Trying to get ideas for cover songs. ACOUSTIC!!!

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 10:00 am

Damn, Albion, very good suggestions.

Starman is still my favorite Bowie song, I think.
Policy of Truth is a very, very doable song.
Wife's been after us for a year to Cruel To Be Kind.
Everyday I Write the Book is perfect, if a little harder to pull off. We used to do Allison back in PTC with the full band.

And I never bugged Spoon for the downloads I was looking for, but they're to be covered too if at all possible... the Badfinger and Climax Blues Band songs I mean.

Sketch · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 10:08 am

Rick Derris Wrote:

"Designs on You" - Old 97's

DING! I think "Victoria" would also be great for this.

Elliott Smith - Miss Misery, Waltz #2
Beth Orton - I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine, Stolen Car
The Stooges - Search and Destroy
Radiohead - Optimistic
Helmet - Sam Hell

seafoam · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 10:24 am

Elvis Fu Wrote:

Jerry Jeff Walker, "Sangria Wine"

babe · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:24 pm **Posts:** 314

just like heaven - the cure

no guru · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 10:37 am

Along the lines of Badfinger and Climax Blues Band, you should also do ELO's "Telephone Line"

One of the greatest singles ever (and much better than the joke suggestions I posted in this thread earlier).

Busty Rhodes · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 10:39 am

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

We've also done Green Eyes, but I think only once. Damn good song. The band we had play our wedding reception played that one for us to dance to, and did a damn fine job of it.

We've never done Green Eyes.

And easy with the Squire dude. I've seen videos by that guy that make Stones videos look like masterpieces. Plus that guy made a living off of Robert Plant, plain and simple. I mean I enjoy a couple of songs, but best voaclist of the 80's? :shock:

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 10:42 am

I say again, favorite male vocalist of the 80's. And again, he made some poor decisions with videos, but it's fair to say Mick pretty well paved that road for him... you watch She's So Cold and tell me anything's impossible.

I thought we did Green Eyes once... maybe we practiced it once or something. Or maybe I talked you into it when you were drunk.

Busty Rhodes · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 10:45 am

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

I say again, favorite male vocalist of the 80's.

And I say again... :shock:

Ever heard of a guy named Steve Perry?

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 10:50 am

Oh Perry's up there, but for some reason, Squire just has #1 with a bullet. I think it has something to do with skating rinks and being 8... I seem to recall being just mesmerized by anything Billy Squire and also Mr Roboto by Styx.

As I told Bloor, when discussing his mysteriously healthy doctor evaluation: sometimes things just don't add up.

albion · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 10:54 am

Just listenin' to World Party "Put the Message in the Box" and thought this was catchy and just obscure enough for your eclectic selves.

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 10:54 am

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

As I told Bloor, when discussing his mysteriously healthy doctor evaluation: sometimes things just don't add up.

HAHA! I too was a bit perplexed by this news and a bit hopeful for myself but I'm afraid to actually go to the doctor to find out.

Something's rotten in Denmark though.....

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 10:59 am

Rick Derris Wrote:

Something's rotten in Denmark though.....

Try eating what I did yesterday... went scrounging in the cabinets, and could only come up with a can of veggie baked beans. Not one to back down from a challenge, I put 4 hot dogs and half a package of bacon into it, followed by some Crystal hot sauce, wortchestire (I know I mispelled it, it's early and I don't give a fuck) sauce, and a drop or two of liquid smoke. Ate the whole thing. Then, while putting up flyers, I fell off the Chipotle wagon again, hitting a chicken burrito with corn salsa on the way down.

I could take the paint off a buick.

albion · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 11:11 am

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

I seem to recall being just mesmerized by anything Billy Squire and also Mr Roboto by Styx.

Styx "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)"

Mrs. albion and I saw Styx at the Fred Brown Amphitheater this past weekend. They were good, we were drunk, but not necessarily in that order.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 11:13 am

albion Wrote:

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

I seem to recall being just mesmerized by anything Billy Squire and also Mr Roboto by Styx.

Styx "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)"

Mrs. albion and I saw Styx at the Fred Brown Amphitheater this past weekend. They were good, we were drunk, but not necessarily in that order.

(what I always say when Styx is mentioned)
James Young is my neighbor.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 10:54 pm

Big Star, "Thirteen"

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Public Image Ltd. "Rise"

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Wed May 25, 2005 12:47 am

Jermaine Stewart, "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off"

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

"Head On" Jesus and Mary Chain
"Pretty in Pink" Psychedelic Furs
"Someday, Someway" - Marshall Crenshaw

and if you could pull it off

"Song No. 2" - Blur Woooooo HOooooooooo

np: Linda Jones "Greatest Hits"

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Wed May 25, 2005 1:13 am

Iggy Pop, "The Passenger"
Only Ones, "Another Girl, Another Planet"

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

"Everyday is Like Sunday" - Morrissey
"Eurotrash Girl" - Cracker
"Government Center" - Jonathan Richman
"Birdhouse in Your Soul" - They Might Be Giants

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2005 10:08 pm

"From New York To L.A." - Patsy Gallant
"I Love The Nightlife" - Alicia Bridges
"Brother Louie" - Stories
"Sunshine" - Jonathan Edwards
"Cum Feel The Noize" - Slade
"Hot Girls In Love" - Loverboy
"Boogie Oogie Oogie" - A Taste Of Honey
"Beautiful Sunday" - Daniel Boone
"Cherry Baby" - Starz
"Hey Deanie" - Shaun Cassidy
"The Boys Are Back In Town" - Thin Lizzy
"The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" - Vicki Lawrence
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" - Edison Lighthouse
"Dancing In The Moonlight" - King Harvest
"Beds Are Burning" - Midnight Oil
"I Know What Boys Like" - the Waitresses

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2005 10:45 pm

Phranc, "M-A-R-T-I-N-A"

Before you dismiss it, think of just one other song where you can spell "Czechoslovakia"

Also, anything by Wally Pleasant, for instance,
"Alternateen"
"The Day Ted Nugent Killed All The Animals"
"I Hate Cops"

HaqDiesel · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2005 10:51 pm

"Caribbean queen, now we're shaaaring the same dream, and our hearts will beat as oooone"

Do it.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2005 10:51 pm

wow. This will take some digesting.

Busty has fallen ill, btw, and we hadda call off tonight's gig, which is a first. He sounded like abolute ass on the phone. Sucks. Would that I were a better singer, and could carry on alone.

Ah, well.

no guru · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 11:11 am

Oh, you should also do "Poopship Destroyer"

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np: Ween - Poopship Destroyer

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