Artist	Song
Noel Gallagher & Chris Martin	Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before [live] (Oxfam/Make Trade Fair Charity Concert at the Astoria, London, 2002)
Muse	Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (Feeling Good/Hypermusic [single], 2001)
Pete Yorn	Panic [live] (For Nancy [single]. 2002)
Everything But The Girl	Back To The Old House (Old Friends [single], 1991)
Barenaked Ladies	Still Ill [live] (The Ultrasound Showbar, Toronto, 1991)
Placebo	Bigmouth Strikes Again (Sleeping With Ghosts [special edition], 2003)
J Mascis	The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (Martin + Me, 1996)
Mojo Nixon	Girlfriend In A Coma (Whereabouts Unknown, 1995)
Face To Face	What Difference Does It Make? (Standards & Practices, 2001)
Treepeople	Bigmouth Strikes Again (Something Vicious For Tomorrow/Timewhore, 1992)
The Dream Academy	Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (Somewhere In The Sun: Best Of The Dream Academy, 2000)
Billy Bragg	Jeane [live] (Reaching To The Converted, 1999)
Supergrass	Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (The Smiths Is Dead [compilation], 1996)
Snake River Conspiracy	How Soon Is Now? (Sonic Jihad, 2000)
Belle and Sebastian	The Boy With the Thorn In His Side [live] (Barrowlands, Glasgow, 2001)
The Ocean Blue	There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Peace And Light [single], 1993)
Josh Rouse & Kurt Wagner	Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (Chelsea [EP], 1999)
The Frank And Walters	Cemetry Gates (The Smiths Is Dead [compilation], 1996)
Jeff Buckley	The Boy With The Thorn In His Side [live] (Meltdown Festival, London, 1995)
Anthrax	London ("Airheads" Original Soundtrack Album, 1994)
Slapshot	Bigmouth Strikes Again (16 Valve Hate, 1996)
Deftones	Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (B-Sides And Rarities, 2005)
Braid	This Charming Man (Movie Music, Vol. 2, 2000)

Comment:

An extension of my (now really quite unhealthy) Smiths obsession - this is a collection of covers of my very favourite band's songs, whose variety, I think, just goes to prove their influence - I mean, their songs appealed to Belle and Sebastian, Anthrax and everyone in between. Unfortunately, this selection isn't comprehensive and there are some great covers which I haven't been able to get hold of, like Duncan Sheik's version of Reel Around The Fountain, or Badly Drawn Boy doing Oscillate Wildly, among others - by the way, if you know of good Smiths covers then please do tell me! :) This explains the repetitiveness a little, for which I apologise, but some songs, ESPECIALLY Please Please..., do seem to have a lot of cover appeal.

The highlights on this are, in my opinion, the interesting Frank & Walters cover, the cute Braid one, the Supergrass track - it's really, really excellent and is complete with a fade out-in at the end, and the tracks by EBTG and Face To Face - the latter especially does the original justice. The best of the "repeats" are (of Boy With The Thorn...) the Jeff Buckley version, of Bigmouth... the Placebo, and I like the Muse version of Please Please.... But enough over-analysis; hopefully I can improve this by getting a hold of some more covers. Meanwhile, though, hooray for The Smiths!

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