Punk/Ska Covers

Something i've always enjoyed about Punk/Ska is the covers that seem to come out. So what's your favourites?

A couple of mine
"Talkin' About Revolution" (Tracey Chapman)- Niteblind
"Crazy" (Seal) - Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
"In The Ghetto" (Elvis) - some german punk band, I've forgotten the name of.
"Believe" (Cher Cover) - Duncan's Divas
"Rockafella Skank" (Fat Boy Slim) - Snuff
"Your Love" (The outfield) - Less Than Jake
"I Melt With You" (erm, I forget) - Good Riddance
"S.O.S." (ABBA) - Mad Caddies i think.
"99 Red Balloons" (Nena) - Goldfinger

Punk/Ska covers just bring back good memories of listening to them in the common room with my buddy nearly 10 years ago.

EDIT:
I forgot about Snuff's cover of "Sounds of the underground" (Girls Aloud) and Lars Frederikson & the Bastard's cover of "To Have, Have Not" (Billy Bragg)

I love the 99 Red Balloons cover! There's also an Ultimate Showdown ska cover floating round the internets somewhere. And a Scooby Doo one

Oh god yes The Ultimate Showdown Ska cover was epic when i first found it! I remember having Ska covers of the Batman theme, Pink Panther and Tetris theme.... all very funky.

You've got your whole album of 'Greased' by Less Than Jake don't forget, featuring the likes of Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee and We Go Together.

I've seen Grown At Home/Advantage do a cover of Boys Are Back in town a few times too.

Funny thing about the Greased album is that I heard "Sandra Dee" and didn't realise it was a cover.... I was never a big fan of musicals.

EDIT: I've also remembered "Never Gonna Give You Up" (Rick Astley) by Peter & The Test Tube Babies, excellent stuff.

skaranoid (paranoid) by the italian band the shandon
wanabe (spice girls) de heideroosjes
great balls of fire by dead pets
sound of silence by undeclinable ambuscade
anything by me first

Stand Out Riot and ME doing the Final Countdown definitely wins.

i've always had a soft spot for the rancid cover of if the kids are united.

That wins everything ever.

I actually have a playlist on iTunes. I was going to turn it into a 2 CD album. One CD would have the covers, the other would have the originals in the same track order. I tried not to fill it with Gimme Gimme songs, that was hard.

Does anyone know who did the punk cover to Ghostbusters? My mate and I have spent years trying to find out.

According to Wikipedia its by "Attaboy Skip"


EDIT: I'm fed up with the fiddly BBcode. link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_(song)

Yeah I've heard that one, it's good. I think Five Iron Frenzy do a cover of an abba song, can't remember which one though.

Steff wrote:Yeah I've heard that one, it's good. I think Five Iron Frenzy do a cover of an abba song, can't remember which one though.

It's Mamma Mia, it's awesome but I don't think they ever released it as anything other than a B-side. I can't find a good quality recording of it : ( They do 'it's not unusual' as well, which is pretty cool.

I'm a real sucker for ska cover songs though, just love 'em. I'm really looking forward to Streetlight Manifesto's '99 songs of the revolution' (as long as they actually use their horns, unlike that cover of Linoleum they do - a short solo at the end doesn't count as using horns IMO). My favourites would probably be the Final Countdown cover by Furillo and YMCA by The Skunks.

I force my band to do a few, you can hear our ska versions of The Turtles' 'Happy Together' and Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' on our myspace (www.myspace.com/jermzska).

That's the one!
My iPod is in my car and I could't remember. Well done you.

I don't think I've heard a ska cover and thought 'No, actually, the original was better than that.'
ever.

Oh, speaking of Five Iron covers, on 'Proof that the youth are revolting' they open with a very brief cover of Final Countdown which leads into 'one girl army' - it's freaking awesome. Then there's the awesome out-take of that at the end of the album where half the band starts playing that as the other half of the band starts playing 'Handbook for the sellout'. I think it's hilarious

teh boom- Marching Round in Circles
teh boom- sound system
Damn skippy i like to move it
and even though i only saw them once this song was epic so its going on my list
big jessie- the time warp

oh and covers id like to see
random hand-War (what is it good for)

School Boy Error used to do can't touch this.

I really like voodoo glowskulls - here comes the sun.

the arrogant sons of bitches have an album of a live show where they just do radiohead songs, thats pretty cool, I like Wizo - All that she wants aswel!

a reggae band i played with did an awesome cover of creep. They were called the fuzz, i tried to find out about whether they got any where later but there are a million bands called the fuzz and i couldn't find anything about them on the intarwebs on my komputar

was it any of these?
they all seem to be blocked from work but the description seems sound

that singer is a small white girl, not the black giant of a man that was the singer for the fuzz that i mean.

I like Come on Eileen by Save Ferris and pretty much all of That Should Cover It by [spunge].

I used to think spunge's cover of Santeria was better than the original but then I got off the shit and cleaned myself up.

ahhh nm then, i had a feeling my google foo was on form and it pissed me off i couldnt check

I also recently discovered Randal Grave's "Like To Do Girlie Stuff Sometimes" album which is full of covers of female band's songs. Kinda like Duncan Redmond's (of Snuff and Billy No Mates fame) Duncan's Divas band.

The Amazing Fletch wrote:I like Come on Eileen by Save Ferris and pretty much all of That Should Cover It by [spunge].

I somehow never heard Come on Eileen until after hearing Save Ferris' version. That was amusing when first hearing the original.

scottus86 wrote:I really like voodoo glowskulls - here comes the sun.

Haha, I just gave this a listen, that's hilarious. Here comes the sun is like my girlfriend's favourite song, this will amuse her greatly

What about 'why can't we be friends' by Smash Mouth? Love that in spite of the fact that the whole song is like 5 words.

Ha! I know i'd be stealing the idea from The Simpsons but if I was ever in a competitive sport, "Why Can't We Be friends" by SmashMouth would be my theme song.