Yikes! A GREAT tune by...by...William Shattner!

[Atman]

I heard this on Radio Paradise yesterday...William Shattner's "Common People" with Joe Jackson. Great music and lyrics.

Phazers on stun...It's...not...logical!

Funniest part is, it's from an album called "Has Been."

[vi5]

1. Actually it is a cover tune....

Originally done by a British band called Pulp. The original is great. The cover is enjoyable though.

[Atman]

2. Quirky covers...I love 'em!

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, Ben Folds.

Comfortably Numb, Scissor Sisters.

Insane In The Brain, The Connells.

Our Lips Are Sealed, The Specials

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, The Suicide Machines


Love 'em! Thanks for the tip...I'll go looking for the original as a reference (I didn't think Shattner actually could have had much to do with that other than supplying vocals).

[vi5]

3. A minor point....

I believe the "Our Lips Are Sealed" cover you are talking about was done by Funboy 3 and not the Specials. I think they might have shared some members though, so....

[Atman]

4. Funboy 3 might have done it

But I have a copy of it by The Specials, too.

Maybe it's like Hotel California...so many bands have covered it it's not even worth mentioning. So I won't.

Oops.

[vi5]

5. Truth be told....I've never heard a Hotel California cover...

Who else did this? I know you said you wouldn't mention it, but.... :)

[bmbmd]

6. Went to a "Day of the Dead" celebration

a few years back to hear "Little Joe y La Familia". Sure enough, the first tune out of the box was "Hotel California".

[Atman]

9. I have a reggae version...

by A3, the band who does "Woke Up This Morning," used as the Sopranos theme, and wicked-fast version by The Ska DaddyZ. And those are only two that I can think of.

However, I just thought of the most amazing cover...I have a copy of Fleetwood Mac's TUSK, by Camper Van Beethoven. Not just the song, the entire double album, track for track. Sisters Of The Moon is "sung" by one of the synth voices in Apple's text reader, with some porno lyrics added. Honey Hi is recorded live on a street corner in Mexico, complete with honking cars and pedestrians in the background. It is a hoot. I love it...the "real" version sucks big time, but the CVB version is truly a classic!

[vi5]

10. I've heard that Camper Von Beethoven cover album...

..very weird...but very good.

[warrens]

7. I just heard Shatner's version

Um, Jarvis Cocker isn't gonna be losing any sleep about being slung out of Pulp.

In the quirky cover arena, I saw Secret Machines a while ago do an electronica/feedback version of Girl From the North Country that was pretty amazing.

The oddest cover ever, though, was Wedding Present doing a cover of Pavement's Box Elder, Mo. Before Pavement even released it.

[Aiptasia]

8. I prefer "The Transformed Man"

Nothing can compete with Shatner's version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds...