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Songs remade or covered by TMBG or any of its solo projects.

Covers featured on studio releases

• 1999 (Prince)
• The Ballad Of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space) (parody of 'The Ballad of Davy Crockett')
• Bills, Bills, Bills (Destiny's Child)
• Caroline, No (The Beach Boys)
• Concrete And Clay (Unit 4 + 2)
• The Devil Went Down To Newport (The Clamdiggers)
• Don't Break The Heart (Amy Rigby)
• Dr. Kildare (The Skatalites, who themselves covered the Dr. Kildare TV theme)
• The Guitar (started as a jam of The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight")
• Hello Hello (Gary Glitter)
• Hillbilly Drummer Girl (Young Fresh Fellows)
• I Enjoy Being A Boy (The Banana Splits)
• I Never Go To Work ("old British music hall ditty")
• I Hear A New World (Joe Meek and the Blue Men)
• I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar (Jonathan Richman)
• I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You (Tommy Dorsey)
• I'm A Little Airplane (Jonathan Richman)
• In The Middle, In The Middle, In The Middle (Vic Mizzy)
• Indiana Wants Me (R. Dean Taylor)
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (The Four Lads)
• It Was A Very Good Year (parody of "It Was a Very Good Year" by Frank Sinatra, written by Ervin Drake)
• Jessica (The Allman Brothers Band)
• Lady Is A Tramp (Frank Sinatra)
• Lines Upon A Tranquil Brow (Walt Kelly)
• Maybe I Know (Lesley Gore)
• Mosh Momken Abadon (Riad al-Sunbat)
• New York City (cub)
• Oddball (Frank Black)
• O Tannenbaum (traditional)
• Pretty Fly (written by Davis Grubb with music by Walter Schumann, from The Night of the Hunter)
• Santa Claus (The Sonics)
• Starry Eyes (The Records)
• Tubthumping (Chumbawamba)
• Up The Junction (Squeeze)
• Walking My Cat Named Dog (Norma Tanega)
• We've Got A World That Swings (Lil Mattis and Lois Yule Brown)
• What Is A Shooting Star? (Tom Glazer, written by Hy Zaret And Lou Singer)
• Whirlpool (Meat Puppets)
• Why Does The Sun Shine? (Tom Glazer, written by Hy Zaret And Lou Singer)
• Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May? (written by James J. Walker and Ernest Ball)
• Yeh Yeh (Georgie Fame)

Covers recorded for compilations and soundtracks

• 25 O'Clock (XTC as "The Dukes Of Stratosphear")
• Agent Double-0-Soul (Edwin Starr)
• Baroque Hoedown (Jean Jacques-Perrey)
• Butcher's Tale (The Zombies)
• Darlin' Allison (Gordon Gano)
• Dog On Fire (Bob Mould, recorded by TMBG as "The Daily Show Theme")
• Havalina (Pixies)
• The Long Grift (Stephen Trask for Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
• One More Parade (Phil Ochs)
• Ram On (Paul McCartney)
• Savoy Truffle (The Beatles)
• Starry Eyes (The Records)
• There's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (The Sherman Brothers)
• Through Being Cool (Devo)
• Tippecanoe And Tyler Too (Campaign song)
• You Are Old, Father William (poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in his novel "Alice in Wonderland")

Songs exclusively covered live

• A Fine Day (Edward Barton)
• Auld Lang Syne (traditional Scottish song)
• Baba O'Riley (The Who)
• Back In Black (AC/DC)
• Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Rodgers and Hart)
• Born To Run And Fail (Bruce Springsteen parody)
• The Boys Are Back In Town (Thin Lizzy)
• Can't You See (Marshall Tucker Band)
• Chandelier (Sia, as part of "Particle Man")
• Cherry Pie (Warrant)
• Crazy Train (Ozzy Osbourne)
• Dominique (Sister Luc-Gabrielle)
• Don't Break The Heart (Amy Rigby)
• Elvira (The Oak Ridge Boys)
• Fire (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
• Frankenstein (Edgar Winter Group)
• Free Ride (Edgar Winter Group)
• Free To Be You And Me (The New Seekers)
• Gas Mask (Gas Mask)
• Georgy Girl (The Seekers)
• Girls Can't Do What The Guys Do (Betty Wright)
• Gone To The Moon (Jonathan King)
• Here You Come Again (Dolly Parton)
• Hocus Pocus (Focus)
• Honky Cat (Elton John)
• A Horse With No Name (America)
• I Could Write A Book (Rodgers and Hart)
• I Love To Sing (Bob Lind)
• I Wanna Be Sedated (The Ramones)
• In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly)
• The Joker (Steve Miller Band)
• The Kids Are Alright (The Who)
• Kumbaya (Campfire song)
• Make It Easy On Yourself (Burt Bacharach)
• Mirage (Tommy James, this was mentioned by John Flansburgh as an early cover, no known recordings)
• Mr. Tambourine Man (Bob Dylan)
• My Funny Valentine (Rodgers and Hart)
• Nice 'N' Easy (Frank Sinatra)
• The People's Court Theme (Loose cover of "The Big One" by Alan Tew, popularized as the theme for the show The People's Court)
• Pictures Of Matchstick Men - Dream Medley (Status Quo & The Everly Brothers)
• Runaway (Del Shannon)
• Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
• So What (Miles Davis)
• Stayin' Alive (The Bee Gees)
• The Sign (Ace of Base - part of a medley with "Particle Man")
• Taking Care Of Business (Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
• Theme From Dallas (Jerrold Immel, performed by TMBG on the 2004 tour as Corn Mo's walk-on music and setlist-marked as 'Corn Mo Dallas')
• Theme From Rocky Bob Conti
• Theme From The Monkees (The Monkees)
• This Land Is Your Land (Woodie Guthrie)
• Thriller (Michael Jackson)
• To All The Girls I've Loved Before (Willie Nelson & Julio Iglesias)
• Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Bonnie Tyler - part of a medley with "Particle Man")
• We Are The World (USA for Africa)
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? (The Monkees)
• With A Little Help From My Friends (The Beatles, but TMBG parodied the Joe Cocker version)
• Yellow Submarine (The Beatles)
• You Were Always On My Mind (Willie Nelson)
• Zilch (The Monkees)

As part of the State Songs project

• California Über Alles (Dead Kennedys)
• Lincoln, Nebraska (Bruce Springsteen)
• Maryland My Maryland (lyrics by James Ryder Randall)
• North To Alaska (Johnny Horton)
• Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young)

Others

• America's Most Wanted Theme
• Don't Worry Kyoko (Yoko Ono)
• The Next Plane To London (The Rose Garden)
• Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Donovan)
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? (The Monkees)
• Whence That Wince (Walt Kelly)

See also

• Covers
• Four Covers From TMBG
• References To Other Songs Or Musicians
• Stumpbox - A bootleg of covers performed by TMBG

External links

• TMBG at The Covers Project