Someone wrote in [personal profile] arib 2007-02-21 11:30 pm (UTC)

Covers

I'm a big fan of inventive cover songs.

Off the top of my head, since I'm not at home at the moment, I have (and recommend):

  • "Bizarre Love Triangle", New Order covered by Frente
  • I'm Your Fan, an album of covers of Leonard Cohen songs
  • "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", the Eminem track, redone by Tori Amos... which is, let's just say....iiiinteresting
  • Various stuff by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
  • That erstwhile theme song "Spiderman", covered by the Ramones
  • "Gone Baby Gone", the Violent Femmes song covered by Gnarls Barkley
  • "Cactus", the Pixies covered by David Bowie
  • "Big Mouth Strikes Again", the Smiths, covered in ... I want to say Estonian by a band who's name I can't remember. I dunno. They were on NPR once. It's probably the cover most like the original on this list.
  • "About a Girl", by Cibo Matto


A little further off the rock/pop beaten track:

  • I find Weird Al's polka medleys of covers amusing, but I can see how that might not be for everyone.
  • "Seven Nation Army" covered by Nostalgia 77
  • "My Favorite Things" by Coltrane, but the Dave Brubeck Quartet version isn't bad, either
  • "Linus and Lucy" by the Wynton Marsalis Septet
  • Various Radiohead tracks on piano by Christopher O'Riley
  • "Shine" (that Collective Soul song) as covered by Dolly Parton, which to me is everything a cover should be -- it's good even if you haven't heard another version and it's distinctively unique, but after hearing it you listen differently to the original, too.
  • "Rodeohead" (another parody medley) by Hard 'n' Phirm


-Howard

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