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A.V. Undercover 2011 - Help pick the songs!

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ImRonBurgundy?:
The A.V. Club is running their Undercover series again this year, and they're soliciting suggestions for the songs you want to hear and the bands you want to see cover them. If you're not familiar, the way Undercover works is the A.V. Club puts together a list of 25 songs, and have 25 bands come in to cover them. Whenever a band chooses a song, it's stricken from the list, meaning that each subsequent artist has a smaller pool to choose from, until the last band has to tackle whatever the last song is that's left. Here are the videos from the 2010 edition, to see it in action.

The first part of the questionnaire is selections from lists of song candidates that the A.V. Club has picked themselves, but the real meat is in the last two sections, where you suggest three songs of your own, and then three bands you'd like to see in the videos. I chose:

Songs:
Kate Bush, "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)"
The Germs, "Manimal"
Funkadelic, "Hit It and Quit It"

Bands:
Reigning Sound
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Nobunny

Get to pickin': http://www.avclub.com/articles/undercover-2011-help-us-pick-the-songs,49658/

StaedlerMars:
Monster by Kanye West
Club Can't Handle Me by Flo-rida
Don't Fucking Tell Me What To Do by Robyn

Bear In Heaven
PS I Love You
Tweak Bird

Kai:
I totally missed this happening last year, I guess? It's a pretty nifty concept.

Songs:
the Circle Jerks - Paid Vacation
Big Black - Racer X
Patti Smith - Rock N' Roll Nigger

Bands:
The Melvins
Yo La Tengo
Swans

valley_parade:
Dog Kai Japandroids did Racer X as a b-side to Art Czars. It was pretty sick.

JimmyJazz:
Songs:

White Light, White Heat - The Velvet Underground
Hit It and Quit It - Funkadelic
Heroes - David Bowie

Bands:
Nobunny
Swans
LCD Soundsystem

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