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PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:39 pm    Post subject: Great x-over covers bands Reply with quote
Ok silly thread time...

Having seen the name Joy Orbison around, I thought wouldn't that be a great name for a covers album - Joy Division songs but performed by, or in the style of, Roy Orbison.

So first up...

Hank Sidebottom. Old Hank Williams country songs perfomed by a man with a Manc accent sporting a papier mache head...
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Simon Le Bon Jovi.

The 80s nonce tackles the hits of those 80s nonces.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
AB/CD

Martin Fry and co. perform Back In Black at a ATP reunion show.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mr Blobby Williams

After his solo comeback fails spectacularly, Robbie decides the way to a sure fire hit is to cover this Christmas classic.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Peter, Paul & Mary Chain
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm going to form a Joy Orbison tribute act called Roy Division.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
roy division. Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Barry Glitter. The Walrus of Love's back catalogue performed by a paedophile.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Katy Ferry - girlie pop meets man with floppy fringe whinging soft rock.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oz Mutantes - Mad old rock bifter plays cool Brazilian psych

Chili Fury - Old rock n roll heartthrob plays annoying funk rock while wearing a sock on his cock
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Actually a couple of the phone in games I had on my radio show would work here.

Ringo Stars In Their Eyes - The Beatles' goon does his best impressions of TV talent contest winners.

Alvin Stardust & The Spiders From Mars - self-explanatory
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
KevW wrote:
Alvin Stardust & The Spiders From Mars - self-explanatory


Very good! What about:

Herman Dune’s Hermits - our lo-fi chums singing about bus stops, the lack of milk that morning and the fact that they are Hen-er-ry the Eighth, they are.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chase & Status Quo - Parfitt and Rossi will stop at nothing to hit the charts again.


Iggy Pop Will Eat Itself - they couldn't get any gigs running through their own back catalogue so formed a Stooges covers band instead.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cosmic Rough Ryders - Poptone misfits go baggy while twisting melons

T-T Arnold - 60s soul icon PP Arnold delivers miserable Bragg-baiting lefty ditties to one man and his dog in Deptford.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A few years ago at a festival I was working at we held a pun based music competition similar to this topic. You had to mix band names with countries. This competition was the fantastically named 'Argentina Turner Prize'.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Eminem People - erm...

Gilbert Sunn O)))'Sullivan - Cllllllllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Skullflowered Up - erm again...
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SPT wrote:


Gilbert Sunn O)))'Sullivan - Cllllllllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Skullflowered Up - erm again...


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Except their name is pronounced 'Sun'. Anyway...

The Neu! Seekers - They'd like to teach the world about the driving force of the motorik beat.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nina Ramones

Randy Newsom: 3 minute comedy-pop songs performed on a harp.

Franz Sinatra: Las Vegas crooner and constructivist art obsessive.
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The Tom Jones Revue - Full on rock n roll blues performed by octagenarian with permed hair and chest wig.

Manic Beat Preachers - Eyeliner sporting Welsh rock bores perform jaunty 2 Tone ska in huge stadiums.
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