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. So far this compilation will require at least three volumes! The third column indicates the format in which I have the song. Any help with obtaining the missing songs is greatly appreciated!
| Covers of Wire songs | ||
|---|---|---|
| African Corps | Three Girl Rhumba | CS copy |
| Antenna | Outdoor Miner | CD |
| Band Of Susans | Too Late | CD |
| Betty Goo | Ex-Lion Tamer | CS copy |
| Big Black | Heartbeat | CD |
| Boss Hog | 12XU | CD |
| Carter USM | Mannequin | CD |
| Chumbawamba | Mannequin | - |
| Dag Nasty | 12XU | - |
| Deja Voodoo | Strange | - |
| Dive | Heartbeat | - |
| Fiddlehead | Ex-Lion Tamer | - |
| fIREHOSE | Mannequin | CD |
| Flying Saucer Attack | Outdoor Miner | CD |
| Garlic Frog Diet | Mr Suit | CD |
| Charles de Goal | Question Of Degree | - |
| The Grays | Outdoor Miner | CD |
| Halogen | Heartbeat | - |
| Hitmen 3 | 12XU | CD |
| Hitmen 3 | Outdoor Miner | CD |
| Inc. | Blessed State | - |
| Insect Surfers | Ex-Lion Tamer | LP |
| Die Kreuzen | Pink Flag | - |
| KSU | Lowdown | CS |
| Kustomized | Surgeon's Girl | 7" |
| Lightning Seeds | Outdoor Miner | CD |
| Luna | Outdoor Miner | CD |
| Lush | Outdoor Miner | CD |
| Manic Hispanic | 12XU | - |
| Meat Puppets | Outdoor Miner | CS 2nd gen |
| Mercer USA | The 15th | - |
| Minor Threat | 12XU | CD |
| Miss Murgatroid | Used To | CD |
| Roy Montgomery | Used To | - |
| Moose | Kidney Bingos | - |
| Mr. Blonde | Outdoor Miner | - |
| My Life Story | Outdoor Miner | - |
| Naked Raygun | 12XU | - |
| New Bomb Turks | Mr Suit | CD |
| Out Out | 40 Versions | - |
| Passion Killers | Reuters | - |
| Pink Lincolns | Ex-Lion Tamer | 7" |
| Pluck Theatre | Outdoor Miner | - |
| Political Asylum | The 15th | - |
| R. E. M. | Strange | CD |
| Red Zoo | 5 / 10 | - |
| Henry Rollins | Ex-Lion Tamer | CD |
| Ruth's Refrigerator | Outdoor Miner | - |
| Salem 66 | Fragile | - |
| Scrawl | Reuters | - |
| Second Wind | Mr Suit | - |
| Serious Drinking | 12XU | - |
| Slingbacks | Outdoor Miner | CD |
| Spiny Anteaters | Lowdown | - |
| Sorry | Ex-Lion Tamer | - |
| Soulside | Ex-Lion Tamer | - |
| Splash Four | Ex-Lion Tamer | - |
| Spoke | Ahead | CS copy |
| Stigmata A Go Go | Outdoor Miner | - |
| That Petrol Emotion | Mannequin | - |
| Therapy? | Reuters | CD |
| This Colossal Hill Figure | Love Ain't Polite | - |
| U2 | Mannequin | - |
| Yo La Tengo | Too Late | CD |
| Pro-Seed | (Wir) Naked, Whooping, And Such-Like | CD |
| This Mortal Coil | (Colin Newman) Not Me | CD |
| This Mortal Coil | (Colin Newman) Alone | CD |
| Elastica | Connection (= Three Girl Rhumba) | CD |
| 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