Last night I had a dream that I was trapped in a hotel that was subsidizing its rates with advertising in the lobby. Among the commercials was an extended spot for the Insane Clown Posse in which they a) announced that they were recruiting for their own personal police force and b) covered, quite faithfully and with great gusto, the Arcade Fire’s “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out).” This dream—which, I should add, was not the result of a Faygo-and-Molson pre-bedtime cocktail—made me wonder if any of you out there have had similar moments in which cover versions that are odd even for this genre-crossing moment in pop music have sprung from your subconscious. To get your mind rolling, I’ve placed a very special cover after the jump!
Look, it’s ICP covering Sly Fox’s “Let’s Go All The Way”!
Insane Clown Posse - Let’s Go All The Way [YouTube; HT The Sandbox]
Definitely not “crazy,” but I’ve had repeated, extended fantasies about watching Radiohead perform Coldplay’s “Clocks” live.
Not a crazy cover, but there was that one time a few months ago when I dreamt that my mom was talking about the groundbreaking album “Third Eye Blind and Rising.”
an extended spot for the Insane Clown Posse in which they a) announced that they were recruiting for their own personal police force
Why is this not real.
That’s the only ICP video I’ve ever seen. Or song I’ve ever heard. This was some years ago, we were watching some video channel or another and it came on. I had to keep asking my wife “Is this some kind of joke? Is this a novelty band or something?”
I still have those questions…
ooh, forgot to nominate a cover: David Bowie covering Veruca Salt’s “With David Bowie”.
My sister and I used to speculate what it would be like if Judy Collins (our parents are big ’60s folk fans) were to cover Dre’s “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang.” We even do an imagined impression of it.
Perhaps not so out there, but U2 and Metallica should do covers of each other’s “One” at the Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame show at MSG. I think Metallica could probably do a good version of U2’s “One” but, on the other hand, not sure The Edge would be up for doing those tap solos in the Metallica song.
Kristen Wiig-as-Amy Grant covering “Oops Oh My.”
Speaking of Arcade Fire, I always thought they could do real orchestral justice to Joe Jackson’s “It’s Different For Girls.” Can you imagine it with massive strings and swelling vocals? Amazing.
I have a very funny feeling that in about three or four years Britney Spears is going to call it a day on this pop music business, and I’ve dreamed a few times that she announced her retirement and kind of thought halfway through the day it might be true. I think a cover a gigantic, synth-laden, booming version of OMD’s “Souvenir” would make a great swan song for the occasion.
And of course Keisha Sugababe should do a version of “Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control)” and rush-release it be a Christmas number 1. “I’m drivin’ fast, I feel so fine, I’ve got Jade singing ‘Freak Like Me’ and I know every line.” Yes, yes, this will do (said maniacally while do the Mr. Burns fingers).
On second thought, can I get a Lindsay Lohan comeback cover of Vampire Weekend’s “The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance” while I’m here?
This is off topic, but I had a dream once that I was reading an extended New Yorker cartoon about Broken Social Scene. I woke up thinking, “Jesus, I am WHITE.”
A long time ago, I wanted Primus to cover Charlie Daniels’ “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” but now you’d have to bolt me down to listen to Primus. Still, I think it was a missed opportunity that it never happened.
In grad school, my friends and I used to do impressions of what “Shiny Happy People” would sound like if sung by Ethel Merman. (Answer: better than the original.) There was a brief Merman-version of “Love Will Tear Us Apart Again” phase, but “Shiny Happy People” was the one that stuck.
Happy peo-PUHHHHL!
brasstax - Uh… not a missed opportunity at all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FRtkek-Et4
@joshservo: Best laugh I’ve had all day. Thanks.
When Kurt Cobain died, a friend said to me, “Now I’ll never get to hear him sing ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart.’”
Also, to drive the girls-who-love-girls wild, I always had a vision of Melissa Ferrick covering the James song “Laid.”
On an extremely long road trip to Florida from Michigan I fell asleep at a rest stop an dreamt that a very static sounding XM station played a cover version of Jay-Z’s “Who you wit” that was amazingly performed by NIN w/ Trent Reznor shouting the chorus through a megaphone. I awoke to a state trooper vehicle lights flashing behind me and the officer asking me to “please step out of the vehicle!” :)