Perfect Cover Songs for Stevie - Page 3

Jyqm · #31 10-19-2005, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by iamovercome

If I ever heard stevie cover "Summertime" i do believe i would crap my pants. it would be amazing!

How about just a full-on Fleetwood Mac Porgy and Bess album? What could Lindsey do with some of those songs...

While I don't think Stevie could do it as well as Ted Leo did it, how about "Since U Been Gone?"

Stevie could offer an interesting take on a Shins song, say, something like "Gone For Good."

How about a duet with Jack White on Bacharach/David's "I Don't Know What To Do With Myself?"

If she didn't shine it up too much, she could also give a nice version of a Tom Waits ballad, like "House Where Nobody Lives" or "Alice."

strandinthewind · #32 10-19-2005, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

How about just a full-on Fleetwood Mac Porgy and Bess album? What could Lindsey do with some of those songs...

While I don't think Stevie could do it as well as Ted Leo did it, how about "Since U Been Gone?"

Stevie could offer an interesting take on a Shins song, say, something like "Gone For Good."

How about a duet with Jack White on Bacharach/David's "I Don't Know What To Do With Myself?"

If she didn't shine it up too much, she could also give a nice version of a Tom Waits ballad, like "House Where Nobody Lives" or "Alice."

"Bess - You is My Woman" think of me when you don't come

dissention · #33 10-19-2005, 11:02 AM

For the millionth time, Blondie's "Night Wind Sent". It just screams early Stevie without all the fairy witch schtick.

Your music by the night wind sent
Awakes my quiet instrument
In the silence of your steps
I can see into the depths
Messenger of sympathies
My heart beats loud in ecstasy
When your shadow falls on me
A silhouette reality
And I chase every night after you
And I chase after you

Of all your loaded mysteries
The color of your sympathies
My words cannot express your awful loveliness
So come with me through smoke and mirrors
We'll bring our differences nearer
We'll float upon an inland sea
Embody visions of a dream
And I chase every night after you

I got a chill and the night wind sent me a chill
And the night wind sent me a chill

You wander through my sleeping mind
Reading thoughts I've left behind
I always know when you've been there
Tangles of perfume fill my hair

Your music by the night wind sent
Awakes my quiet instrument
In the silence of your steps
I can see into the depths

cliffdweller · #34 10-19-2005, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by dissention

For the millionth time, Blondie's "Night Wind Sent". It just screams early Stevie without all the fairy witch schtick.

Your music by the night wind sent
Awakes my quiet instrument
In the silence of your steps
I can see into the depths
Messenger of sympathies
My heart beats loud in ecstasy
When your shadow falls on me
A silhouette reality
And I chase every night after you
And I chase after you

Of all your loaded mysteries
The color of your sympathies
My words cannot express your awful loveliness
So come with me through smoke and mirrors
We'll bring our differences nearer
We'll float upon an inland sea
Embody visions of a dream
And I chase every night after you

I got a chill and the night wind sent me a chill
And the night wind sent me a chill

You wander through my sleeping mind
Reading thoughts I've left behind
I always know when you've been there
Tangles of perfume fill my hair

Your music by the night wind sent
Awakes my quiet instrument
In the silence of your steps
I can see into the depths

You just HAD to get a Blondie reference in there didn't ya?

dissention · #35 10-19-2005, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by cliffdweller

You just HAD to get a Blondie reference in there didn't ya?

Naturally, but I've been saying for ages that particular song is perfect for her to cover. She really can't hit the high notes or even attempt to sing it in the original key, so maybe she could do it a la "Goodbye Baby." I think it would kick.

ELIUD · #36 10-19-2005, 01:34 PM

The song I would want her to do first would be Patti Smith's Dancing Barefoot. I think she's so perfect for it that I've always imagined I would beg her to do it if I ever had the opportunity to meet her. I don't have it with me to link to right now but I do have my other suggestion:

