Songs that might be good to hear Elbow cover.

Oh boy. We are all so 80s around here!

Lol. I think that more Massive Attack would be good

Yeah, Teardrop was just heartbreaking!!! Great, great cover!

Anyone else think that it was better than the original?

The original one is great! Really great. Elbows is just a different version. It's Guys voice again. Massive Attack was sung by a woman, you can't compare them. I love both versions!

Love to hear the boys do cupid!!!!

Possession by Sarah Mclachlan.

I've always loved the song, although I'm not a huge Sarah Mclachlan fan. Heard it this morning and could imagine Elbow covering it brilliantly.

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm8JoMhgjRw

Topaz wrote:

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm8JoMhgjRw

OOO good call, one of my favourite songs ever, I never get tired of hearing it.

Me too. And me neither.

Also love LOVE Lover You Should've Come Over, but I think Last Goodbye would more suit Elbow. Don't you just think Guy's voice would be about perfect for the song?!

Yesterday - The Beatles; just imagine Guy singing that!!

Another one - I've just been listening to This Is Hardcore by Pulp.

Great song, musically muscular and powerful, building to a climax, but then followed by that glorious 2 minute coda. With Jarvis singing, the song is simply dripping with sleaze, disgust, and (self?) loathing, but behind that there is something else, a kind of desperate sadness. I'm not sure if an Elbow version would work, but it could be fantastic, the band could really do something with the music, and Guy's voice might bring out a different aspect of the song.

I would love to hear it, anyway.

Wicked song, aye. Dunno about an Elbow version! Maybe it's the sleaze, as you you say.

Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing

That'd be killer.

Having seen Glen Campbell do Witchita Lineman on Jools Holland I thought of Elbow and what their version might sound like.

LITTLE WING?? are you mad?? Topaz, i dont think any of them are qualified technically enough! haha

It would be killer though... :0

haha

evilpixie wrote:

Having seen Glen Campbell do Witchita Lineman on Jools Holland I thought of Elbow and what their version might sound like.

ooh, could be interesting... being (nearly) Mancunian they'd change it to Wythenshawe Lineman though.

Id love it if they covered Sole/Seoul/Soul/however you spell it, by Erasure. I hate the eighties, but thats a tuuune!!

You hate the 80s? Just everything released in that time? You're missing out on some gold, my friend.





To name just a few! And that's not even mentioning the glorious golden age of hip-hop in the late 80s. That was a fun post to make

That post took a bit of doing...

A lot of Keane stuff would be good, done by Elbow. Especially Bedshaped.

Nahh Keane is an Elbow influenced band... that'd be like Genesis covering Kansas. But don't get me wrong, love me Keane...

leo wrote:

Id love it if they covered Sole/Seoul/Soul/however you spell it, by Erasure. I hate the eighties, but thats a tuuune!!

Did you mean 'Little Respect'?

that's the bastard!! cheers evilpixie