Which cover song should we learn?

[XNASA]

Our band, 'Vendooza', ...

www.vendooza.net

...needs to learn a couple of cover songs to round out our set. We have a repertoire of 15 originals with a handful of other original songs that aren't complete, but we thought it would be fun to learn a couple of cover songs.

Take into consideration that we're a bunch of mid-40-ish ex-punks who play high energy Midwestern/Detroit power pop/garage rock kinda stuff. Guitars only, very loud.

So which song do you think best fits us?

[dwckabal]

1. Gotta go with Iggy! n/t

[cheezus]

2. Britney! I love cross genre covers

The best are punk versions of country songs

[XNASA]

3. Me too.

I had a friend in a local band called "Iggy Yoakum and the Pogo Ponies" and they only did Punk songs country-style, or Country songs Punk-style.

They were great.

[cheezus]

21. get on kazaa or similar and do a search for "punk cover"

there's gold to be had there

[Screaming Lord Byron]

24. Yeah. 'Can't get you out of my head' by Kylie works suspiciously well.

[el_gato]

4. negative

your song negative sounds a little like Iggy on "I'm Loose"

so maybe you ought to go for the iggy toon :)

[XNASA]

6. We've never actually played that song live.

Not sure why it's on our site.

But that's reason enough, not to do an Iggy song. Best to branch out as much as we can.

Know what I mean?

[el_gato]

9. yea, i know what you mean

you also remind me of poison 13 a little too

anyway sounds good keep rockin'

[muchacho]

5. Frampton Comes Alive

Do You Feel Like We Do

[AverageJoe]

7. Sheena is a Punk Rocker

by the Ramones!

[XNASA]

10. Not enough irony.

It's either got to be something more obscure, or something much further out there.

[ihaveaquestion]

8. Why not do them all? Couldn't hurt.

[TlalocW]

11. Mystic Spiral

From the cartoon "Daria." They had a great song called "Every Dog Has Its Day."

You put me on a short leash
And took away my hydrant
You ate up all my kibble
Now my coat's no longer vibrant
My nose is dry and chapped
But this puppy's here to stay
Rub my belly, baby
Every dog has his day
ARRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

TlalocW

[underpants]

12. What, no Orleans or Bob Welch covers?

My wife has been "watching" the sounds of the 70's channel on digital recently.

[buddhamama]

13. 'I Can Only Give You Everything' - MC 5

big MC5 fan.

[JVS]

14. The Chicken Dance

[mac56]

15. An unlikely cover? Here's a great one.

The band Any Trouble (early 80s from Stiff Records) recorded a great live cover of Abba's "The Name Of The Game". I'm not an Abba fan, which I know is good for a severe flaming here, but their version actually made this song listenable.

[XNASA]

17. I'm not ashamed to admit it. I love ABBA.

And Vendooza covering an ABBA song would be sweet.

I'm thinkin' maybe 'SOS'.

[GOPisEvil]

16. You need a song to mess with people's heads in a funny way.

I suggest "Jesse's Girl".

[XNASA]

18. Well that certainly messes with my head.

Yoinks!!

[GOPisEvil]

20. Hey, there's lotsa crunchy guitar riffs...EVERYONE knows the song.

I guarantee everyone in the audience would be smiling.

[XNASA]

27. So far, nobody in our audience has smiled.

It pretty much looks like a sea of pissed-off people dressed in black with a cigarettes hanging out of their mouths.

Seems like we attract the angry artist crowd.

[BurtWorm]

19. Zig Zag Wanderer

by Captain Beefheart, or anything from Safe as Milk.

[jpgray]

23. Covering Beefheart is problematic--who has that kind of voice? (nt)

[BurtWorm]

25. The Kool-Aid pitcher

I know that's sacrilege, but there's a certain Kool-Aid commercial in which the pitcher groans exactly like the Captain. '

Zig-Zag Wanderer doesn't really require that rasp, anyway.

[jpgray]

30. 'OH YEAHHH!'

You're right, 'Zig Zag' doesn't really need it. In fact, a lot of Safe as Milk, barring 'Electricity' and a few others is more or less singable.

[blindpig]

29. answer

Howling Wolf, but he's dead.
.
edited cause my fingers are stupid.

[jpgray]

31. Chester was way scarier than Van Vliet

:scared:

Great voice.

[BurtWorm]

33. Yessir!

In fact that's probably from whom the Captain learned how to sing.

[jpgray]

22. 'He's a Whore' is an awesome song, my old band covered it

And with great success, I might add. We did have endless arguments on the lyrics--our bassist somehow hearing 'I could even crack a smile/But I left it inside of a mile' whereas everyone else heard 'I couldn't even fake a smile/But I'm laughing inside all the while'.

[XNASA]

26. The lyrics I have say...

And I can even fake a smile
But I'm laughing inside all the while

[jpgray]

28. Hooray. I win. (nt)

[arcane1]

32. "I Hate Republicans" by the Happytones

:)

[XNASA]

34. Good one.

I think it would be great to do a song with some lighthearted political overtones.

[arcane1]

35. love that song

makes a good gather-round-the-campfire, singalong song, too :P

[jpgray]

36. I would recommend some of the Fall's work

Without keyboards, try 'Totally Wired' or 'Living Too Late'--awesome songs both. One comes complete with a Hunter S. Thompson quote.