JCC If You Were a Band, What Song Would You Cover?

So, I think we all love it when some musical artist we love covers a song by another musical artist we love. Sometimes they just cover the song live and never actually officially record it, which makes it even cooler.

When you think about it, sometimes by singing a song by another artist, an artist can actually reveal something intensely personal. It's a nod to an artist that was influential or to a powerful emotion that shaped the artist. Sometimes you think it's probably not a "favorite" song, but just the one that feels right to cover. Sometimes, the cover artist totally makes the song their own, completely owns the emotion and the resonance of the song. Sometimes not, but why think about that.

So, if you were a hugely famous musical artist, what song would you cover as a surprise in your live set list? Name more than one if you like.

For me, the one that comes most obviously to mind for some reason is this one:

 

Probably something by Foetus.

 

lolol

 

I'll love to cover any song by Bee Gees. It'll be a honor!

 

Ticket to Ride.

 

I Will by the Beatles. In a slow, bluesy style.

 

If I actually had a voice worth a damn for singing, and knew how to play instruments, I'd go with either Ice Cube's 'It Was a Good Day' or 'Kashmir' by Zepplin.

 

Knockin' On Heaven's Door. I hope no one else has covered it before!

 

It would be a symphonic-metal cover of Dancing Queen by ABBA.

 

A Polka version of Strawberry Fields Forever

 

DT421, you are dead.

 

I've given it some more thought, Mar. I'm thinking more along the lines of having a Reggae feel through the first part and then turning it into a raging polka at the same spot that George Martin spliced John's two favorite versions together. Talk about a mind ****er.

 

i always disliked when artists just played the cover exactly like the original. you have to change it up somehow, and i've always taken the approach re-imagining and rewriting the cover into something drastically different

 

This is like saying you can't express yourself without creating a new language.

 

i don't know, maybe this one. my heart is feeling fairly trampled.

 

Thick as a Brick (side 1)

 

I particularly love the Ice Cube number. That would be great.

I'm also really feeling this one today:



Lotta water under the bridge. Lotta other stuff too.

God, how true. How. True.

 

It would be a Baroque Pop cover of Drowning Pool's Bodies.