coyote23

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Member Since: 11/20/2001
Total Mixes: 57
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MP3 Playlist | Theme - Cover Songs
MP3 Playlist | Theme - Cover Songs
CD | Alternative - Indie Rock
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CD | Theme

It's Fun To Steal: TMBG Covers The Classics

Artist Song
They Might Be Giants  Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Four Lads) 
They Might Be Giants  The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) (Tokens) 
Mono Puff  Hello Hello (Gary Glitter) 
Mono Puff  The Devil Went Down to Newport (Totally Rocking) (Clamdiggers) 
They Might Be Giants  New York City (Cub) 
They Might Be Giants  Whirlpool (Meat Puppets) 
They Might Be Giants  Yeh Yeh (Georgie Fame) 
They Might Be Giants  I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You (Tommy Dorsey) 
Mono Puff  Don't Break The Heart (Amy Rigby) 
They Might Be Giants  Maybe I Know (Leslie Gore) 
They Might Be Giants  We've Got A World That Swings (Mel Torme) 
They Might Be Giants  Lady Is A Tramp (Rogers & Hart) 
They Might Be Giants  Jessica (Allman Bros.) 
Mono Puff  Dr. Kildare (Jerry Goldsmith) 
They Might Be Giants  Darlin' Allison (Gordon Gano) 
They Might Be Giants  Santa Claus (The Sonics) 
They Might Be Giants  Why Does The Sun Shine (Singer & Zaret) 
They Might Be Giants  In the Middle, in the Middle, in the Middle (Vic Mizzy) 
Mono Puff  Pretty Fly (Schumann & Bourne) 
They Might Be Giants  One More Parade (Phil Ochs) 
They Might Be Giants  Ram On (Paul McCartney) 
They Might Be Giants  Savoy Truffle (Beatles) 
They Might Be Giants  Yellow Submarine (Live) (Beatles) 
Mono Puff  Hillbilly Drummer Girl (Young Fresh Fellows) 
Mono Puff  Oddball (Frank Black) 
They Might Be Giants  Concrete and Clay (Unit 4+2) 
They Might Be Giants  25 O'Clock (XTC) 
They Might Be Giants  Butchers Tale (Live) (Zombies) 

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A complete and unabridged compilation of every officially-released cover version that TMBG and Flansy's side band Mono Puff have released, which conveniently fit perfectly on an 80-minute CD. Who doesn't love a good cover tune?
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I'm a huge, huge TMBG fan and this was a really good idea. You forgot one, though: "O Tannenbaum." I also might have thrown on "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" (live, with vocoder) if I had room. Now then, where did you get that incredible cover shot?
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coyote23
Date: 4/10/2003
vinz clortho: actually, i considered 'o tannenbaum' but passed it over because it isn't so much a cover as it is a version of a traditional song (i know, that's splitting hairs, but if anything was going to be cut for time, it was that.) and i couldn't find 'to all the girls i've loved before' anywhere, otherwise that would have gone on too.
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Modnar
Date: 4/10/2003
Verily doth that cover art be whack, yo.

And as long as we're splitting hairs, I thought 'Darlin' Alison' was a song Gordon Gano wrote for TMBG to play on the sountrack of that movie, so is that still a cover?

Regardless of stupid fools with nits to pick, tis a rockin' good mix, sir.
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joey de vivre
Date: 4/10/2003
That covers it! This has got to be a joy to listen to.
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quadb
Date: 4/10/2003
This is fabulous! And that has got to be one of the all-time best covers AOTM has ever seen!!
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goovie
Date: 4/10/2003
awesome.
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Eric Schmuckler
Date: 4/10/2003
fantastic! who doesn't love a good cover? care to trade?
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Moe
Date: 4/10/2003
Excellent. I never knew that these guys were such a prolific covers band.
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abangaku
Date: 5/21/2008
wow... i was just looking up all the single-artist TMBG mixes there were on this site and i found this... this is awesome!! i especially love the Phil Ochs cover, and certain props for including The Guitar as a cover, too. does 25 O'Clock really work as anything except an opening track...??forget that. this is awesome!!(and... plenty of great material for a sequel now i suppose too... their "cover" of It Was A Pretty Good Year is one of the wickedest covers i've ever fookin' heard!)