# Who would you like to see cover what song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807 "2013-07-29T12:41:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/41 "2013-08-02T04:35:25Z")
I’d go with the Dead Kennedys covering \*Three Ravens. \* ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/42 "2013-08-06T04:06:55Z")
Karen Carpenter covering “Dog And Butterfly”. ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/43 "2013-08-06T15:59:02Z")
I think this has come up before. I definitely recall mentioning that I’d like to hear Peter Murphy or Bauhaus do Jefferson Airplane’s/Great Society’s “Somebody to Love” (Though Queen’s would be interesting too) ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/44 "2013-08-06T21:37:38Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > AC/DC’s “Ride On” would have been perfect for an older country singer like Johnny Cash. > > I’d still like to hear Willie Nelson do it. I like it - if I close my eyes I can almost hear that. I actually did see Norah Jones live about 8-10 years ago and she closed her set with that song. It actually worked pretty well. I’d like to hear Patty Griffin cover Tom Petty’s “American Girl”, a little slower tempo and infusing a little more pain and regret into the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/45 "2013-08-06T21:41:52Z")
Prodigy doing MacArthur Park 138 BPM, man! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/46 "2013-08-18T16:37:52Z")
Nirvana’s “About a Girl” done by the Beatles, circa 1963. (Either you’d need a time machine, or have one of the better Beatle cover bands do it, maybe Rain.) Kurt Cobain wrote the song after playing the CD “With the Beatles” over and over for an entire night, and it shows. His songwriting style naturally tended toward the early Lennon/McCartney approach to chord patterns, verse/refrain/bridge patterns, etc., but it’s more evident in this particular song than in most. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/47 "2013-08-18T16:55:53Z")
I always wished Frank Sinatra would have covered Steely Dan’s [Deacon Blues.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A0wGO3c2T8) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/48 "2013-08-18T17:07:45Z")
I should have added that what made Cobain most like other great songwriters (including Lennon and, especially, McCartney) was his feel for _melody_, especially vocal melody. Unfortunately, few of Nirvana’s imitators shared this skill. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/49 "2013-08-18T17:12:36Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I wonder what a Monkees version of _Sugar, Sugar_ would sound like. Or a Turtles version of _Daydream Believer_. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/50 "2013-08-18T17:42:07Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Maybe he’s done this already and I’m not aware of it but I’d like to hear Elvis Costello cover a Warren Zevon song (just so long as it’s not “Werewolves of London” but I’m sure Costello would know better). Now that you mention it, I always wished that someone would have done those British new wave songwriters (Costello, Nick Lowe, Joe Jackson) as orchestrated sixties style pop tracks. Could you imagine Lesley Gore doing “Cruel To Be Kind” or Petula Clark on “Accidents Can Happen”? ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/51 "2013-08-18T18:02:30Z")
Actually, the cover song I’ve most wanted to hear is actually recorded, but I’ve never been able to find a copy. The “Kiss My Ass” tribute CD, a tribute to Kiss, had some great songs, but there were several that didn’t make the final cut. Most notably: Soundgarden covering “War Machine.” ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/52 "2013-08-18T18:12:56Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > Now that you mention it, I always wished that someone would have done those British new wave songwriters (Costello, Nick Lowe, Joe Jackson) as orchestrated sixties style pop tracks. Could you imagine Lesley Gore doing “Cruel To Be Kind” or Petula Clark on “Accidents Can Happen”? [Voila.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSWLqlrt_2U) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/53 "2013-08-18T20:19:52Z")
Peter Gabriel covering Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/54 "2013-08-18T20:58:51Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Bob Dylan – Stuck in the Middle With You > > Just to confuse people further. [Slow clap] ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807/55 "2013-08-18T22:08:10Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > I always wished Frank Sinatra would have covered Steely Dan’s [Deacon Blues.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A0wGO3c2T8) I can see that, but he’d lost the best of his voice by the time that song came out. An early-60s Frank could have done interesting things. A late-70s one would have done a Shatneresque “reading” full of pauses that would have sounded like a bad parody of himself. Jimmy Buffett could still do a killer rendition of “Hey Nineteen,” though - better now than any prior era, perhaps. I’d love to hear a slow, solo acoustic version and a jacked-up live version, maybe in a duet with… Maria Muldaur. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-like-to-see-cover-what-song/664807.md?page=2)