The Cover Song Thread

[The Sludge]

Here's the deal. Pop punk is known for their cover songs. If you so do wish, you can discuss your favorites and possibly swap some ones that spark your interest.

Some of ones that come to mind for me...

The Offspring - Totalimmortal
The Ataris - I Remember You
AFI - My Michelle
Green Day - Outsider

[Grohlthegreat]

can this include ska-punk bands?

[DepthsOfDreams555]

can this include ska-punk bands?

absolutely not

[The Sludge]

Pretty much any cover songs tbh.

[Grohlthegreat]

absolutely not

ok :mad:

[hey, you're not cory!]

Between the Buried and Me's cover albums is really good.

[BridgeToSolace]

Good bands don't do covers.

But I'm so detached from a lot of older, popular music that I probably don't even recognize it when bands do covers.

Like I had no idea that Gob - Paint It Black was a cover until my sister told me.

[cobert]

PATD covering FOB in every song.

JK LOLOLOL

I actually cant think of any pop-punk covers right now, but i know there are tons.

[Grohlthegreat]

MCS - Pop Song 89 is pretty good

[Virus278]

Blink 182 - A Letter to Elise
Blink 182 - Dancing with Myself

I love both those songs.

[bottlerocket]

Good bands don't do covers.

I disagree. Can you explain?

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes do some good covers.

Dancing with Myself by blink...any of the Punk Goes 80s CDs...

[lunchforthesky]

Jesse Lacey does a good cover of:

Car - Built to Spill
Two Headed Boy pt. 2 - Neutral Milk Hotel
Accident Prone - Jawbreaker

[iarescientists]

Cap'n Jazz - Take on Me
I also saw a cover Fall Out Boy did of Beat It and it was pretty awesome

[tom79]

Down by Law - 500 Miles
Gob - Paint it Black

[Danger Bird]

A pop-punk band needs to cover the theme from Good Times. Bouncing Souls should do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo6caNX1e84

[Jessizzle]

best cover ever

Mr Jones -skratch 3
Mad world - makeshift heroes ( i know everyone covers this song.. but seriously, best cover ever)

[Sound Boy]

Reggie and the Full Effect - "Raining BLood"
Goldfinger - "Feel like Making Love"
Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies - "Nothing Compares 2 U"
Get Up Kids - "Close to me"
New Amsterdams - "Girl, Why'd you Run Away"
Paramore - "my Hero"
Atreyu - "You Give Love a bad Name"
AFI - "head like a hole"

[PietroCrespi]

Cap'n Jazz - Take on Me

:thumb:

[Charlie Manson]

Sum41 - Metallica Medley

[Virus278]

AFI - The Hanging Garden
Brand New - Am I Wrong

[B]

cap'n jazz - take on me

ataris - boys of summer

starting line - i'm real

[CommieCanada]

what about non pop punk bands covering pop-punk songs?

Lucero - Kiss the Bottle (Jawbreaker)

[British Kid]

cap'n jazz - take on me

ataris - boys of summer

starting line - i'm real

that was my favorite song ever for a long time.

[Gnarmageddon]

Between the Buried and Me's cover albums is really good.
Rofl. Giles can do Freddie Mercury so well.

Cap'n Jazz - Take On Me
AFI - Values Here
Erik Petersen - Police Bastard

[Jessizzle]

i didnt even know take on me was a cover.. lolll

maybe because it probly sounds nothing like the original?

but yeah everyone should listen to more cap n jazz.

[Milo in college]

The Queers do some good ones. Including Hawaii - The Beach Boys, a The Kids are Alright - The Who, My Old Mans a Fatso - Angry Samoans

[Hi My Name Is Mark]

A pop-punk band needs to cover the theme from Good Times. Bouncing Souls should do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo6caNX1e84

Blink-182 did it. Check out the Vagrant Records "Five Years on the Street" I believe it's called. It's a decent cover...Mark sings it.

and majority of Me First & The Gimme Gimme's songs are sick, especially when they use intros from old punk bands (They used Astro Zombies for the intro to On The Road Again and a lot of others...I think it was on one or two songs per album when they did this)

Suicide Machines - It's The End Of The World As We Know It - REM

Smoking Popes - Pure Imagination (Charlie & The Chocolate Factory original movie)

Ben Folds - Tiny Dancer (Elton John)

There's tons of good covers around.

[cobert]

Rofl. Giles can do Freddie Mercury so well.

Definitely, he sounded dead on. I actually kind of didnt like their cover album since the songs sounded too much like the originals, the band didnt put any spin on them. It sounded less like covers and more like the original song done by somebody really good at karaoke.

[Virus278]

Here are some more:

AFI - Demonomania
AFI - Haloween
AFI - Don't Change
AFI - Jack the Ripper
AFI - Today's Lesson
AFI - Last Caress
AFI - Man in a Suitcase
AFI - Whatever I Do
AFI - Open Your Eyes
Blink 182 - The Girl Next Door
Blink 182 - Freak Scene
Blink 182 - The Longest Line
Blink 182 - Another Girl, Another Planet

[Pete]

best pop-punk cover ever;

losing my religion - craig's brother (REM cover)

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes do some good covers.

i hope you mean that like "mfatgg do some good covers, but some of their covers are not so good" and not "mfatgg do some good covers, but i like their original material better" :amaze:

[B]

i didnt even know take on me was a cover.. lolll

maybe because it probly sounds nothing like the original?

but yeah everyone should listen to more cap n jazz.

are you serious how can you not tell it sounds mad like the original :/

[Hi My Name Is Mark]

best pop-punk cover ever;

losing my religion - craig's brother (REM cover)



i hope you mean that like "mfatgg do some good covers, but some of their covers are not so good" and not "mfatgg do some good covers, but i like their original material better" :amaze:

Technically, you could say the latter if you are referring to each member in his main band, but it would be a very broad statement. I love Spike's voice though. I wish he sang more songs for Swingin' Utters.

