Songs That Are So Inimitable That Nobody Is Foolish Enough To Cover Them

[curiousoranges]

Bohemian Rhapsody was also covered by Rolf Harris, who released it as a single.

[Brundle-Fly]

This is like a musical Googlewhack game. It's hard to find an example.

Cool For Cats by Squeeze?

[jobotic]

Flipper's Sex Bomb but Terminal Cheesecake Tom Jones did a cracking version.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

desperately searching every song that gets mentioned in the hope i can be the first one to pedantically point out that someone covered it

even though that's not really the point

[imitationleather]

Oh, I dunno... How about Rape by Peter Wyngarde?

Would actually like to hear someone attempt to cover it, ngl.

[Dr Rock]

desperately searching every song that gets mentioned in the hope i can be the first one to pedantically point out that someone covered it

even though that's not really the point

Try this ultrabanger

I haven't checked, so maybe some fool has.

[Brundle-Fly]

Oh, I dunno... How about Rape by Peter Wyngarde?

Would actually like to hear someone attempt to cover it, ngl.

I heard the brass riff sampled on a Big Beat track about twenty five years ago if that counts?

[dontpaintyourteeth]

Try this ultrabanger

I haven't checked, so maybe some fool has.

that whole album fuckin rules and I haven't heard it in ages

I'm going to listen to it NOW.

[dazed_and_bemused]

Justin Hawkins doing This Town Isn't Big Enough For the Both of Us

You know what? I think he did OK on what should on paper be a completely impossible task. The Maels seem to be having fun in the video at least.

[Dr Rock]

One of my exes was a locust abortion technician.

And sometimes she'd dress up as a clown and hold a little dog on her hand to make the other clowns laugh.

[CrackerFactory]

Flipper's Sex Bomb but Terminal Cheesecake Tom Jones did a cracking version.

[DrGreggles]

I was gonna say Bohemian Rhapsody - why would you cover another band's most famous song, that is also quite long and unusually structured - but Panic at the Disco apparently did it, the fools.

[lazyhour]

edit: ah fuck those boring Uncut pleasing losers Lambchop did this

Er, excuse me? One of the greatest bands of the last 40 years, thank you very much. I don't usually give a shit if someone slags off a band I love but shitting on Lambchop is just stupidly wrong.

I'm shocked. Shocked!

[Schlippy]

You'd struggle to do any Life Without Buildings song justice with another singer. Went viral on TiKTok with someone lip-syncing, but that doesn't count.

And yeah, shit-talking Lambchop, what the fuck.

[famethrowa]

Parklife?

(I'm not finishing someone's post, I'm asking about the song)

[Dr Rock]

I'd imagine Nina Simone could smash it.

[Brundle-Fly]

Parklife?

(I'm not finishing someone's post, I'm asking about the song)

True. Blur's back catalogue has rarely been covered (apart from Song 2 and Girls & Boys).  Rather like the aforementioned Squeeze, Dexys, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, for some reason.

[Dr Rock]

True. Blur's back catalogue has rarely been covered (apart from Song 2 and Girls & Boys).  Rather like the aforementioned Squeeze, Dexys, Ian Dury & The Blockheads
, for some reason.

Nouvelle Vague dunnit.

[Indomitable Spirit]

Try this ultrabanger

I haven't checked, so maybe some fool has.

Not a cover but a shameless cut and paste job by crap skate punk band Pennywise

[boki]

I heard the brass riff sampled on a Big Beat track about twenty five years ago if that counts?

It was also sampled by Black Box Recorder on their cover of Uptown Top Ranking (the original of which could have been a decent contender for this thread, come to think of it).

[Mr_Simnock]

no such track exists

[PaulTMA]

Try this ultrabanger

I haven't checked, so maybe some fool has.

Daniel Johnston did, possibly because he resembled one at the time

Lambchop's cover of When You Were Mine is smug and useless and belongs on an Uncut free CD

[Jockice]

Ah!

021 Is A Joke. As a far better reviewer than I once wrote.

[gilbertharding]

Somehow feels as if saying 'Nouvelle Vague covered it' doesn't really count in this thread. Like, technically, that's the entire point of Nouvelle Vague - to cover unlikely songs.

Like - I could say that Convoy GB is a song that's so inimitable that etc etc, but then - there's a version of it on one of the Hallmark Top of the Pops albums

[Schlippy]

Doesn't really fit here as loads of people have covered Jawbreaker (almost always terribly), but I've just discovered Jahbreaker and this had me hooting with delight:

It's a one-note joke and all their covers sound exactly the same, but a white boy reggae band doing rasta-themed covers of Schwarzenbach's angsty proto-emo makes me laff like a drain.

[Dr M1nx PhD]

[dex]

Tommy The Cat by Primus

[Minami Minegishi]

I was going to say a couple of Antony and the Johnsons songs because she seems to have a very particular sound and that tone, and the lyrics are unusually personal.

But TIL that loads have covered her songs, and a couple of them have even been used on those Idol shows. Huh.

[Kankurette]

The SAS and the Glam That Goes With It by Earl Brutus

[Mr Banlon]

Cradle in the Bin '96 by Cassandra