Artist	Song
Aimee Mann	One [Harry Nilsson]
Joss Stone	Fell In Love With A Boy [The White Stripes]
Maxwell	This Woman's Work [Kate Bush]
Stereophonics	Nothing Compares 2U [Sinead O'Connor]
Emiliana Torrini	Sounds Of Silence [Simon & Garfunkel]
Ani DiFranco & Aimee Mann	When Doves Cry [Prince]
Peaches	Gay Bar [Electric Six]
The Bens	I Touch Myself [Divinyls]
Indigo Girls	Mrs. Robinson [Simon & Garfunkel]
Sarah McLachlan	Solsbury Hill [Peter Gabriel]
Nelly Furtado	Crazy [Gnarls Barkley]
KT Tunstall	I Want You Back [Jackson 5]
The Lemonheads	How Will I Know [Whitney Houston]
Bright Eyes	Mushaboom [Feist]
Ben Gibbard	Complicated [Avril Lavigne]
Ryan Adams	Like A Virgin [Madonna]
Counting Crows	Crazy For You [Madonna]
Dar Williams feat. Ani DiFranco	Comfortably Numb [Pink Floyd]
Rufus Wainwright	Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered [Standard / Lorenz Hart & Richard Rogers]
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[May 2007] A follow up to my first genderswap covers mix.

01. I've not heard the original or seen Magnolia (this was the opening track?), this song is on here because it's one of my favourites that happens to be a cover.
02. Eh. I'm not a huge fan of Ms. Stone, but I cannot deny that this is ridiculously funky. (But I still much prefer the franticness of the original.) Still, Amy Winehouse does the white-girl-sounds-black thing better.
03. A really good cover. Maxwell's vocals are gorgeous, but. But, I don't get the emotional reaction from this I do from Kate's. Where we had a female artist exploring the gender dynamic, and singing from a male point-of-view re: (difficult) childbirth and the relationship that comes with that (and the fact that his partner might end up dying and all), we get a somewhat striaghtforward rendition that comes off as kinda emotionally schmaltzy and bland, no matter how pretty it sounds.
05. The original is one of my favourite songs, and ET does it justice. Her voice is haunting, and flute-like (like Vienna Teng), beautifully controlled.
09. Love. This and the original. Almost identical, but that's no bad thing.
10. See above. (What? Peter Gabriel is cool. Well, the "Sledgehammer" video is.)
12. I was shocked by how good this is. I don't find KT Tunstall a particularly interesting artist, but wow. Acoustic, but dead funky and full of energy. Her cover of Missy Eliott's "Get Ur Freak On" is even better.
13. Evan Dando gets a billion plus points for trying his hardest to not change pronouns.
15. No covers!mix is complete without at least one by Gibbard.
16. Continuing with the ironic pop covers. "Gonna give you all my love boy, my fear's fading fast, I know I married Sean Penn, but don't count that against me - I got a really nice ass." I LOVE THIS MAN.
17. A not-so ironic pop cover by Ryan's mate Adam Duritz. Lovely.
18. Very, very similar to the original. A decent cover, methinks, but hardcore Floyd fans might disagree.
19. Perfect.

And once again I manage to omit Patti Smith's cover of "Gloria". Maybe next time.

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