Anything Richard Cheese does is usually pretty funny. But he did a Killers song that sucked. I love the intro he does making fun of U2 on Sunday Bloody Sunday (making fun of Bono's Spanish skills in Vertigo) and his cover of We Are The World or w/e.

[skingle]

Baby Britain - Bayside
Feelings - The Offspring

[bottlerocket]

but yeah everyone should listen to more cap n jazz.

The world would be a better place.

[The Jungler]

Blink 182 - Freak SceneIs this good? I guess it would be pretty cool.

I would say Take on Me if so many people hadn't already.

[Jessizzle]

are you serious how can you not tell it sounds mad like the original :/

i said i dont even know the original, i just ASSUMED it would sound tottally diffrent because iv like never heard anyband that sounds like cap n jazz god you idiot.

[bottlerocket]

i hope you mean that like "mfatgg do some good covers, but some of their covers are not so good" and not "mfatgg do some good covers, but i like their original material better" :amaze:

Nah, I don't like their original material; just the covers. And only some...which is why I said some. :p

i said i dont even know the original, i just ASSUMED it would sound tottally diffrent because iv like never heard anyband that sounds like cap n jazz god you idiot.

The fact you've never heard Aha's "Take on Me" makes me think your entire life is a lie.

That's probably THE best thing to come out of the 80s. No lie.

Best song ever.

[B]

i said i dont even know the original, i just ASSUMED it would sound tottally diffrent because iv like never heard anyband that sounds like cap n jazz god you idiot.

do you live under a ****ing rock how could you have never heard that song?

123 gav

[Virus278]

Is this good? I guess it would be pretty cool.


Well, it's pretty crappy quality because it's on Flyswatter but I like it. I can upload it for you if you want.

[cobert]

TAAAAAAAAAAAAKE
OOOOOOOOOOOON
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

TAKE
ON
ME

[PietroCrespi]

I knew it was a cover, but I had never heard the original until I saw it on VH1's One Hit Wonders once. My excuse... I wasn't even thought of yet in the 80s.

[bottlerocket]

TAAAAAAAAAAAAKE
OOOOOOOOOOOON
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

TAKE
ON
ME

TAAAAAAAAAAAAKE
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
OOOOOOOOOOOON

TAKE
ON
ME

Yeah boi.

[The Sludge]

Can anyone help me on figuring out who this is. It's a cover of Time After Time, but I know it's not New Found Glory like the tag line.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/eepmqa

[The Jungler]

Well, it's pretty crappy quality because it's on Flyswatter but I like it. I can upload it for you if you want.yeah, that'd be cool

[cobert]

TAAAAAAAAAAAAKE
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
OOOOOOOOOOOON

TAKE
ON
ME

Yeah boi.


IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILL
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
GOOOOOOOOOOOONE

[Jessizzle]

okay B or Gavin send mme the song now.

[bottlerocket]

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILL
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
GOOOOOOOOOOOONE

IN A DAY OR
TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

*insert amazing synth solo*

[Virus278]

yeah, that'd be cool

Here ya go: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RFDUZPE9

[bottlerocket]

I sent Jess the song.

Relax, everyone, she HAS heard it before and she just forgot...so...we don't have to make fun of her anymore.

*phew*

[hey, you're not cory!]

My old bands cover of "Stop the World" was good.

But in all seriousness I also really like the Bob Dylan cover by Straylight Run.

And all of the live covers that Jack's Mannequin does are awesome. "Changes" by David Bowie and "American Girl" by Tom Petty being my favorites.

[Gnarmageddon]

NOFX - All of Me
Throwdown - Baby Got Back

[The Sludge]

Less Than Jake's "Summer Nights" (Grease)
NOFX - "Go Your Own Way" (Fleetwood Mac)
Yellowcard - "Everywhere" (Michelle Branch)

[cobert]

Throwdown - Baby Got Back

Seriously one of the worst things ever.

EDIT:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o33r2T6DHMA

lolololol

[JohnXDoe]

you know the lemonheads aren't exactly PP but they are pop abd kinda punk so i like their cover of S&G's Mrs. Robinson

[Woundeffigy]

I love most covers
Alkaline Trio- Lucretia My Reflection
Alkaline Trio- Halloween
AFI- My Michelle
AFI- Halloween
The Living End- Tainted Love

there all pretty good.

[bottlerocket]

Not to sound like a presumptious jerk but I can totally imagine AFI absolutely butchering My Michelle.

I'll have to check it out sometime, though.

[The Sludge]

My Michelle's cover was actually pretty decent. Kind of kept to the origional quite a bit.

[bottlerocket]

I picture AFI trying to make it "East Bay Hardcore" and Davey just butchering the French vocals...BUT I AM ASSUMING AND HAVEN'T HEARD THE SONG SO I SHOULD STFU AND LISTEN TO IT.

There, I told myself before anyone else could.

[Dead Star]

to be honest AFI's cover of My Michelle isn't too bad.

I like the song though.

[Sound Boy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC11BSM_CUo

the only "baby got back" cover i like.

[The Sludge]

Not sure if sending links is legal on here, but here's the My Michelle cover though in WMA format.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/g8mjtr

[Hi My Name Is Mark]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC11BSM_CUo

the only "baby got back" cover i like.

The Richard Cheese version is a lot better.

[bottlerocket]

Not sure if sending links is legal on here, but here's the My Michelle cover though in WMA format.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/g8mjtr

I listened.

Butchered. Completely butchered.