A few days ago, everybody’s favorite Babymetal Wales tour organizer tweeted:
Top 5 idol covers of Toto's "Africa" I'd like to hear:
1. BiS
2. 14th Generation Hanako of the Toilet
3. Especia (deceased)
4. Tentenko
5. Beat Mints Boyz— Christian Winsall (@toxicbreakfast) April 17, 2018
What an interesting thing! I have no disagreement with any of that. It did get me thinking, though, because every time I consider what I’d want my entirely hypothetical idol project to do, it includes a lot of covers to both show respect for the group’s influences and to put a new, unique spin on some classics (and definitely not in any way to pad out albums or have quick-turnaround releases, you jerks!).
Also, it’s been longer than I’d anticipated since the last Ranked post, so I thought this might make for some fun over the weekend, too. As usual, this is just a ranking, not the all-time ranking, merely a collection of songs that would make for cool idol covers that are ranked relatively to one another.
- “Gimme Shelter”
- “Behind Blue Eyes”
- “Down in a Hole”
- “Proud Mary”
- “Everything’s Ruined”
- “Jolene”
- “Freedom! ’90”
- “Baba O’Reily”
- “18 and Life”
- “Megitsune”
- “Sorrow”
- “I Want You Back”
- “Landslide”
- “Love Is a Battlefield”
- “This Fire Burns”
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- Michael McDonald covering Christopher Cross covering Hall and Oates covering The Shaggs
- “Despacito”
What about you? What are some awesome songs that you’d love to hear done as a cover, by idols?
It’s not so much that “Despacito” is a bad song, it’s that it’s an impossibly derivative song that’s been done to death; I fear for the youth of the world
You can of course tick number 12 off the list.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5eugnr
Maina and the Seasons! Well done.
First off “Kill Yr Idols” by Sonic Youth because raisins.
Next up any group doing this song with these costumes and this choreography.