Hey Pretty by Poe. I think she almost sounds like Stevie in this song. It's just very sexy and I think she could sing it in her current range. Here's the lyrics:
Well it's 3 a.m. I'm out here riding again
Through the wicked winding streets of my world
I make a wrong turn brake it now I'm too far gone
I got a siren on my tail and that ain't
The fine I'm looking for
I see a stairway so I follow it down
Into the belly of a whale
Where my secrets echo all around
You know me now but to do better than that
You've got to follow me
Boy I'm tryin' to show you where I'm at
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna take a ride with me?
Through my world
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna kick and slide
Through my world?
NOW l I've got a mind full of wicked designs
I've got a non-stop hole in my head--imagination
I'm in a building that has two thousand floors
and when they all fall down
I think you know it's you they're fallin' for
I can't forget I am a sole architect
I built the shadows here
I built the GROWLIN' voice I fear
You add it up but to do better than that
You've got to follow me
Boy I'm tryin' to show you where I'm at
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna take a ride with me?
Through my world
Hey pretty
Don't you wanna kick and slide
Through my world?
Hey pretty
My pretty baby
Rockin' through my world
(my world)
Hey pretty
(HEY PRETTY)
my pretty baby
Rockin' through my world
(my world)
Hey now
Can't you feel me longing?
(Do you get the gist of this song now?)
Hey now
Can't you feel me?
Feel me
Hey pretty...{Hey pretty}
{My pretty baby}
Hey pretty baby
DON'T YOU wanna take a ride with me?
DON'T YOU WANNA TAKE A RIDE WITH ME?
(my baby)
DON'T YOU WANNA TAKE A RIDE WITH ME?
(my baby)
MY PRETTY BABY
DON'T YOU WANNA...
...ROCKIN' THROUGH MY WORLD
DON'T YOU WANNA TAKE A RIDE WITH ME?
(my baby)
DON'T YOU WANNA...
DON'T YOU WANNA TAKE A RIDE WITH ME?
Do you get the gist of this song now?
Do you get the gist of this song now?

Richard B · #37 10-19-2005, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by kirst1126

Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds"

Hi Kirsten! I agree with you 100% on this song. Absolutley.

And on another note...I think she should cover Heart's 'These Dreams.' It was originally offered to Stevie before Heart anyway.

And...

It would be fun to hear her cover 'Red, Red Wine' by UB40 and 'Weather With You' by Crowded House.

UndoingTheLaces · #38 10-19-2005, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I tried to get into them, but never really could, though I play Bloodletting every now and then. I hear they were killer live.

You know, I've talked before about my views on Stevie involuntarily kicking off the Goth movement, but I think she would do an excellent job of "Bloodletting". I also think she would sound great doing "I Touch Myself" but don't think she would ever do it.

I think it would be really funny for her to do a song with a witchy theme, because of all the rumors of her being a witch, like "Spellbound" by Souxsie and the Banshees or I Put A Spell On you.

SandyMac · #39 10-19-2005, 04:40 PM

Aretha's R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Freeway of Love (Pink Cadillac)
Dream Weaver
You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman
That Don't Impress Me Much
Circle in the Sand by Belinda Carlisle
Cruel Summer
Venus
I Know There's Something's Going On by Frida (of ABBA)
I Will Survive
Heart Attack by Oliva Newton John
Baracuda

These boots are made for walking

Edit:
Harden My Heart by QuarterFlash
(Geez, I am showing my age here)

SandyMac · #40 10-19-2005, 04:53 PM

oooh, just thought of this one:
Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

Jyqm · #41 10-19-2005, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by SandyMac

Harden My Heart by QuarterFlash
(Geez, I am showing my age here)

Haha, age nothing, "Harden My Heart" is great, and Stevie could do a knock-out job of it.

lagringader&r · #42 10-19-2005, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by SapphireSister

"I Touch Myself"

I love myself
I want you to love me
When I'm feelin' down
I want you above me
I search myself
I want you to find me
I forget myself
I want you to remind me

I don't want anybody else
When I think about you
I touch myself
I don't want anybody else
Oh no, oh no, oh no

You're the one who makes me happy honey
You're the sun who makes me shine
When you're around I'm always laughing
I want to make you mine

I close my eyes
And see you before me
Think I would die
If you were to ignore me
A fool could see
Just how much I adore you
I get down on my knees
I'd do anything for you

Bitch! I just said something about this song in another thread and this was my answer to this one. You stole it. Gawd, she would be hawt on this one tho!

SandyMac · #43 10-19-2005, 05:56 PM

Magic from Oliva Newton John

Richard B · #44 10-19-2005, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by SandyMac

Magic from Oliva Newton John

I thought that too. I think it's way too hard of a song for Stevie to sing.

Btw, I feel someone is a Olivia fan. Me loves her. Funny too, cause I'm listening to my ipod right now and guess what's playing as I type this?? Make A Move On Me.

No snickering from any of you.

SapphireSister · #45 10-19-2005, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by lagringader&r

Bitch! I just said something about this song in another thread and this was my answer to this one. You stole it. Gawd, she would be hawt on this one tho!

I mentioned it in another thread as well. It's a great idea. Don't worry, she'd never do it anyway but we can dream right?