cover challenges - the future? (1 Viewer)

[Villa R]

So kids, is that it? Due to popular lack of demand, there shall be no more cover challenges??? Say it aint so!

 

[Jill Hives]

Lindbergh, baby! lost its talent. I'd like to still do them but I don't think everyone's ears would.

 

[Wilbert]

I'm up for the next one. I haven't had time to do the last couple. Stupid work and band getting in the way but I reckon one last attempt at resurrecting it would be good.

 

[the departed]

the challenges have been too vague.

if we're going to be vague then at least say something like,
hits of the 80s or something.

i suggest: one hit wonders.

 

[Milker]

i've thoroughly enjoyed Les Challenges..too fuckin busy to bake creative for the last three(jesus, 3 months)..still think there's bite in the auld dog yet..don't think it's the fault of vagueness in choices i just think the novelty wore off for some Challengees


if you ask me maybe a little emotional connection might get the bums parping for another challenge..maybe 'The First Song That 'Mattered' To You.

anyway hats off to teenage hairstyles made of bones, hats off to Pissypantsp

 

[plug]

how about covering a song from another current irish band. could be interesting?

 

[pissypants]

the challenges have been too vague.

if we're going to be vague then at least say something like,
hits of the 80s or something.

i suggest: one hit wonders.

Yo g, as the person who failed to get any juices flowing the last time, take the crown. I never got it together last month myself even. So if ye say "one hit wonders" then lets do that.

Fo' real.
Dig it?

 

[Villa R]

I like the one hit wonder idea too.

Theres tons o suggestions on this wikipedia page -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hit_wonder

 

[the departed]

how about covering a song from another current irish band. could be interesting?

I dig this.

not digging the 'first emotional song thing'. much rather have a laugh and do something quick than have to think about doing justice to something.

 

[Gambra]

When will this be running? I may be into trying out for this one.. I like the sounds of both the one hit wonder & the Irish track one.

 

[the departed]

also could do Xmas songs...

 

[Wilbert]

I vote for one-hit wonders.

 

[the departed]

I vote for one-hit wonders.

lets do that first so..

 

[Milker]

fair 'nuff so

 

[Beanstalk]

Been missing out on all of these (bar one), due to lack of time...but the one hit wonder idea sounds good to me.

 

[the departed]

theres lots more and some double up,
but heres a starting point:


