This might've been a thread in one of the decades board, but I'll just revive it here. If you had a cover band, what songs would you cover?

I'd do almost any song if I could...but I'd definitely wanna do these:

Give Me One Reason/Tracy Chapman
Fastcar/Tracy Chapman
Turning Japanese/The Vapors
Kids In America/I forget who
One Way Or Another/Blondie
We're All Dudes/Less Than Jake featuring Kel Mitchell (of "All That", "Kenan & Kel", "Good Burger", & "Mystery Men" fame)
In The End/Linkin Park
My December/Linkin Park
Sunday Morning/No Doubt
Please Play This Song On The Radio/NoFX (or almost any song by NoFX)
Why Don't You Get A Job/Offspring
Bootylicious/Destiny's Child
Differences/Ginuwine
Mama Said Knock You Out/LL Cool J
Underneath Your Clothes/Shakira
U Got It Bad/Usher
Come Sail Away/Styx
Most Jimmy Buffett songs

...more later.

In the End- Linkin Park
Don't Let Me Get Me- Pink
Family Affair- Mary J. Blige
Hanging By a Moment- Lifehouse
Higher- Creed
With Arms Wide Open- Creed
My Sacrifice- Creed
Get This Party Started- Pink
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic- Police
Drops of Jupiter- Train
Wasting My Time- Default
Blurry- Puddle of Mudd
Last Kiss- Pearl Jam
Only Time- Enya (My voice wouldn't do THIS one too well!)

More later.. Definitley.

I'd cover Garbage music, which I frequently do in kareoke bars, anyway.

I also would cover a lot of the torch-singer type stuff, as my voice is somewhat low.

"Let My Mother Live" Ozzy Osbourne
"Madame De La Luna" Marc Almond
"A Lover Spurned" Marc Almond
"Death's Diary" Marc Almond
"I'd Rather Set Myself On Fire" Annabouboula
"I Love The Night" Blue Oyster Cult
"Nosferatu" Blue Oyster Cult
"In Dulce Decorum" The Damned
"Ouija Board, Ouija Board" Morrisey
"Blasphemous Rumors" Depeche Mode
"Beat On The Brat" the Ramones
"Tragic Hero" Funker Vogt
"Oops" Tweet
"You Can't Kill Me" Lene Lovich
"No Woman, No Cry" Bob Marley
"All Souls Night" Loreena McKennitt

This is all just off the top of my head, and assuming I've hired a singer that can sing better than I can.

And yes, I know the musical style is going all over the place here.  That's why the singer needs to be better than me.  *I* could certainly never do these songs justice.

Unbielevable/EMF
Right Here Right Now/Jesus Jones
Waiting for love/alias
Wild Wild West/Escape Club
where you going now/Damn Yankees
Dangerous/Roxette
IF You Needed Somebody/ Bad Company
Runaway train/Soul Asylum
(Not a lot of people cover Pre-nirvana 90's)

Human/Human league
Drive/the cars
Is this Love/whitesnake
Kirie/MR Mister

Just the first ones that come to mind...

Runaway Train/Soul Asylum
Don't Let Me Get Me/Pink
...more, of course.

19-2000/Gorillaz
Any Linkin Park song
Almost any No Doubt song
I Want You To Want Me/I forget again
The Middle/Jimmy Eat World
Wish You Were Here/Pink Floyd
Steal My Sunshine/Len
Fly Away/Lenny Kravitz
Brain On Ska/Mustard Plug (don't know if they're the original singers)
Don't Let Me Get Me/Pink
Blurry/Puddle Of Mudd
Control/Puddle Of Mudd
Oops (Oh My)/Tweet (hehe, this one would be interesting)
Walk Like An Egyptian/The Bangles
California/Phantom Planet
Scooby Doo Theme
Fat Lip/Sum41
Motivation/Sum41
Too Bad/Nickelback
Seein' Red/Unwritten Law
Southside (Remix)/Moby, Gwen Stefani

While comming home from work the other day, I was listening to an old mix tape of 'slow jams' and thought, "I shoulda put these on that 'cover' thread."   So:

The Beautiful Ones - Prince
Closer Than Friends - Surface
Love Is A House - Force MDs

more..

Angel- Shaggy
It Wasn't Me- Shaggy
Ride Wit Me- Nelly
Country Grammar- Nelly
(even though I can't rap..)

Under Pressure- Queen
Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen
Hungry Heart- Bruce Springsteen
Glory Days- Bruce Springsteen
We Didn't Start the Fire- Billy Joel
Fallin- Alicia Keys
Maneater- Daryl Hall and John Oates
Seven Days- Craig David
The Middle- Jimmy Eat World

