Don't be so sure of that. There is a demographic out there that does not read plot descriptions. My very religious MiL bought a copy of Brokeback Mountain for her fundamentalist homophobe boyfriend because quote: "It's a movie about cowboys. He loves the old west."

I hope this works out. Courtney Love is a head case, but Hole is a great fucking band. It's sort of how I despise Axl Rose, but if he hit the road with Slash, Duff, and Izzy I would be all over a real G 'n' R show.

I wrote the bit about there being a religious element to it as a follow up to:

There was a massive cry for specifically boycotting the Winter Olympics in Russia because it was a high profile/prestige event, associated with ideals of fairness, unity, and equality. The fact that many Olympians are gay was probably a factor as well.

I'm sure that if any of those backwater hell holes somehow managed to land an Olympics, you would see just as many if not more boycotts.

Freddy's Revenge is Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and if you had seen it…yeah it's about as subtle as a bag of really gay hammers.

To the Christian whack job, they are LEGION, and they are sucking up whatever of your tax dollars are left over after the government pays for all those abortions, heroin needles, and welfare for secret Muslim illegal aliens.

You've been hanging with the wrong atheists. Those crazy motherfuckers in Africa with their child soldiers, anti-homosexuality laws, etc are typically held up as examples of the batshit extremes that Christianity left unchecked can go to.

Most of the Atheists I know rip into Islam with just as much intensity. The reason why things like Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, etc usually get a pass is that those religions (Hare Krishnas aside) tend to be pretty good about leaving everyone else the fuck alone. And a number of them don't even do the passive…

Note: A lot of commenters don't seem to realize the list if of artists whose "BEST KNOWN" songs were covers.

Considering their relative obscurity, I've always been struck by the weird number of Tommy James and the Shondells song that have been covered and become reasonable to huge hits: I Think We're Alone Now (Tiffany), Mony Mony (Billy Idol), Crimson and Clover (Joan Jett). Also, both Morcheeba and Concrete Blonde covered…

I feel that the shitty shitty melodrama Crash is all the worse for sharing a name with the vastly superior Cronenberg film.

Similarly to my Concrete Blonde suggestion, I would be happy with just about any Tom Waits song. Though I think I Hope That I…is a bit too standard a ballad. It's an absolutely great ballad, but I can't help but think that the Undercover version would end up being almost painfully twee.

Quark? I guess that would be in keeping with the obvious tongue in cheek tone of the article, but I think rebooting Red Dwarf would be fucking awesome.

Agreed.

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love

Tom Waits - "Tango 'Til They're Sore"

Wham! - "Careless Whisper"

Concrete Blonde (Originally Andy Prieboy) - "Tomorrow Wendy"

Smith, at least has a point. Most of The Cure's output is astoundingly perky. They have the look, and most of Disintegration leans on the darker side, but you can't really tell me that Love Cats, Sorry Wrong Number, Friday I'm In Love, or even Fascination Street aren't really Goth. Outstanding tunes one and all?…