Los del Río — "Macarena" (1996)
Soft Cell — "Tainted Love" (1982)
Dexys Midnight Runners – "Come On Eileen" (1982)
Right Said Fred — "I'm Too Sexy" (1992)
Toni Basil — "Mickey" (1982)
Baha Men — "Who Let the Dogs Out?" (2000)
Vanilla Ice — "Ice Ice Baby" (1990)
a-ha — "Take On Me" (1985)
Gerardo — "Rico Suave" (1991)
Nena — "99 Luftballons" (1984)
"Kung Fu Fighting" – Carl Douglas
"99 Red Balloons" – Nena
"Because I Got High" – Afroman
"Sugar, Sugar" – The Archies
"Can You Dig It?" – The Mock Turtles
"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" – Monty Python
"Spirit in the Sky" – Doctor and the Medics (also Norman Greenbaum)
"Who Let the Dogs Out" – Baha Men
"The Safety Dance" – Men Without Hats
"Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please" – Splodgenessabounds
"Groove is in the Heart" – Deee-Lite
"Trouble" – Shampoo
"It's Raining Men" – The Weather Girls
"All By Myself" – Eric Carmen
"Jilted John" – Jilted John
"I’ll Be There For You" – The Rembrandts
"Doctorin’ the Tardis" – The Timelords
"Rock Me Amadeus" – Falco
"Flat Beat" – Mr. Oizo
"Video Killed the Radio Star" – Buggles
"Je t'aime... moi non plus" – Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
"Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of…)" – Lou Bega
"Turning Japanese" – The Vapors
"Mickey" – Toni Basil
"Mouldy Old Dough" – Lieutenant Pigeon
"Pump Up The Volume" – M/A/R/R/S
"Lovin' You" – Minnie Riperton
"Axel F" – Harold Faltermeyer (also well known for the Grammy Award winning Top Gun Anthem)
"Fuck It (I Don’t Want You Back)" – Eamon
"I'm the Urban Spaceman" – The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
"Spaceman" – Babylon Zoo
"My Sharona" – The Knack
"Shaddap You Face" – Joe Dolce Music Theatre
"Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" – Baz Luhrmann
"Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs (Lowry’s Song)" – Brian & Michael
"MacArthur Park" – Richard Harris
"Monster Mash" – Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers
"Rapper’s Delight" – Sugarhill Gang
"Fire" – Crazy World of Arthur Brown
"The One and Only" – Chesney Hawkes
"Louie, Louie" – The Kingsmen
"Since Yesterday" – Strawberry Switchblade
"My Boy Lollipop" – Millie Small
"Money" – Flying Lizards
"Stutter Rap (No Sleep ‘til Bedtime)" – Morris Minor and the Majors
"Just Say No" – Grange Hill Cast
"Woo Hoo" – The 5.6.7.8's
"Japanese Boy" – Aneka
"Save Your Love" – Renee and Renato
"Brimful of Asha" – Cornershop
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
19. Mambo No.5 - Lou Bega
18. Venus - Shocking Blue
17. Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
16. Mickey - Toni Basil
15. I'll Be Gone - Spectrum
14. Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
13. Counting the Beat - The Swingers
12. Slice of Heaven - Dave Dobbyn & The Herbs
11. Rockin' Robin - Bobby Day
10. Pass the Dutchie - Musical Youth
9. Don't Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
8. 99 Luftballoons - Nena
7. Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
6. Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
5. Funkytown - Lipps Inc
4. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
3. Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles
2. Born to Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez
1. My Sharona - The Knack
"Where's Me Jumper" by Sultans of Ping FC
"The Final Countdown" – Europe (1986)
"Teenage Dirtbag" – Wheatus (2000)
"How Bizarre" – OMC (1996)
"Because I Got High" – Afroman (2001)
"Ice Ice Baby" – Vanilla Ice (1990)
"Eye of the Tiger" – Survivor (1982)
"Tubthumping" – Chumbawamba (1997)
"My Sharona" – The Knack (1979)
"Video Killed the Radio Star" – Buggles (1979)
"Who Let The Dogs Out?" – Baha Men (2000)
"I Touch Myself" - Divinyls (1991)
Johann Pachelbel – Canon in D
Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings
attrib. Tomaso Albinoni – Adagio in G minor (this was actually written by Remo Giazotto and contains no Albinoni material)
Jean-Joseph Mouret – Rondeau from Symphonies and Fanfares for the King's Supper (theme to Masterpiece, formerly Masterpiece Theatre)
Luigi Boccherini – minuet from String Quintet in E
Jeremiah Clarke – "Trumpet Voluntary"
Jules Massenet – Meditation from his opera "Thais"
Pietro Mascagni – "Cavalleria rusticana"
Léo Delibes – "The Flower Duet"
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – "Caucasian Sketches"
Amilcare Ponchielli – "Dance of the Hours" from the opera "La Gioconda"
Charles-Marie Widor – Toccata from Symphony for Organ No. 5
Aram Khachaturian – "Sabre Dance" from the ballet "Gayane"
Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Te Deum

 

[Jill Hives]

Okay, I'm in for this one. Already picked the song.

 

[Pantone247]

what! Dexy's were never "one hit wonders"!!!!

 

[Moods For Mallards]

what! Dexy's were never "one hit wonders"!!!!

I know, but they are to Americans. Seriously. In America they were a novelty band with denim overalls and one hit.

 

[the departed]

what! Dexy's were never "one hit wonders"!!!!

a good few of those bands arent strictly one hit wonders.