My CD Covers Radio Photos 
Home

David Craig Simpson's music page

Covers

Songs I stole from other (in most cases better) artists.

[SND] Downtown Train (3.4M) (Waits): Rod Stewart stole this song from Tom Waits. I'm stealing it back.

[SND] City of New Orleans (3.5M) (Goodman): Arlo Guthrie did the most famous version of this song.

[SND] Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (2.3M) (Dylan): A classic Bob Dylan song.

[SND] Upward Over the Mountain (3.1M) (Beam): An Iron & Wine song. I love the original.

[SND] Daysleeper (1.4M) (Buck/Mills/Stipe): A really underrated R.E.M. song.

[SND] The Chimbley Sweep (3.1M) (Meloy): A Decemberists cover.

[SND] Mad World (2.7M) (Orzabal): One of my favorite Tears For Fears songs. My favorite is "Everybody Wants To Rule The World," but that sounds boring on acoustic guitar.

[SND] It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (3.5M) (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe): This always goes over big live, mostly because I know all the lyrics from memory.

[SND] Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (2.9M) (Dylan): More Dylan.

[SND] P.S. (2.9M) (Phillips/Nichols/Dinning/Guss): A Toad the Wet Sprocket cover.

[SND] Bomb the World (2.8M) (Franti): A peace song, by Michael Franti from Spearhead. I first heard it while driving, late at night, and was very moved.

[SND] Cold Brains (2.6M) (Beck): Typically nonsensical Beck song.

[SND] Hallelujah (1.7M) (Cohen): Leonard Cohen cover, by way of Jeff Buckley and Rufus Wainwright.

[SND] Comfortably Numb (3.6M) (Waters/Gilmour): My second favorite Pink Floyd song.

[SND] 867-5309 (3.0M) (?): It's that Tommy Tutone song from the 1980s. Admit it, this song is a guilty pleasure.

[SND] Something In the Way (2.6M) (Cobain/Novoselic/Grohl): Nirvana song I did because it has only two chords in it.

[SND] Times Like These (3.4M) (Grohl): Foo Fighters cover.

[SND] Knockin' On Heaven's Door (1.4M) (Dylan): I like to play this song partly because too many people believe the Guns 'N Roses version was the original.

[SND] Patience (3.8M) (Rose/Slash/Stradlin/McKagan/Adler): This one actually is a Guns 'N Roses song. I learned it because the bartender at the bar I was playing at at the time promised me a free beer if I did.

[SND] Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (9.3M) (Lightfoot): The Gordon Lightfoot song, played as slow and sad as I could.

[SND] Karma Police (4.6M) (Yorke/Greenwood/Selway/O'Brien/Greenwood): Radiohead song. Where else are you going to hear the line "her Hitler hairdo is making me feel ill"?

All original content © 2000-2005 David Craig Simpson. But for personal use, take what you like.