Music?

[arib]

Lately I've been going on a music kick, focusing on covers.

Any recommendations?

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[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

The Divinyl's I Touch Myself performed by a Belgian girls' choir?

[ckd]

How about the same song, but performed by Rolf Harris?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Just last night, I was told of a podcast, "Coverville," that's all about covers. I can't tell you much more beyond that, alas.

[ckd]

Some of my favorite cover albums:

• "Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs" (The Beautiful South), particularly "Don't Fear The Reaper" and "Livin' Thing"
• "Medusa" (Annie Lennox)
• "Acoustic" (Everything But The Girl) [part covers], particularly "Alison" and "Downtown Train"
• "I Am Sam" soundtrack (Various Artists), particularly "Two of Us" (Aimee Mann & Michael Penn)
• "The Transformed Man" (William Shatner) [just kidding]

Individual covers I'm particularly fond of include Eva Cassidy "Fields of Gold", Dar Williams "Comfortably Numb", 10,000 Maniacs "Peace Train", Sheryl Crow "Behind Blue Eyes", Edie Brickell & New Bohemians "A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall", The Housemartins "Caravan of Love", Alanis Morissette "Crazy" and "King of Pain", Thea Gilmore "Crazy Love" and "Ever Fallen In Love", The Communards "Don't Leave Me This Way", The Corrs "Dreams" and "Everybody Hurts", Indigo Girls "Get Together", Jeff Buckley "Hallelujah", Katie Melua "Just Like Heaven", Michael Andrews & Gary Jules "Mad World", Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros "Redemption Song", Aimee Mann "The Scientist", and Beth Orton "Wild World".

Can you tell I like covers?

Covers

[(Anonymous)]

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