Reel Big Fish Discography - Cover Songs

Cover Songs

Reel Big Fish are well known for their cover songs (so much so that their former label, Jive Records, chose to promote the album We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy with stickers on the CD jewel case proclaiming that the album included "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" and "Story of My Life"; both covers) and frequently end live shows with their cover of a-ha's 1985 hit "Take on Me". Reel Big Fish released their first studio album composed only of cover songs, entitled Fame, Fortune and Fornication, in January 2009.

Although the band are known to play a variety of other songs live regularly, this is a comprehensive, roughly chronological list of all known cover songs officially recorded by Reel Big Fish.

• "Take on Me" (originally by a-ha) featured on the BASEketball Soundtrack, Teen Beef, the Sold Out EP, Viva La Internet, Samba De Amigo, Why Do They Rock So Hard?, Favorite Noise, Our Live Album is Better Than Your Live Album, The Best Songs We Never Wrote and released as a CD single. An instrumental version of the song also exists.
• "Unity" (originally by Operation Ivy) featured on the Keep Your Receipt EP, Take Warning: The Songs of Operation Ivy, Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album (DVD), Viva La Internet and The Best Songs We Never Wrote.
• "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame" (originally from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific") featured on Vacationing in Palm Springs, Viva La Internet and the UK Where Have You Been? CD single.
• "Hungry Like The Wolf" (originally by Duran Duran) featured on the Sold Out EP, Why do They Rock So Hard, The Duran Duran Tribute Album and Viva La Internet.
• "Kiss Me Deadly" (originally by Lita Ford) featured on Viva La Internet, Cheer Up!, Our Live Album is Better Than Your Live Album and The Best Songs We Never Wrote.
• "Gigantic" (originally by the Pixies) featured on Viva La Internet and Where Is My Mind?.
• "Uniform of Destruction" (originally by Suburban Rhythm) featured on Viva La Internet and Runnin' Naked Thru the Cornfield.
• "Mele Kalikimaka" (originally by Robert Anderson) featured on Viva La Internet.
• "Love Boat" (theme tune of television show The Love Boat) featured on Viva La Internet.
• "Boys Don't Cry" (originally by The Cure) featured on Viva La Internet, Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album and The Best Songs We Never Wrote.
• "Ska Sucks" (originally by Propagandhi) featured on Viva La Internet.
• "Boss DJ" (originally by Sublime) featured on Viva La Internet, Cheer Up! and The Best Songs We Never Wrote.
• "Main Street Electrical Parade" (a cover of "Electric Fanfare" and "Baroque Hoedown" from Disneyland's Main Street Electrical Parade) featured on Dive into Disney.
• "New York, New York" (popularly by Frank Sinatra) featured on Cheer Up!.
• "Rock It With I" (originally by The Melodians) featured on Cheer Up!.
• "Give It To Me" (originally by The J. Geils Band) featured on Cheer Up! and The Best Songs We Never Wrote.
• "Dance Wid Me" (originally by Hepcat) featured on The Show Must Go Off! Reel Big Fish Live at the House of Blues DVD.
• "So Lonely" (originally by The Police) featured on The Show Must Go Off! DVD.
• "Monkey Man" (originally by Toots & the Maytals) featured on The Wild Thornberrys Movie Soundtrack, Fame, Fortune and Fornication and The Best Songs We Never Wrote.
• "It's Not Easy" (originally from the Walt Disney animated film Pete's Dragon) featured on Mosh Pit On Disney and Duet All Night Long.
• "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful" (originally by Morrissey) featured on We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy and The Best Songs We Never Wrote.
• "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" (originally by Tracy Chapman) featured on We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy and Our Live Album is Better Than Your Live Album.
• "Story of My Life" (originally by Social Distortion) featured on We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy.
• "Stray Cat Strut" (originally by The Stray Cats) featured on Go Cat Go! A Tribute to Stray Cats and The Best Songs We Never Wrote.
• "We Close Our Eyes" (originally by Oingo Boingo) featured on Dead Bands Party: A Tribute to Oingo Boingo and The Best Songs We Never Wrote.
• "Ask" (originally by The Smiths) featured on Duet All Night Long.
• "Lyin' Ass Bitch" (originally by Fishbone) featured on Duet All Night Long.
• "Another Day in Paradise" (originally by Phil Collins) featured on Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps For Free and The Best Songs We Never Wrote.
• "Nothin' But a Good Time" (originally by Poison) featured on Fame, Fortune and Fornication and The Best Songs We Never Wrote.
• "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" (originally by Slade) featured on Fame, Fortune and Fornication.
• "Veronica Sawyer" (originally by Edna's Goldfish) featured on Fame, Fortune and Fornication and The Best Songs We Never Wrote.
• "Authority Song" (originally by John Mellencamp) featured on Fame, Fortune and Fornication.
• "Brown Eyed Girl" (originally by Van Morrison) featured on Fame, Fortune and Fornication and The Best Songs We Never Wrote.
• "The Long Run" (originally by The Eagles) featured on Fame, Fortune and Fornication.
• "Won't Back Down" (originally by Tom Petty) featured on Fame, Fortune and Fornication.
• "Keep a Cool Head" (originally by Desmond Dekker) featured on Fame, Fortune and Fornication.
• "Talk Dirty to Me" (originally by Poison) featured on Fame, Fortune and Fornication and The Best Songs We Never Wrote.
• "Twist and Crawl" (originally by The English Beat) featured on Fame, Fortune and Fornication (bonus track only available on the vinyl album or via download).
• "Don't Let Me Down Gently" (originally by The Wonder Stuff) featured on Candy Coated Fury.
• "The Promise" (originally by When in Rome) featured on Candy Coated Fury.