Best Garagey Punkified Cover Songs?

[Audio Gasoline]

One of my favorite mix-tape topics. Not songs that were originally GP, but songs from other genres that got the GP treatment.

A few of my top picks:
Zeke - Rhiannon (by Fleetwood Mac)
Minor Threat - Stepping Stone (Monkees)
The Crosstops - Six Days On The Road (Dave Dudley)

[John Battles]

Also , Quad Pi (Pre - Lithium Xmas ) ,did a slow , trembly ,dark , also almost unrecognizable, "Last Train To Clarksville" as (Last Train To)  Mortville , in homage to John Waters.
 
John Battles said:

"My Sweet Lord" by Lithium Xmas , almost unrecognizeable.

[John Battles]

''Piranha" by I Spit on Your Gravy" is a thoroughly whacked take on guess which already - Garage Punk song by The Monkees , but , originally done , in a more Punked out  manner , by Paul Revere and The Raiders . HA HA. There's a good quote for ya - "The Monkees were cool. They MIMED well" , Mark Lindsay. I heard him tell somebody that !

[Jamie]

One of my all-time favorite covers in general is The Slits version of "Heard it Through the Grapevine."

[The Pulsebeats]

Yeah, the Slits version is ace. You gotta love all those Detroit Cobras versions as well. Folc Records are planning a "Queremos ser negro (We Wanna be Black). With Los Chicos at the helm it's bound to be ace. We've also just done a cover of Gino Washington's Outta This World. 'tis up on our page if you fancy checking it out.

[Mats Jansson]

Dirtbombs - Kiss Kiss Kiss

[Pigmeat]

I dig the Oblivians "Locomotion" on Best of the Worst... I think because i'm more familiar with the kylie minogue sucky version than the little eva one... Country Teasers "No Limits" and "Tainted love" our also classic...

[Mr Yates]

I love Bored's cover of ACDCs Whole Lotta Rosie, they also do a killer cover of My Pal on a Spanish 7"

[JackTheApache]

anyone know of a good punkified cover of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison? I know Ty Segall did a version, I just wanted to see of anyone else did.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9g9kVB93lQ

this is Ty's version ^^

[ChazDaddy]

Yes!!!  One of my all time favorites.

Alex said:

The entire "Ultraglide In Black" album by The Dirtbombs.

[ChazDaddy]

I also dig Ty's cover of "Cherry Red" and his whole EP "Ty Rex" where he covers 6 T-Rex tunes.  Great stuff.

JackTheApache said:

anyone know of a good punkified cover of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison? I know Ty Segall did a version, I just wanted to see of anyone else did.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9g9kVB93lQ

this is Ty's version ^^

[ChazDaddy]

Another point on The Detroit Cobras manyof their tunes are covers, old R and B, Motown B-sides etc. Really like them too.

 

Chaz

[PsycoRec]

Cosmic cars - The Dirtbombs (Cybotron)