leedoggpimp
Member
i'm trying to put a covers mixtape together... can anyone give the full list of songs morrissey has covered throughout his solo career.
i'm trying to put a covers mixtape together... can anyone give the full list of songs morrissey has covered throughout his solo career.
Paging Kewpie...
Not including covers of a certain other 80s band, here they are:
- Cosmic Dancer (T-Rex)*
- Human Being (New York Dolls)
- Interlude (Timi Yuro)
- Moon River (Mancini/Mercer)
- My Insatiable One (Suede)
- No One Can Hold A Candle To You (Raymonde)
- Nothing Rhymed (Noel Coward?)*
- A Song From Under The Floorboards (Magazine)
- Skin Storm (Bradford)
- Street Life (Roxy Music)*
- Subway Train (New York Dolls)*
- That's Entertainment (The Jam)*
- Trash (New York Dolls)*
* live only
Have I forgotten any?
Paging Kewpie...
Not including covers of a certain other 80s band, here they are:
- Cosmic Dancer (T-Rex)*
- Human Being (New York Dolls)
- Interlude (Timi Yuro)
- Moon River (Mancini/Mercer)
- My Insatiable One (Suede)
- No One Can Hold A Candle To You (Raymonde)
- Nothing Rhymed (Noel Coward?)*
- A Song From Under The Floorboards (Magazine)
- Skin Storm (Bradford)
- Street Life (Roxy Music)*
- Subway Train (New York Dolls)*
- That's Entertainment (The Jam)*
- Trash (New York Dolls)*
* live only
Have I forgotten any?
OK, what? He covered an a-Ha song? That is the grand irony of my life. Where, when? I'll have to track that one down.
Well, two of those are a bit tenuous - if you can track down a boot of The Move Festival, he sings "England my country, the home of the free, such miserable weather" at the beginning. He sings My Way at the beginning of the MEN gig, and the A-Ha song was sung at the beginning of the Kristiansand, Norway gig. All details can be found on Passionsjustlikemine.com.
Peter
To clarify many of the songs that were listed are unreleased and/or soundchecks...Correct?
A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV - Morrissey live - sung in part as an intro to gig in Kristiansund
*Al Jolson - Sonny Boy - Blagged for The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Audrey Hepburn - Moon River - Morrissey B-Side
Bradford - Skin Storm - Morrissey B-Side
*Buddy Holly - Everyday - Smiths Soundcheck
*Cilla Black - Work Is A Four-Letter Word - Smiths B-Side
David Bowie - Drive-In Saturday - Morrissey Live song
*Elvis Presley - (Marie's The Name Of) His Latest Flame - Smiths live song - on Rank
*Elvis Presley - (Now And Again There's A) Fool Such As I - Unreleased from The Smiths last recording session
Frank Sinatra - My Way - Morrissey live - at the start of Who Put The M In Manchester
*Gary Glitter - Rock And Roll Part 2 - Smiths soundcheck
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Nothing Rhymed - Morrissey Live (Dublin)
Herman's Hermits - East West - Morrissey B-Side
*James - What's The World - Smiths B-Side
*Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze - Smiths soundcheck
*Jonny Tillotson - Send Me The Pillow You Dream On - Blagged for Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Magazine - A Song From Under The Floorboards - Morrissey B-Side
New York Dolls - Human Being - Morrissey B-Side
New York Dolls - Subway Train Morrissey B-Side (into Everyday Is Like Sunday)
New York Dolls - Trash - Morrissey live (on Live In Dallas)
Patti Smith - Redondo Beach -Morrissey B-Side
Raymonde - No One Can Hold A Candle To You - Morrissey B-Side
Roxy Music - Street Life - Morrissey live
The Sundays - Can't Be Sure - Morrissey live - Move Festival
Suede - My Insatiable One - Morrissey live, also B-Side
*The Cookies - I Want A Boy For My Birthday - First Smiths recording - was to be the first single (according to Dale Hibbert)
The Jam - That's Entertainment - Morrissey B-Side
Timi Yuro - Interlude - Morrissey (& Siouxsie) single
T-Rex - Cosmic Dancer - Morrissey live, also B-Side
*Twinkle - Golden Lights - Smiths B-Side
*Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - A Groovy Kind Of Love - Smiths soundcheck
Recordings *definitely* exist for all of the above, even A Fool Such As I, which Grant Showbiz confirms.
Peter