30 Day Song Challenge Podcast - Days 6, 7 & 8

Day 6- A song that makes you want to Dance 

I wanna dance with somebody - Whitney Houston  

Bust a move - Young MC

Call on Me - Eric Prydz 

Thought about “Call your girlfriend” to go head to head with "Dancing on my own today"

Rosco’s Pick - “Don’t Leave me this way” by Thelma Houston - Disco pick - nice. 

Day 7 - A song to drive to 

Running Down a Dream - Tom Petty

La Grange - ZZ Top (Sharp dressed man, She’s got Legs, Gimme All your Lovin’)

Knocked up - Kings of Leon (they’ve got a ton of these)

Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi

Hells Bells - AC/DC 

The Heat is On - Glenn Frey (Beverly Hills Cop ) - opening scene 

Born to be Wild -  Steppen Wolf 

Low Rider -which until today I didn’t realize was by the band War ( I also didn’t know until today that War sang "Why can’t we be Friends?"

Regulators - Nate Dogg and Warren G 

We Didn’t Start the Fire - Billy Joel 

Turn the Page - Seger 

Day 8 - Song about drugs or alcohol 

OT Genasis - Cut it, CoCo 

311 - who’s got the herb 

Sublime - smoke two joints, 40oz to Freedom, Let’s go get stoned   

Snoop Dogg - Gin & Juice 

Cheers (Drink to that) Rhianna) 

Bob Marley - Reggae 

One Bourbon One Scotch and One Beer - George Thorogood & the Destroyers 

Cypress Hill - Hits from the Bong 

Friends in Low places (Garth Brooks)

Country Music times a million 

Mr. Brownstone - GNR 

Night Train - GNR 

Dr. Feelgood 

Blame It - Jamie Foxx & T-Pain

Tequila Makes her Clothes Fall Off

It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere 

Love is the Drug - Roxy Music

I took a Pill In Ibiza - Mike Posner 

Not and Addict - K’s Choice 

Lit Up - Buck Cherry 

Eric Caption - Cocaine 

Mary Jane - Rick James - might be about a lady named that, but I’m not sure if it’s not a metaphor 

Swimming Pools - Kendrick Lamar 

Cold Gin - Kiss 

Brass Monkey - Beastie Boys

Rosco’s Brainstorm - Sweat Leaf (Black Sabbath), Lucy in the Sky w Diamonds, Juice (Lizzo), Purple Haze, Puff the magic dragon, Under the Bridge, Trippin’ on a hole in a paper heart, Bad & Boujee 

Greatest Covers Songs of all time

The Top Cover Songs by Famous Bands/Singers

The Joe Cocker All-Stars: Cover songs that are either vastly superior to the original or just completely original musical arrangements 

Joe Cocker "Get by with a little help from my friends”, “You are so beautiful”, “The Letter” and “Feelin’ Alright” 

He’s the king of the “Cover where the band makes it there own”. 

UB40 is a great example of this with “Red Red Wine” - which is a PERFECT COVER in my opinion

Rod Stewart was really good at this as well. 

Boyz in the Hood By Dynamite Hack - another great example

Take on Me - Reel Big Fish - another great example

In Bloom - Sturgill Simpson  

Ryan Adams “Wonderwall” and like 10 other songs by him 

Johnny Cash "Rusty Cage” 

I will Survive by “Cake” 

Gin and Juice - The Gourds

You Really Got me - Van Halen (honorable mention to Diamond David Lee Roth for “Just a Gigolo” 

Faith - Limp Bizkit (hate it, but gotta give ‘em credit) 

Straight Away Covers

Ring of Fire by Social Distortion

You might Think by Weezer

Hurt by Johnny Cash

Voodoo Child - Stevie Ray Vaughn 

Here’s a straight ahead cover the STINKS — Phil Collins - Can’t Hurry Love — THAT’S how you make a great song WORSE! KARAOKE Style 

Carless Whisper by Seether - that’s exotic dancing music right there 

Smoking in the Boys Room - Motley Crue 

Land of Confusion - Disturbed 

Covers in which you thought they were the Original

Whitney Houston “I will always love you” All-Stars  — This song isn’t even great — SHE IS JUST SO TRANSCENDENT and her voice is impossible to explain with words

Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin Cover by Kris Kristofferson 

Urge Overkill “Girl you’ll be a woman soon” 

Nirvana "Lake of Fire”  

Gary Jules and Michael Andrews "Mad World” 

Take me to the river - Talking Heads — THAT WAS AN AL GREEN JAM???? 

Tainted Love - Soft Cell — i just thought the “where did our love go part” was a cover  during the outro

"It’s my Life" No Doubt

My top 5

Signs by Tesla 

Scarlet Begonias by Sublime (Honorable Mention)

Gypsy Kings - Hotel California - in Spanish and from an iconic scene for the Big Lebowski (honorable mention) 

All Along the Watch Tower - Jimi Hendrix 

Knocking on Heaven’s door - GNR

Sweet Dreams are made of This - Marilyn Manson (honorable mention) 

Blue Monday by Orgy 

Mony Mony - Billy Idol (this is my #6) 

It’s My Life - No Doubt 

Nothing Compares 2 U - Prince cover a song he wrote and gave to somebody else to make famous - In addition it’s been covered by Chris Cornell, The Dixie Chicks, Capital Cities, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies and More 

No Woman, No Cry - The Fugees 

Red Red Wine - UB40

Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann (stole it from Bruce Springsteen and made it a bigger hit) that one’s for your Rosco. In addition - Manfred Mann took Bob Dylan’s Mighty Quinn to Number 1 in the 1960’s

Fun Fact: Bob Dylan covers being better performed by somebody else are plentiful - Guns N’ Roses, Manfred Mann, Jimi Hendrix,  the Byrds with Mr. Tamborine Man  

Leonard Cohen’s Alleluja has been remade a ton but it took like 4 iterations until Jeff Buckley NAILED IT - covered by Malcolm Gladwell