I am compiling the covers of Wire songs (excluding those on Whore and Dugga) and the covers performed by Wire. The tape is entitled pre-Whore. This is just for my amusement, not any sort of commercial release. Please let me know if anything is missing from this list.
And thanks to everyone who has contributed to this list. By compiling estimates and actual track lengths, this compilation requires at least three volumes!
By the way, I am going to spork the next person who tells me that Lush played "Mannequin" on Whore. I know that already!!! They also played "Outdoor Miner" on For Love and Superblast.
| Covers of Wire songs | |
|---|---|
| African Corps | Three Girl Rhumba |
| Antenna | Outdoor Miner |
| Band Of Susans | Too Late |
| Betty Goo | Ex-Lion Tamer |
| Big Black | Heartbeat |
| Boss Hog | 12XU |
| Carter USM | Mannequin |
| Chumbawamba | Mannequin |
| Dag Nasty | 12XU |
| Deja Voodoo | Strange |
| Dive | Heartbeat |
| Fiddlehead | Ex-Lion Tamer |
| fIREHOSE | Mannequin |
| Flying Saucer Attack | Outdoor Miner |
| Garlic Frog Diet | Mr Suit |
| Charles de Goal | Question Of Degree |
| The Grays | Outdoor Miner |
| Halogen | Heartbeat |
| Inc. | Blessed State |
| Insect Surfers | Ex-Lion Tamer |
| Die Kreuzen | Pink Flag |
| Kustomized | Surgeon's Girl |
| Lightning Seeds | Outdoor Miner |
| Luna | Outdoor Miner |
| Lush | Outdoor Miner |
| Meat Puppets | Outdoor Miner |
| Minor Threat | 12XU |
| Miss Murgatroid | Used To |
| Roy Montgomery | Used To |
| My Life Story | Outdoor Miner |
| New Bomb Turks | Mr Suit |
| Passion Killers | Reuters |
| Pink Lincolns | Ex-Lion Tamer |
| Pluck Theatre | Outdoor Miner |
| Political Asylum | The 15th |
| R. E. M. | Strange |
| Red Zoo | 5 / 10 |
| Henry Rollins | Ex-Lion Tamer |
| Ruth's Refrigerator | Outdoor Miner |
| Salem 66 | Fragile |
| Second Wind | Mr Suit |
| Serious Drinking | 12XU |
| Slingbacks | Outdoor Miner |
| Sorry | Ex-Lion Tamer |
| Spoke | Ahead |
| Stigmata A Go Go | Outdoor Miner |
| That Petrol Emotion | Mannequin |
| Therapy? | Reuters |
| This Colossal Hill Figure | Love Ain't Polite |
| Yo La Tengo | Too Late |
| Pro-Seed | (Wir) Naked, Whooping, And Such-Like |
| This Mortal Coil | (Colin Newman) Not Me |
| This Mortal Coil | (Colin Newman) Alone |
| Elastica | Connection (= Three Girl Rhumba) |
| Covers performed by Wire | ||
|---|---|---|
| Wire | Dave Clark Five | Glad All Over |
| Wire | J. J. Cale | After Midnight |
| Colin Newman | Beatles | Blue Jay Way |
| Wire | Jon Richman & Modern Lovers | Roadrunner |
| He Said | Leonard Cohen | Suzanne |
| A. C. Marias | Canned Heat | Time Was |
| A. C. Marias | Lou Reed | Vicious |
| Wir | Erasure | Figures In Crumbs (= Fingers And Thumbs) |
| Oracle | Lovin' Spoonful | Coconut Grove |
| He Said Omala | Roy Orbinson | Troubled Mind (= Blue Bayou) |
It's beginning, to, and back again.
qwerty@cmu.edu