Weekend Listomania: Special "A Boy Can Dream, Can't He?" Video Edition

[I originally posted a version of this back in 2007, which freaking astounds me. In any case, as is my wont, I've done some re-writing and substituted a couple of new entries, just so we have some music recorded in the current century for a change. In any event, enjoy. --S.S.]

Well, it's Friday, and you know what that means.

Yes, my hands on Asian manual catharsis technician Fah Lo Suee and I are heading off to Washington D.C. and the U.S Patent Office to register our revolutionary new Scrotum Deodorant Spray -- Elon Musk™!!!

But in the meantime, here's a hopefully fun project to help us wile away the idle hours until our return:

THE GREATEST COVER VERSIONS THAT NEVER WERE!!!

You know -- some really fabulous song you'd really like to hear some favorite artiste (solo or group) perform or record, but they never got (or haven't gotten) around to it (the bastards!!!).

Okay, my totally off the top of my head Top Ten is:

10. Vampire Weekend -- Here Comes My Baby [The Tremeloes]

My favorite three chord pop rock hit of all time performed by the guys who did "This Life"? I could die and go to heaven.

9. The Hold Steady -- The Boys Are Back in Town [Thin Lizzy]

They probably jammed on it at sound checks a thousand times -- if they're still an ongoing concern, it's about time they go public with it for gosh sakes.

8. The Pretenders -- Every Little Bit Hurts [Brenda Holloway]

My fave 60s soul ballad/torch song would be a natural for Chrissie Hynde, I suspect. Trivia note: The song was written by the same guy who wrote "Dirty Water." Pretty versatile dude, obviously.

7. Neko Case -- The First Cut Is The Deepest [Cat Stevens]

Because she'd do it better than Sheryl Crow, duh.

6. Steve Earle -- Street Fighting Man [The Rolling Stones]

C'mon -- this is the job he was born for.

5. Bob Mould -- Calvary Cross [Richard and Linda Thompson]

On the 1994 Thompson tribute album Beat the Retreat, Mould turned the rockabilly tinged "Turning of the Tide" into a killer piece of buzz-saw punk. I swoon to imagine what he could do with Thompson's most intensely doom-haunted song....

4. The Floor Models -- Second Choice [Any Trouble]

Hey -- as you can hear, we already ripped it off -- we should have just copped to it and covered it.

3. Elvis Costello and the Attractions -- One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) [Bob Dylan]

If anybody is going to do the most majestic "Blonde On Blonde" song of them all, it should be these guys.

2. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -- 19th Nervous Breakdown [The Rolling Stones]

Jagger's snarl would have morphed into Petty's sly drawl pretty good, doncha think? It's a shame that, to my knowledge, Tom never got around to covering it.

And the number one cover I'd love to hear is....

1. Led Zeppelin -- Bits and Pieces [Dave Clark Five]

For obvious reasons.....

Alrighty then -- what would YOUR choices be?

And have a great weekend, everybody!!!