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    Posted: May 03 2016 at 01:12
Any songs who wanted to have heard by different artists, but never happened? For example:

Sex Pistols - "Elected" (Alice Cooper)
Frank Zappa - "International Lover" (Prince)

And that's all I got for now.
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Rush - "Achilles' Last Stand" (Zeppelin)
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Fela Kuti - De Futura (Magma)
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I thought of another one: Marc Bolan covering Donovan's "La Moora". 
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Fela Kuti - De Futura (Magma)

I don't know how that would work, but, if it happened, you could count on me to be first in line at the record store that day.
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Rush - "Achilles' Last Stand" (Zeppelin)
Yeah! I love their Feedback cover album and always wondered why it didn't include one of their biggest influences (Zep).

Here's my ideal 'other artists cover Devin Townsend' album: LOL

Band - Song - Style they might use
Between the Buried and Me - Ziltodia Attaxx!!!
The Mars Volta - Away - I could see them just keeping the main riff and then Omar and Juan trading solos with Cedric scat singing throughout.
Jethro Tull - Gaia - Ian Anderson and his acoustic.
Nine Inch Nails - Thing Beyond Things
Tom Waits - Deathscope - As if it were from Bad as Me
Mr. Bungle - Regulator - Longer, keep the riff but play a lot more wacky stuff over it, same crazy diversity of vocals
Gojira - Universal Flame - Heavier, less melodic, more aggressive vocals, maybe whisper-sing (like From Mars) at the end from "Though you feel..." with only soft drumming and then from "The sun will rise again" back to shouted/growled vocals with only heavy drumming accompaniment.


Edited by HemispheresOfXanadu - May 27 2016 at 23:42
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The White Album performed by Sonic Youth.
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I always wanted to hear Roxy Music do a really wild, campy version of "I Put a Spell on You" in the style of their early records. When Bryan Ferry actually did record a version, it was nothing at all like what I had in mind.
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- The Happy Tree Friends Theme by Laibach would be terrific - or terrifying?
 - Napalm Death's "You Suffer" by Sunn 0))) - so the song could last at least 30 seconds.
 - acoustic versions of material from industrial artists such as Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Merzbow, Maurizio Bianchi or Esplendor Geometrico.
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Waiting for the Sun-era The Doors doing Nick Drake's "Free Ride." Which would've been impossible, since that song came out five years later. It's just something that my mind has come up with out of nowhere.
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Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Fela Kuti - De Futura (Magma)

I don't know how that would work, but, if it happened, you could count on me to be first in line at the record store that day.


I think there is some sort of common ground between the two - especially in the way they use tribal like rhythms to propel the music forth...and I could just imagine De Futura dressed in an altogether more Africanised funk drive - booties a'shakin!

More:
Elephant9 - 'Via Lumiere' by PFM
Mr. Bungle - 'Wanna Be Startin' Something' by Michael J
Yugen - 'Out Bloody Rageous' by The Softs
Grails - 'In den Gärten Pharaos' by Popol Vuh
Rihanna - 'Close To The Edge'
Claudio Milano - 'Blueberry Hill'
Diamanda Galas - 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes'
Animal Collective - 'Vodka Cola' by Area
Last but not least The Budos Band doing a funky Motown version of Klaus Schulze's 'Friedrich Nietzsche' off the X album.
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2016 at 17:22
Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:


 Napalm Death's "You Suffer" by Sunn 0))) - so the song could last at least 30 seconds


Funny, I was thinking I'd have Slayer cover Tales From Topographic Oceans - I reckon they could get through the whole thing in ten minutes or so.
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Points: 10837 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2016 at 05:21
Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:


 Napalm Death's "You Suffer" by Sunn 0))) - so the song could last at least 30 seconds


Funny, I was thinking I'd have Slayer cover Tales From Topographic Oceans - I reckon they could get through the whole thing in ten minutes or so.


Not uncanny: after all, saxophonist Ryoko Ono (from SaxRuins, with Yoshida Tatsuya on drums) had made a cover of ELP's Tarkus lasting barely 15 minutes instead of a whole half-hour!
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Points: 6777 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2016 at 15:50
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Fela Kuti - De Futura (Magma)

I don't know how that would work, but, if it happened, you could count on me to be first in line at the record store that day.


I think there is some sort of common ground between the two - especially in the way they use tribal like rhythms to propel the music forth...and I could just imagine De Futura dressed in an altogether more Africanised funk drive - booties a'shakin!

More:
Elephant9 - 'Via Lumiere' by PFM
Mr. Bungle - 'Wanna Be Startin' Something' by Michael J
Yugen - 'Out Bloody Rageous' by The Softs
Grails - 'In den Gärten Pharaos' by Popol Vuh
Rihanna - 'Close To The Edge'
Claudio Milano - 'Blueberry Hill'
Diamanda Galas - 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes'
Animal Collective - 'Vodka Cola' by Area
Last but not least The Budos Band doing a funky Motown version of Klaus Schulze's 'Friedrich Nietzsche' off the X album.


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Points: 6777 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2016 at 16:03
I think it would be really cool to hear a live collaboration between Yes and Lynyrd Skynyrd to do a Starship Trooper/Free Bird medley.
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Points: 10837 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2016 at 05:48
- Mötörhead covering "Siberian Khathru" would have sounded great.
- Jello Biafra with any of his bands for VdGG's "Killer"
- Nirvana (the one of Kurt Cobain, of course) on King Crimson's "Another Red Nightmare" or "Great Deceiver"
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Points: 7951 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2016 at 06:21
I never knew I wanted the Swedish girly-pop band the Cardigans to cover not one but TWO Black Sabbath tunes, and yet here they did quite superbly! Here's one of them:

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John Cale - Til I Die by the Beach Boys. Aggressively with just lead vocal and piano. Sounds really good in my head.
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Points: 1774 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2016 at 19:14
There are many that would sound pretty good, but here's some I can think of that I'd love in particular:

L7 covering a Motorhead or Judas Priest song.
Alice in Chains covering Black Sabbath
Rush covering Zeppelin's Kashmir

Then finally, Metallica covering their own St. Anger album. If it didn't have that garbage can drum sound, it would be a killer album.
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