i may have asked this before (but i'm old and the memory goes so bear with me)

[dari]

my younger brother was never into bruce and i finally convinced him to go to a show. his first one just happened to be when he was at univ. of penn on dec 9 1980. well i think most of you would know how that show went! so after that, needless to say he was hooked. then he moved to china and got out of listening to western music. he came back to live in america within the last few years and has finally asked me to get him a copy of the cover album of the nebraska (his favorite) songs. even though i made a copy of this i was never that interested because with a couple of exceptions i was not into the people who recorded the songs. so i began thinking that i would have loved to have heard some of my favorite artists do bruce songs. i can hear van morrison doing new york city serenade TOTAL justice (though i can't imagine anyone doing it as well as bruce). so if you could do the bruce cover album of your dreams what cuts do you want on it and who do you want singing those songs?


dari

[Bustedsister]

JOhnny Cash, I'm on Fire
Eddie Vedder, Downbound Train
The Beatles, Sherry Darlin

(Off the top of my head)

[Muddyemms]

Gary U.S. Bonds doing a killer "Club Soul City" and "This Little Girl" . . .

[Steve Kurtz]

SIDE 1

1. STATE TROOPER...Elvis Presley (with his original band, including Scotty Moore and the bass player and drummer (Fontana?) whose names escape me.

2. HUMAN TOUCH...Roxy Music

3. BORN IN THE USA...AC/DC

4. 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (Sandy)...Dire Straits

5. JACKSON CAGE...Dave Alvin and The Guilty Men

6. THE E STREET SHUFFLE...James Brown and Maceo Parker

7. BORN TO RUN...Artisan (a wonderful British accapella trio)

SIDE 2

1. CADILLAC RANCH...George Thorogood and The Destroyers

2. RAMROD...Keith Richards and The X-Pensive Winos

3. NYC SERENADE...Joe Henry

4. ROSALITA...Los Lobos

5. FACTORY...Emmylou Harris

6. JUNGLELAND...The Who

I mean, just imagine.....

[Edited by Steve Kurtz on May 9th, 2001 at 09:56 AM]

[Zephyrs 23]

the obvious one, for my money, Rolling Stones "Crush on You"

[69 Chevy]

Definitely James Brown doin' "...Shuffle"
Great choice, Steve!

[BronxDarren]

dari-this is so weird, yesterday i was singing along with tougher than the rest, doing my best willie nelson, thinking what a great cover that would be and was gonna post a thread just...like...this one!
so anyway, here's Vol I of X

Guns 'n' Roses( Mark 1)-Badlands
The Ramones-Hungry Heart
Duran Duran-Prove It All Night
Willie Nelson-Tougher Than The Rest
Cyndi Lauper-Growin Up
Deep Purple(Mark II)-The Wind and The Rain

Led Zep-Born to Run
Bad Brains-Candy's Room
Fishbone-Kitty's Back
Bob Marley-Cover Me
Nick Cave-State Trooper
P-Funk-Thundercrack

[Steve Kurtz]

Thank you 69 Chevy...I will be as kind and say to Bronx D...Cover Me as interpreted by Bob Marley...yeah mon! That I can hear in my head as he play...that reggae-mon who we miss to this day...wonderful choice! And the LIVE AT THE RAINBOW video is still available thru Amazon for like, fourteen bucks. Do thyself the favor...you can't take your eyes off him. And The Wailers...yeah, they wail allright!

[Hummer]

OK, I'm still pondering this one... this is tough... but I just couldn't fail to comment on Steve's choices...

Cadillac Ranch as done by Lonesome George and his Destroyers!! OOOOOOOOOOOO!! I could go for some of that...

[Steve Kurtz]

I'd like to add a few songs to my original album...maybe make this side 3...

PROVE IT ALL NIGHT...Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

ATLANTIC CITY...Lou Reed

THE PRICE YOU PAY...Bob Dylan

PARADISE BY THE "C"...Jr. Walker and The All-Stars

MY HOMETOWN...James McMurtry

STOLEN CAR...Patty Griffin

LIGHT OF DAY*...Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers

* already released...can't pass this one up...they do such a great job of it...it's on that ONE STEP UP, TWO STEPS BACK tribute album...

[BronxDarren]

steve-i loved your first two sides and most of side 3, but that version of light of day is putrid a bad version of a bad song!!
IMHO, of course.
If you did it then I am too...

