Top Five: Cover Songs

List out the five songs you would love to cover if you play an instrument or would if you could play an instrument.

Posted by dugh daren in Music, Top Five

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3 Responses to “Top Five: Cover Songs”

1. DB wrote:
   December 31st, 1969 at 4:00 pm

   hmmm
   1. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right by Bob Dylan. It seems that every cover of this song is excellent and instantly boosts my opinion of the artist covering it. Also, it’s my favorite Dylan song.
   2. I’m Going to Stop Pretending that I Didn’t Break Your Heart by Eels. It’s an amazing song. Enough said.
   3. Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It’s an amazingly simple song, but there’s something about it that’s both haunting and welcoming, comforting, beautiful, elegant, and understated.
   4. All You Need is Love by the Beatles. This song is pop music boiled down. It’s a great melody, a simple idea, and its well-executed.
   5. Any song by Bright Eyes, although I’m thinking something earlier before critics really liked him much, maybe Saturday as Usual or Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh. His songs are begging to be reimagined. They’re wonderfully written, but his broken voice and drowned rat hairstyle have given him an emo label that he’ll have a tough time getting rid of.
   That’s the short list. I’ve got quite a few others that I’d love to do.

2. dugh daren wrote:
   December 31st, 1969 at 4:00 pm

   Hard choices…
   There are billions of songs…

   1: I Saw the Light by Hank Williams. I’m not a religious guy, but there is something compelling about the song.
   2: One For My Baby by Frank Sinatra. It’s just begging to be remade and modern.
   3: Louis XIV by The Wolfgang Press. A challenge, but would be worth it if the irreverence shone through.
   4: The Message by Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five. Classic hip hop meets… classical guitar?

   … Let me think about it. I’ll post a fifth one later.

3. Apshai wrote:
   December 31st, 1969 at 4:00 pm

   1. Pipeline
   2. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
   3. Hazy shade of Winter
   4. Desperado
   5. Depressing Todd Song

 

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