#26

Nah, my band were never that popular.

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#28

Any post Rock band

#29

Yeah true. The number of times H&M blast out Dead Flag Blues you’d have thought Ed Sheeran would have done a cover by now.

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#30

Terrible!

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#31

BTW, this post may be of interest to you

#32

What are all these Radiohead covers? Drugstore used to do Black Star live but don’t think they ever released it.

#33

All these? I dunno about LOADS but it was more the juxtaposition of how Radiohead aren’t really a huge band that you hear all the time on the radio yet Oasis are…but no one seems to be bothered about covering them.

IIRC Mark wassiname from Take That covered Creep on his solo album and there’s weird cover of a Bends era-song on Clueless I think it is? Maybe I’m just misremembering.

TBH, I just wondered about people who get covered. Feels like Bob Dylan is a big one for people covering him. Is it that he’s a weird singer so people feel they can bring more to his tracks?

#34

Ah, okay. That’s different to what I thought you were saying.

Think with Dylan it’s a combination: early stuff is easy to play, words are well known and the vocal isn’t intimidating.

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#35

Probably a combination of the songs being superb and Dylan’s limited voice leaving a blank canvas for a singer to interpret them - the same reasons Leonard Cohen is covered a lot.

#36

As far as I’m aware, both Radiohead songs on Clueless are by Radiohead. It’s their acoustic version of Fake Plastic trees, which was a cd2 b-side of the original version. The My Iron Lung riff was used twice and once it’s played at a different speed, but it’s the original one.

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#37

I have either invented it or seen a load more similar films and lost track. Either is entirely plausible.

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#39

They did a couple of remixes. Not sure about covers.

#40

Always quite enjoyed this lemondheads cover of live forever…only bought the single for the artwork.

Worked really well with the fade to black cover on the same release;

(that may not be the same version)

#41

Don’t see many Nirvana covers released. Doing a faithful version of most of their songs would be pretty difficult given how accomplished they already were. Probably yer best bet is to reinterpret them in a similar vein to this (imo brilliant) americana tinged Sturgill Simpson version

#42

The Melvins did this, which feels pretty pointless - a straight cover with some semi famous actor / singer (Leif Garrett?) on vocals

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#43

Seem to remember Melvins have a few covers that seem just thrashed out for the hell of it (e.g. Lexicon devil).

Actually kinda defeating my own ‘not widely covered’ point but this is too good not to share

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#44

Ah ok. I just have this memory of that very distinctive PSB synth sound but on Girls & Boys.

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#45

There was a whole album of covers by Little Roy. A bit silly I guess but actually pretty entertaining.