What Would You Do/City High
Let Me Blow Ya Mind/Eve, Gwen Stefani
I'm Real (Remix)/J Lo, Ja Rule
Shaniqua/Little T, One Track Mike
Rollout/Ludacris
No More Drama/Mary J Blige
Get Ur Freak On/Missy Elliott
Try Again/Aaliyah
Shake It Fast/Mystikal
Ride Wit Me/Nelly
Rosa Parks/OutKast
Ms Jackson/OutKast
Alicia Keys songs
The Whole World/OutKast
Feelin On Ya Booty/R Kelly
Whenever, Wherever/Shakira
The Thong Song/Sisqo
Angel/Shaggy
It Wasn't Me/Shaggy
Gettin Jiggy Wit It/Will Smith
Just The Two Of Us/Will Smith
Just The Two Of Us (Dr Evil Remix) :)
Bubblegoose/Wyclef Jean
Most Aerosmith songs
Love Shack/B-52s
One Week/BNL
Cotton Eye Joe/Rednex
Mambo #5/Lou Bega
Tricky Tricky/Lou Bega
Peaches/The Presidents
Happy Happy Joy Joy/Ren & Stimpy Theme
Spongebob Squarepants Theme
Movies, Attitude, Courage/Alien Ant Farm
Most blink-182 songs
Short Skirt Long Jacket/Cake
Wasting My Time/Default
Freak On A Leash/KoRn
Dig In/Lenny Kravitz
Clams Have Feelings Too/NoFX
Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)/Offspring
Tom's Diner/Suvanne Vega
Toxicity/System Of A Down
Bitter Sweet Symphony/Verve
Last Nite/The Strokes
Beatles songs
One Last Breath, My Sacrifice/Creed
Take Ya Home/Bow Wow
Macarena/Los Del Rio (hehe)
Case Of The Ex/Mya
Bohemian Rhapsody/Queen
Wish You Were Here/Pink Floyd
Eye Of The Tiger/Survivor
South Park theme
Ice Ice Baby/Vanilla Ice
Most Vitamin C songs.

Nice to see someone has brought a thread that I started back to life after everything got deleated. I'll write mine again :)

I know It's Over - The Smiths
This Charming Man - The Smiths
This Night Has Opened My Eyes - The Smiths

I want you to want me - Cheap Trick/Letters To Cleo
cruel to be kind - Nick Lowe/Letters To Cleo

Turning Japanese - The Vapours

Come on Eileen - D M R/Save Ferris ( a much better version IMO!)

Sunday Girl - Blondie
Island Of Lost Souls - Blondie

Town Called Malice - The Jam

Ever fallen in love - Buzzcocks

The warmth - Incubus
Are you in? - Incubus
I miss you - Incubus

Never let you go - Third Eye Blind

There she goes - The La's

Glory of love - A New Found Glory/Peter Cetera

Black Balloon - Goo Goo Dolls

Slight return - Bluetones
Marblehead johnson - Bluetones

On standby - Shed Seven

Unforgivable sinner -Lene Marlin

Zombie - Cranberries

Smooth criminal - Alien Ant Farm/M J

Don’t leave me this way - Communards/Harold melvin & the Bluenotes

Tempted - Squeeze

Apology - Go Go's
Head Over Heels - Go Go's
Vacation - Go Go's

Eternal Flame - Bangles
If She Knew What She Wants - Bangles

Something - Lasgo

iio - Rapture

U Got It Bad - Usher

No No No - Destinys Child

How You Remind Me - Nickelback

I Don't Want To Talk About It - EBTG

Breathing - Lifehouse

Only You - Platters

California Dreaming - Mammas & Pappas

Wow - pretty big list considering I'm a person who slags off 90% of covers :) Not that I will ever find fame with singing though! Think i could manage fronting a punk/indie band though :)

How You Remind Me, Too Bad/Nickelback
Foolish Games, Hands, Who Will Save.../Jewel
Are You Gonna Go My Way?/Lenny Kravitz (this will definitely be one of the first songs I cover if I ever join/start a band)
Black Balloon, Here Is Gone, etc.../Goo Goo Dolls
Come On Eileen/Dexy's Midnight Runners, Save Ferris (I agree, Criz, they did a better version!)
What Would Brian Boitano, It's Easy Mmmkay, Blame Canada, Chocolate Salty Balls, In The Ghetto, Swiss Colony Beeflog/from "South Park"
Hot In Herre/Nelly
Sweet Child O Mine/Guns N Roses
Barbie Girl/Aqua :D

How could I forget Jewel - she is fantastic! I would probably cover 'Down so Long' and 'Deep Water'.

Also looking at your lists Junior - would you cover the South Park version of 'Bubblegoose' - Cartman is great on that record!!

Thriller- Michael Jackson
Beat It- Michael Jackson
Don't Stop Till You Get Enough- Michael Jackson
Smooth Criminal- Michael Jackson
More More More- Andrea True Connection
My Decemeber- Linkin Park
Most anything by Creed
Roxanne- Police
Desert Rose- Sting
If I Ever Lose My Faith In You- Sting
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic- Police
No More Drama- Mary J Blige

there's a place in hell for me and my friends~~morrissey
asian rut~~morrissey
king leer~~morrissey
ouija board, ouija board~~morrissey

reel around the fountain~~the smiths
how soon is now?~~the smiths

anything by tori amos

all of 'marvin, the album' by frente!

solsbury hill~~peter gabriel

freebird~~lynyrd skynyrd

(don't fear) the reaper~~blue oyster cult

i do~~edie brickell & new bohemians

and here are some that aren't really covers, but i would sing them if i'm ever in a band:

loch lomond~~scottish folk tune

gwahoddiad~~welsh hymn...means invitation (or so i'm told)

pasttime with good company~~henry VIII

there are so many others, but i can't think of them right now.

Don't Cry For Me Argentina/Madonna
Paul Simon songs
Wonderwall/Oasis
Champagne Supernova/Oasis
What If/RX Bandits
Ten Seconds.../RX Bandits
What's Going On/Marvin Gaye
You Sexy Thing/Hot Chocolate
Adrienne/The Calling

I would still remake those I listed before "4/11". But here are some I can remember:
"You Are So Beautiful"-Joe Cocker (which I did before, terribly)
"On Broadway"-Drifters (with more of a jazzy beat)
"Dreamweaver"-Gary Wright
"Dream On"=Aerosmith
"Junk Food Junkie"-Larry Groce
"I Can't Explain"-The Who (Because, if I'm not mistaken, no American acts have covered it)
I would also put lyrics in "Frankenstein" by the Edgar Winter Group)