Club Unpopular

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Just commented in zenith's LJ:

I want to do a Club Unpopular at some point with only cover versions and remixes of No.1s

Know any good ones?

(Not that this will actually happen ever but lists are fun)

(PS I've been busy with Poplar the last day or two, I feel quite virtuous!)

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

NB mention of Ruby Trax not permitted.

oi!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

CLUB UNPOPULAR wz gnna be me marcello and julio playing THE COMPLETE CECIL TAYLOR BOX SET in relays

Re: oi!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

CURSES, FOILED AGANE.

well done on the poplar, did you have these written before GV and have just been saving them since you got that done?

jose gonzales hand on yr heart for starters...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No, I wrote the three that went up yesterday yesterday and today's one today. I dunno why exactly it took me so long to get round to the Monkees!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

there is gud comment action on monkees too, poor pet, commentless there.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Tori Amos had a song on that! A cover of 'Ring My Bell'.

(nb I do not own it or know what else is on it, and am suspecting that i would not like to)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

lex fave's the suede doing "brass in pocket" for one.

where fave = "not owning an album in any meaningful sense" ??

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

if it's on the pile of stuff to be sold, you can't own it!

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Lispector cover of Total Eclipse Of the Heart maybe!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Abba's cover of Erasure chart-topper Take A Chance On Me!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

poptimist post "unpopular" more like...

are other people not as bored as i this afternoon?

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Frank Zappa, "Stairway to Heaven"? Or "Ring of Fire" maybe.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

2 off the top of my head...

The Click 5 - I Think We're Alone Now
Alcazar - Don't You Want Me Baby

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i THINK i played the alcazar cover at my sparsely attended stint at poptimism. at least i was playing it to death on my ipod around that time.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

If there's gonna be a "I Think We're Alone Now" cover, it has to be the Lene Lovich one. I've fell for that pretty heavily recently.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

I've never heard it! I like the American McFly-but-better version, though, I think the song needs to be teenage, and they are so teenage (although I have a feeling they are really in their 20s)

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

If this is actually ever being done ask again and I will put together a lengthy list of good ones from my collection. I think it should also include previous versions of songs that made #1 too.