Fiona Apple-The Fever
Bryan Adams-Glory Days
The Cars-Cynthia
Motley Crue-Youngstown
Dylan-Blinded by the Light
Hootie-Human Touch
U2-Back in Your arms

[KirkW]

Youngstown- Big Country
Jungleland- The Alarm (but only if they sing it in Welsh)
Something in the Night- Brittany Spears (because it would be just too funny for words)

[Steve Kurtz]

OK, so this might sound like it's becoming a lovefest between me and Bronx D, but DAMN!...U2 and BACK IN YOUR ARMS...I can definitely hear Bono wrapping himself around that one...YOWZAH!...and we agree to disagree on LIGHT OF DAY...I've gotten as sick of it as you, but I still think Joe G and The HR's do a great job on it...but it could be deleted if push came to shove...HEY, QUIT PUSHIN'!!!...;)

[teenage werewolf]

Great thread Big Sis,

NYCS- Buddy Guy w/ John Coltrane and Miles Davis
Youngstown- Johnny Cash
Incident- Curtis Mayfield
Johnny Bye Bye- Elvis
Sherry Darlin- The Kinks
Saint in the City- Bob Dylan
Lost in the Flood- Pearl Jam
Badlands- John Mellencamp
Ghost of Tom Joad- Richie Havens
Nebraska- Neil Young
Murder Inc.- Kiss
Downbound Train- U2

++ Jungleland should never be covered!

Must also agree w/ BD, U2 on Back in Your Arms!

TW

[Steve Kurtz]

Yo Werewolf...if Wilson Pickett can cover HEY JUDE, then The Who and The Alarm can cover JUNGLELAND...we're talkin' respect here, not irreverence..:) BTW, I like your choice of Neil Young for NEBRASKA...

[young again]

John Lennon - Land of Hope and Dreams.

[Magic Rat]

this is just too tough. Right now I just can't picture anyone but Bruce doing his songs. maybe I've been working too hard!
And to reiterate NO covering Jungleland
But I can picture Bruce covering Baba O'Rielly.
And now I have one-Louie Armstrong doing E Street

[Edited by Magic Rat on May 9th, 2001 at 06:23 PM]

[dari]

i am so impressed. you all came up with such great answers and things i never would have thought of. i love the bob marley (one of my favorite artists of all time) doing cover me. i have never liked that song that much but i can absolutely see it as a reggae song done by him!
and paradise by the c as done by junior walker is perfect as is u2 doing back in your arms. AND I LOVE JOHN LENNON DOING LOHAD!!!!!!!

except now i have to re-think this and come up with some better answers. yours are all too good...


dari

[Hidinonabackstreets]

Shawn Colvin.

'Stolen Car.'


In a big fat lonly room.

All by herself.


On just an accoustic guitar.

It would be undeniably brillliant.

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"I Don't Know Why" & 'Monopoly' would convince anyone of these songs, & that Shawn can and should do a Bruce tune or two.

(Both from her Grammmy award winning record 'Fat City').
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{Ya can't sing '''' if ya ain't lived ''''.}

[Jimmy Conway 75]

<<<so if you could do the bruce cover album of your dreams what cuts do you want on it and who do you want singing those songs?>>>

I love these questions. I don't have a full album, but here are a couple of songs...

Tom Waits, Lost in the Flood
Eddie Vedder, Walk Like a Man
Pearl Jam, Badlands
Public Enemy, Murder Inc.
Bono, No Surrender (but I love the Back in Your Arms suggestions :))
Al Green and Jill Scott, My City of Ruins

Would also have been cool to see The Ramones do Hungry Heart.

Bobby P.
Wish-list, CA

[mrsports]

i'm sure i'll think of others later, but for now
Murder Incorportated, Alice Cooper
Johnny 99, Harry Chapin
Reason to Believe, Jim Croce
I think Bob Seeger should be on their somewhere--just haven't found the song for him.

[double-click]

I will post a few names here that most of you won't even know but if you do know these artists maybe you will understand.

Gary Allen - Fade Away
Toby Keith - Walk Like A Man
Patty Loveless - Janey Don't You Loose Heart (changing the name of coarse)

Lets leave it at that for now...

[dari]

some of these may sound weird but here goes...

jimi hendrix.....backstreets
allman brothers....kitty's back
stevie ray vaughn...prove it all night
van morrison...nyc serenade
bob marley...sherry darling (reggae version of course)
bob seger...i'm a rocker
laura nyro backed by labelle...incident on 57th street
aretha franklin...slow version of e street shuffle
janis joplin....drive all night
beatles with john lennon on lead and harp..promised land
beatles with paul on lead...10th avenue freezeout
joni mitchell....no surrender(acoustic)
bob dylan... streets of fire
johnny winter...you can look but you better not touch
marvin gaye....if i should fall behind
ray charles....land of hopes and dreams