sledge. They’re so soft, mellow… I think it would be great to hear some soulful depth. Have you heard the Wood/Water CD by the Promise Ring? Diehard fans and consumers alike hated it, but it’s definitely indie rock meets 70s whitebread soul (i.e. more like Paul Simon than James Brown, but still.) ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/14 "2009-06-18T04:45:29Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I’d like Tom Waits to do an album that is covers of John Prine songs … . Actually, the number of songs Tom Waits could do a cover of is endless. For example, I’d like to hear Waits’ take on The Louvin Brothers’ “Satan is Real”. (Johnny Cash would’ve been ideal too but, sadly, that’s no longer possible.) ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/15 "2009-06-18T04:51:40Z")
I know Tom Waits has already done it, but I’d love Nick Cave to take a stab at The Kinks’ “Death of a Clown”. ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/16 "2009-06-18T05:14:39Z")
I would have liked to have heard Black Sabbath perform “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”. The main riff played on Iommi’s distorted guitar plus Ozzy’s vocals, it would have been awesome. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanTigerTamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@SuntanTigerTamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanTigerTamer)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/17 "2009-06-18T05:42:33Z")
> [@Enniaunus](#): > > I would like to see an Animal Collective take on “Bohemian Rhapsody”. I really think they could both improve the work and up the weirdness by several orders of magnitude. > > And **SuntanTigerTamer,** I’d give both right testicles to hear a Radiohead cover of that song. Goodbye Horses is hands down one of my favorite songs of all time. I have a couple of really good covers by Harlem and Fan Death that can be found online easy enough… ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/18 "2009-06-18T13:07:27Z")
I’d love to hear \*\*Prince \*\*cover \*\*The Beatles’ Revolver \*\*- end to end. If he could keep the Man Melisma to a minimum (Knockin’ on Heaven’s Doa-oo-war), I would love to hear \*\*Axl Rose \*\*sing Janis’ **Another Piece of My Heart** I’d be curious to hear how \*\*Queen \*\*would’ve delivered **Madonna’s Burnin’ Up** - that riff would’ve translated well to rock guitar with Deacon’s Bite-the-Dust type bassline working underneath it and if anyone could outsell Madonna, it would’ve been Freddie. That’s a start… ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/19 "2009-06-18T15:34:54Z")
I’d like to hear Opeth cover Metallica’s _One_. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092/20 "2009-06-18T16:41:23Z")
I’d love to hear… … Leon Russell cover “Hey There Little Red Riding Hood”. Just so I could hear him sing “Lllllessen t’mayyyy!!!” … David Bowie do a really campy cover of “Blues in the Night”. (“My momma done told me”… BA BOMP!) … Elvis Costello cover Del Shannon’s “Little Town Flirt”. (He doesn’t have to do the falsetto part.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-_____-would-do-a-cover-of-_____/500092.md?page=2)