Well, We're all in quarentine now and haven't seen a live gig since St Patty's Day, even CIUT is in lockdown but it's not like I'm going stir crazy and compliling a list of vaguely Covid related tunes or any thing. But since you asked here's a list of vaguely Covid related tunes for your dancing-at-home-like-Risky-Business pleasure;
HUEY PIANO SMITH & THE CLOWNS ~ "THE ROCKING PNEUMONIA & THE BOOGIE WOOGIE FLU";
The orginal version of a song that would be better known as an Aerosmith.
LITTLE WILLIE JOHN ~ "FEVER";
The original and still the best version of this classic.
THE BEACH BOYS ~ "IN MY ROOM";
If there was anybody who probably would have enjoyed quarentine it was Brain Wilson.
THE McCOYS ~ "FEVER"
Still the best cover of this song.
AEROSMITH ~ "THE ROCKING PNEUMONIA & THE BOOGIE WOOGIE FLU";
Pretty sure Aerosmith are immune to any virus known to man at this point.
ROBERT PALMER ~ "DOCTOR DOCTOR";
Robert Palmer was like the frat-boy version of Brian Ferry which seems like a dumb idea but it works here.
ROXY MUSIC ~ "LOVE IS THE DRUG";
By this point Bryan Ferry was the lounge lizard version of early Bryan Ferry but it totally works
X-RAY SPECS ~ "GERM FREE ADOLESCENTS";
X-Ray Specs only ballad and it's as perfect as you could ask for.
JOY DIVISION ~ "ISOLATION";
Joy Division should be the official band of any quarantine
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN ~ "MY LIFE'S THE DISEASE";
And Echo & The Bunnymen can open for Joy Divison
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES ~ "PLACEBO EFFECT";
No; Echo & THe Bunnymen can open for Siouxsie & the Banshees, who can then open for Joy Division.
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES ~ "PLACEBO EFFECT";
A decade later the Banshees went bac and redid the song with a freaking string section and it totally worked.
SIMPLE MINDS ~ "NO CURE";
People forget how different Simple Minds sounded when they started out.
THE FIXX ~ "SHUTTERED ROOM";
And the Fixx can open for Simple Minds
MAGAZINE ~ "THE LIGHT POURS OUT OF ME";
"Time drags, My time crawls. Like an insect, up and down the walls"
WIRE ~ "I AM THE FLY";
"I shake you down to say please as you accept the next dose of disease".
MISFITS ~ "COUGH/COOL";
Glen Danzig in his early Jim Morrison phase
IGGY & THE STOOGES ~ "SICK OF YOU";
Iggy Pop in his Jim Morrison phase.
SOCIAL DISTORTION ~ "SICK BOY";
Because of course.
MUDHONEY ~ "TOUCH ME I'M SICK";
Becuase of course pt.2
SOCIAL STRIFE ~ "COVID-19";
Local Toronto band joins in with a decent effort
DIAMANDA GALAS ~ "THIS IS THE LAW OF THE PLAGUE";
She has an entire album with a plague theme that was actually about the AIDS pandemic but it's still relevant, not to mention scary.
VAN MORRISON ~ "TB SHEETS);
Van The Man once did a classic tuberculosis song. Then he went and ruined it by becoming a conspiracy theorist mask-hole.
VICTORIA SPIVEY ~ "TB BLUES";
The original tuberculosis blues. Jimmy Rodgers would later take the title and have a bigger hit with a different TB song.
MERLE HAGGARD ~ "TB BLUES";
Merle's version of the Jimmy Rodgers version.
THE RIZDALES ~ "SO CLEAN";
London band sends us off with a helpful note
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