# Spot-on covers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2018, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-on-covers/825482 "2018-12-03T04:52:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-on-covers/825482/81 "2019-03-24T23:27:01Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > ELO cover that hits the spot (if not precisely spot-on): > > by [Fountains of Wayne](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48qd_jr3lcU&frags=pl%2Cwn). > [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](#): > > This is weird. REALLY weird. I _adore_ Fountains of Wayne. They’re up there vying for position as my favourite band ever. And I have that ELO track and have listened to it - by ELO - dozens of times. > > And now, reading your post, I notice for the first time that that Fountains live track from Out Of State Plates is an ELO cover. Velvet Revolver also did a pretty satisfying cover of that song. Featuring Slash on guitar and Scott Weiland on vocals. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EwZztMxAMB0/hqdefault.jpg "Velvet Revolver - Can't Get It Out Of My Head (HQ) + Lyrics") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwZztMxAMB0) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-on-covers/825482/82 "2019-03-26T04:55:19Z")
> [@kezami](#): > > Can’t touch Leonid & Friends, the best[Chicago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwYV4H9rU6o&list=RDD5XmUnYW5Ks&index=2) cover band in the world. You should hear them do [Earth, Wind & Fire](https://youtu.be/D5XmUnYW5Ks). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-on-covers/825482/83 "2019-03-26T05:49:10Z")
> [@LLCoolL](#): > > Bonus: Susanna Hoffs must have made a deal with the devil, because she looks \*\*amazing \*\*for her age. Hell, she just plain looks amazing. Without the 80s big hair and heavy makeup, she looks more appealing now than she did then. And she was smokin’ then… Boy Howdy! That broke my Google! ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-on-covers/825482/84 "2019-03-26T10:31:17Z")
There is a bluegrass band. Not whateverhisnameis’n’seagulls their version is awful, not The Cleverlys, although I thought it was them until I went hunting the video I watched. For the life of me I cannot remember the name of ths group. 2 skinny men, 2 women, did a cover of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck that is exactly perfect. Who would have thought that a hard rocking song about a drunken gangbang orgy would make such a good bluegrass song. I did try to post links, but my phone is on a links diet right now and kept eating the posts, so sorry about that. If you go looking, whatshisface and his birds are ok, the cleverlys were terrible. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-on-covers/825482/85 "2019-03-26T10:38:47Z")
Too late for the edit, i meant the cleverlys were awful amd whats his name and seagulls were ok compared to each other. Youtube was insistent that those were the only ones i was allowed to see. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-on-covers/825482/86 "2019-04-05T13:25:27Z")
Remembered a couple more: In 1974, Larry Weiss released a song he wrote, [Rhinestone Cowboy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kMvv_kg4Bc), which got a limited amount of radio airplay. But one of the persons who heard it was Glen Campbell, and a year later [his version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kAU3B9Pi_U) went to #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Also in 1974, Tim Moore released a song that he wrote, [Second Avenue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o39qhT4dvcE), which peaked at #58. Unfortunately for him, Art Garfunkel [released a version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umbFpK4DxcI) at the same time, which peaked at #34. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-on-covers/825482.md?page=4)