Is there a mix or a list or something of songs by non-punk bands that have been covered often by punk groups?

I'm trying to shy away from '90s pop-punk groups or anything by Me First And The Gimme Gimmes.

This was inspired solely by listening to The Monkee's "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone". I know they didn't write it nor were they the first to record it but theirs is probably the most well-known version although it's since become something of a punk standard for groups like the Sex Pistols, Minor Threat, etc.

MC5.

louie louie

I Wanna Be Your Dog

Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought the Law

Lots of stuff by The Troggs and The Fugs. Even further back, The Trashmen were great.

i would definitely agree with the fugs

monks

Love - "Seven and Seven Is"

I don't know if that was really covered by many punk bands, though.

what a wonderful world

Honestly, there's so much of this stuff I don't even know where to start. Half of the real 60s garage bands were punk-like. Also:

The Deviants
Simply Saucer
Modern Lovers
Flamin' Groovies
Pink Fairies
Dictators
Debris'
Radio Birdman (came out about the same time as punk, but still have that same pre-punk feel)

The list goes on and on.

Drano gets extra points for reading.

Extra?

There's the Generation X cover of "The Young Ones" by Cliff Richard

Now that I read it this thread is a lot less interesting.

the who and the kinks get a lot of punk coverage. i don't know if there is a particular standard...maybe "can't explain" and "you really got me."

The Jam covered "David Watts".

I don't really know if there are standards, either. A ton of bands - including a lot of punk bands - have covered "Sweet Jane", and even though I would consider the VU to be pre-punk (among other things), I wouldn't consider that song to necessarily be pre-punk. Punk bands would cover anything from reggae to Sinatra to Springsteen. I haven't really heard a lot of punk covers of garage bands and other pre-punk stuff like the VU (aside from "Sweet Jane"), Modern Lovers, and MC5. But then I haven't heard a lot of live punk albums, and that's probably where a lot of that stuff would be found.

various selections by hasil adkins



"the haze"

b. 1937 c. 2005

I saw a local band do "Temptation" by Tom Waits that was absolutely insane.

Seen quite a few covers of "Sympathy for the Devil"

Also saw a band cover "Take on Me"-- turning the song into something listenable and perhaps even rocked.

Radcliffe to the thread...

Surely some bands have covered Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction" or something by The Sonics. "Psycho" or "The Witch" maybe.

Pretty sure some punk bands mined some Shangri-La's material.

The parameters of this request are way too weakly defined for me to jump in.

Like Derris said, you could look into Count Five, the Sonics, the Standells, the Kingsmen, Question Mark, etcetera - but personally I wouldn't consider any of those bands "non punk".

And most post-77 punk bands picked a little-known cover they could call their own. The only one I can think of that I've heard by more than one band was the Kinks' "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" (oh, irony).

Yeah, I didn't really mean pre-punk as a genre (like, say, post-punk). I was merely thinking of songs that aren't really punk but have been covered by at least a couple of different punk groups.

Specifically songs which were originally written before, oh, 1975 or so.