There should totally be an x cover of y!!!

Less an actual cover idea and more a concept in general, but I think it would be interesting to see two totally different artists collab and perform a famous mashup between their songs, as if it were the original. I'm aware some have done this already, but I still think it's an underrated idea.

I'd like to see is some of the "non-traditional" James Bond themes like Live and Let Die or A View To a Kill done in the style of a "classic" Bond theme.

An Alternative Rock or Emo cover of "Lights" by Ellie Goulding. It kinda has that quiet verse/loud chorus dynamic favored by rock music, and I just think the already epic-sounding chorus would sound even better with some rock drumming and distorted guitar. Emo because I was initially thinking about something in the style of Fall Out Boy for some reason, but now I'm thinking more of Foo Fighters - specifically the more bombastic/heavier side of Foo Fighters exemplified by "All My Life" and the like. Or to keep the female vocals, Halestorm could do a version.

Edited by MikeK on Oct 8th 2018 at 6:36:25 AM

An neofolk cover of "Liar" by Rollins Band

So I listened to to the early Sparks album A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing and noticed "Moon Over Kentucky" has some odd similarities with Fantomas, which Mark Prindle also noted in a review. I'm mainly thinking of the eerie piano, falsetto, and bass intro part, but the whole thing would sound cool remade in Fantomas' avant-metal style. Maybe it could be more of a "Fantomas-Melvins Big Band" thing, with Mike Patton and Buzz Osbourne dueting. Patton is apparently a Sparks fan, what with Faith No More appearing on the Sparks album Plagiarism, so this could plausibly happen.

Edited by MikeK on Nov 14th 2018 at 5:47:07 AM

A first wave ska or reggae version of "Lay Lady Lay": I saw Bedouin Soundclash open up for Mighty Mighty Bosstones last weekend, and I swear one of their original songs sounded like "Lay Lady Lay" for a few bars before going somewhere totally different, so I got distracted thinking about what an actual ska version of that song would be like.

So, I remembered the other day a list of 1976's worst songs Todd In The Shadows did, and it had a song called "Convoy" by C.W. McCall, where he just slowly drones on a story composed of nonsensical terms that are supposed to be trucker lingo. Imagine if Primus did a cover of that. The song would become so much better if it were sped up and done in their signature style, and it fits perfectly content-wise.

Edited by Small_Mess on Jan 13th 2019 at 1:41:21 PM

This is gonna sound stupid, but...I really want a 1920s jazz version of "Let It Go".

This is an awesome idea. If Primus had a third cover EP like Miscellaneous Debris and Rhinoplasty I could see that making the tracklist.

A reggae or first wave ska version of Lake Of Fire by Meat Puppets- inspired by a bad karaoke track of the Nirvana version that unintentionally sounded like reggae.

A "mashup" cover of "It's Been Awhile" by Staind and "Gone Away" by The Offspring- base the music more on the former, but use the chorus lyrics to the latter. The chords are similar, and since one's a Break-Up Song and the other's a Grief Song, if you combined the lyrics it'd sound like the narrator had a failed relationship with the subject of the song, then she died before he got to reconnect with her and apologize

Edited by MikeK on Mar 16th 2019 at 10:54:00 AM

Is it just me or would Deftones do a really good version of "You Should See Me In A Crown" by Billie Eilish?

Edited by MikeK on Apr 3rd 2019 at 8:31:08 AM

Social Distortion - Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits

The Afghan Whigs - Heaven In Hiding by Halsey

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - When We Two Parted by the Afghan Whigs

Soundgarden (RIP Chris) - Layla by Eric Clapton.

I lowkey need a Led Zeppelin cover of Electric Funeral by Black Sabbath.

I had an interesting conversation with someone who had been around for Sabbath and Zeppelin's heyday, who had this interesting point that the two bands were kind of opposite sides of the same coin. So I feel like in general Sabbathized Zeppelin covers or vice versa could be cool.

"I Was Made For Loving You" by KISS was their attempt at a disco rock crossover, so it would be right in Electric Six's wheelhouse. Alternately, have an industrial rock band like Revolting Cocks ham it up or have Franz Ferdinand or The Killers play it straighter

In general, take a band that have two distinct periods, and organize a cover album where early period songs are done more like the later ones and vice versa. I was specifically thinking of a Ministry tribute where all their early songs are covered by industrial metal bands and all the later songs are covered by synthpop/darkwave bands. I can totally see an angrier, distorted guitar-based "Revenge" working.

Edited by MikeK on Feb 24th 2020 at 8:47:53 AM

I've been listening to a lot of Ben Folds and I decided Ben Folds Five would do a good version of "The End Of The Tour" by They Might Be Giants - it's sorta keyboard oriented, I can imagine Ben singing the melody, and the distorted guitar leads would sound cool on Robert Sledge's fuzz bass.

Pig Destroyer should cover Kites Are Fun by The Free Design.

Russian Hardbass cover of Kikuo's Climb! Advance! To the Tall Towers!

Just imagine a bunch of gopota dancing outside of Trump Towers to the sound of hardbass with the rapping part about anti-Western stuff (in a comical way). While the original song's lyrics (with themes of greed, heaven, prosperity, and downfall) are still left intact.

It'll be interesting to hear. I may even get a good laugh at it.

Megadeth cover of Kickstart My Heart

Soul Coughing covering Nine Inch Nails' "Discipline". More realistically it'd be Mike Doughty solo. Something about how Trent repeats words at the end of lines in the verses (e.g. "down down down down") strikes me as something Doughty would do.

Electric Wizard should cover Led Zeppelin's Dazed and Confused. EW would make it sound absolutely massive.

Ahab [A nautical themed Doom band] should cover The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. It would fit with them thematically and I think they would make the lead guitar soul crushing.

I'm not familiar with the band (I'll check them out sometime because it's a cool concept), but I can see the main guitar riff sounding cool with heavy metal-style distortion.

More of a The Cover Changes the Meaning idea: "I'm A Boy" by The Who is about a biological boy being raised as a girl against his will, but with maybe one or two lyrical changes, it could also apply to a trans man who realized they were trans at an early age but their parent(s) wouldn't accept it.

A creepy, minor key cover of "Take On Me" by A-ha - take this minor key remix of it, set the video play speed to .75 and you'll sorta get the feel I'd want. Because 1) it'd sound like a stalker song/yandere anthem (since lines like "you're shying away, I'll be coming for you anyway" kinda lean there to begin with), and 2) that happy epic synth riff sounds kinda cool and spooky in minor key.

Edited by MikeK on Oct 7th 2020 at 5:56:03 AM

I was listening to a Slayer box set that includes a couple of Jeff Hanneman's original demos - his original sketch for "South Of Heaven" includes a cleaner, more subdued variation on the main riff that I don't remember being used in the final product - that and the fact the demo uses a drum machine makes me think a full on Goth Rock version would be cool: something like The Cure circa Pornography.