I frequently find that there are some songs out there that are just
begging to be covered in a different style by another artist, and I find myself getting frustrated that it hasn't happened yet. Take David McWilliams' "Days of Pearly Spencer", for instance:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4VDS8uArR0AThis was covered by Marc Almond, but for my money it should have had a huff-and-bluster rock version done by the Manic Street Preachers. In terms of the angst-ridden, wordy homeless-person-used-as-possible-metaphor-for-the-end-of-the-human-race lyrics, it hits the spot, and there's something about the melody as well that's very melancholy in a chest-beating way.
Does anyone else have any requests that are never likely to be fulfilled?