I loved these threads when they came up a few years back... lots of entertaining pro- and anti- ranting. Anyone heard some doozies (doozies??) recently?
Arcade Fire covering Talking Heads' Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place). OK, probably pretty hard to enjoy a cover of one of your favourite songs ever EVER.
Wavering:
Yeah, not just the vocals... Tortoise & Bonnie Prince Billy covering Elton John's Daniel. Points for making it sound like Suicide or something and nothing like any of Elton John, Tortoise or Bonnie Prince Billy. Minus as many points for going on for ages and lacking either a hypnotic listen-forever-happily vibe or decent pop dynamics.
Hopefully cool:
Junior Boys cover Sinatra on their upcoming album. Supposedly beatless shimmeriness.
Oh, RECENTLY no, I haven't heard anything apart from a fairly good cover of Alice Cooper's 'Clones (We're All)' on the radio- I've spent the last five minutes trying to track down the name of the band, but I got nothin... it wasn't the Pumpkin's version either, it sounded quite recent. FWIW, the Pumpkin's version is still very cool, better actually.
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Poo: Arcade Fire covering Talking ...
Poo:
Arcade Fire covering Talking Heads' Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place). OK, probably pretty hard to enjoy a cover of one of your favourite songs ever EVER.
Wavering:
Yeah, not just the vocals... Tortoise & Bonnie Prince Billy covering Elton John's Daniel. Points for making it sound like Suicide or something and nothing like any of Elton John, Tortoise or Bonnie Prince Billy. Minus as many points for going on for ages and lacking either a hypnotic listen-forever-happily vibe or decent pop dynamics.
Hopefully cool:
Junior Boys cover Sinatra on their upcoming album. Supposedly beatless shimmeriness.
Cop Marcus Miller's take on "Burning ...
Cop Marcus Miller's take on "Burning down the House".
I would like to use the word OWNS here but I still don't know what it means.
I love the Arcade Fire's version of ...
I love the Arcade Fire's version of 'Maps' by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
I love the original too though.
//I love the Arcade Fire's version of ...
//I love the Arcade Fire's version of 'Maps' by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Oooh! I never knew such a thing existed, must download.
Poo: I hate that version of Mad World ...
Poo: I hate that version of Mad World by whatsizface...
Wicked: I have always loved G'n'Rs version of 'Live & Let Die'
Oh, RECENTLY no, I haven't heard ...
Oh, RECENTLY no, I haven't heard anything apart from a fairly good cover of Alice Cooper's 'Clones (We're All)' on the radio- I've spent the last five minutes trying to track down the name of the band, but I got nothin... it wasn't the Pumpkin's version either, it sounded quite recent. FWIW, the Pumpkin's version is still very cool, better actually.
You know what, it just might have been ...
You know what, it just might have been Alice's version I heard... ;-)
worst, but still the best: ...
worst, but still the best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi2CfuqcUGE
best and the best: The entire album by "Sun Kil Moon", an album of Modest Mouse covers done by Mark Kozelek.
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you cant compare that to ...
you cant compare that to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkMWdI2IKiw&search=final%20countdown
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quality....
quality.
Any cover that involves whiteware has ...
Any cover that involves whiteware has to be class. Pity about the crack though.
[ http://www.devilducky.com/media/27260/ ]
A classical pianist covering ...
A classical pianist covering Radiohead's 'Paranoid Android'. Worth a listen if you know the original, I reckon.
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