RBN Undercover series

[FairwoodStudios]

First off, all credit for the idea goes to RhythmBastard. He just asked that "writers more skilled" make the RB forum post, and he got me. Sorry!

If anyone here is a fan of The Onion A.V. Club, you're probably familiar with the Undercover series. In short, a bunch of mildly-popular bands come in, one after another, to cover songs from wildly-popular bands. But the songs come from a list, and that list is dwindled down over the series' run. Pretty quickly, bands get stuck with songs that make for kinda funny and really interesting tracks.

So if you replace "bands" with "RBN bands", you get what we're going for. We want to bring the far ends of RBN together, getting obscure punk bands to play mega-hit pop songs or whatever ends up happening. Something to show the diverse character of the Network in a fun and potentially ridiculous way. Obviously, these songs aren't for authoring to RBN, this is just for Youtube sort of publicity and the general community fun of being musicians.

There's already a few author-artists interested, but while we construct the final artist list we're going to need a song list. That's what this thread is for! We will be putting a lot of the popular stuff on the list- "Higher", "Bodies", "Blue (Da Ba Dee)", what have you- but we also want to have "cult classics" and generally interesting stuff to throw on the list too. And of course, it's always best to get more opinions.

So aside from saying "this is cool, it's happening", we want your help to build the list. What popular (or semi-popular) RBN songs would you like to see covered? Try and keep your picks to about 10 max, and do remember that people are gonna try to do these songs for real so... be reasonable, I guess. As things narrow down we'll start grouping suggestions into categories in such a way that we get a nice, diverse selection for the bands. I will note that this isn't a democracy, primarily so that none of the bands will know too far ahead what's coming. Half the fun is the surprise.

[MagicMurderBag7]

Pac-Man Fever done by a metal band would be funny.

I would also like to see Dance for the Dying do a cover of Nugget Man by Paul and Storm

[TubaDude49]

I'd love to see Felsen's "Two Utensils In One" covered

[firedoom666]

Discord would be awesome

and of course it would be awesome to see Dawn of a Million Souls

[machetemonkey]

Pac-Man Fever done by a metal band would be funny.

As a RBN artist, if I get my way with the song choices, this may become a reality. =P

[SheSaidSheSaid]

Ship With No Sails
Estranger
Sweet#hart
Obfuscation
Any Rose of Jericho song

These'd top my list

Will there be a website dedicated to this? How's this all going to come out.

[TheOzone]

I think "Froggy's Lament" would be a lot better for a metal cover.

- I'd like to see a female-fronted band do "Pac-Man Fever" or "Do the Donkey Kong".
- An a capella "BRODYQUEST" could be amazing if done right. If Rockapella were available, I'd say them but that's a long shot.
- A ska version of "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" would blow my mind.
- Any style of cover of "The Touch" would be great.

[MagicMurderBag7]

Ooooh Crash Years by The New Pornographers!

[TubaDude49]

If I might suggest one of my own songs, I'd love to see someone tackle "Toast"(Heywood Banks)

"Andromeda"(Bluefusion), "The Batlle Of Lil' Slugger"(dB Soundworks), and the previously mentioned "Two Utensils In One"(Felsen) would also be cool.

[LiveHomeVideo]

Here's some I'd love to see:

"In the Wake of Evolution" by Kaipa
"Color Your World" by Devin Townsend
"Creatures ov Deception" or "Heavy Weather - Storm ov the Undead" by Rainbowdragoneyes
"The Ultimate Showdown" by Lemon Demon
"He Sleeps In a Grove" by Amberian Dawn
"Dance With Me" by Stewart