Other Mixes By tjarrett
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Alternative - College Rock
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Alternative - College Rock
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Mixed Genre
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Mixed Genre
cool covers
Artist | Song | |
William S. Burroughs | "Going along with someone else's song" | |
Joss Stone | Fell In Love with a Boy | |
Chappaquiddick Skyline | Leave Me Alone | |
Flunk | Blue Monday | |
Iron & Wine | Such Great Heights | |
Bill Cosby | "Covers saved my life" | |
They Might Be Giants | Savoy Truffle | |
Low | Long Long Long | |
Galaxie 500 | Isn't It a Pity | |
Nirvana | Here She Comes Now | |
Big Star | Femme Fatale | |
Low | Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me | |
Pedro the Lion | Let Down [live] | |
The Strokes | Clampdown | |
Ivy | Let's Go to Bed | |
Bill Cosby | "Greatest Protestants Ever" | |
Manic Steet Preachers | Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head | |
Low | Open Arms | |
The Postal Service | Against All Odds | |
Red House Painters | I Am a Rock | |
Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet | God Only Knows | |
Comment:
The concept here was to find covers that worked as well as the original versions--or far far worse in a few cases. The Burroughs track is from the first few seconds of his collaboration with REM on "Star Me Kitten" from the X-Files Soundtrack album. Joss Stone reimagines the White Stripes' "Fell In Love with a Girl" as blue-eyed soul. Chappaquiddick Skyline and Flunk cover two of my favorite New Order songs, the former with typical Joe Pernice intensity, the latter with the slightly surreal English pronunciations of a Scandanavian artist. Then Iron & Wine's cover of the Postal Service's "Such Great Heights" rounds out the first set.Bill Cosby introduces the next set with a clip from his "Cool Covers," which also gives the name to the track. There follows a trifecta of George Harrison covers, including the ridiculous TMBG version of Savoy Truffle and Low's even-slower-than-the-original rendition of "Long Long Long." A twofer of Velvet Underground covers, with Nirvana's unreleased snarl at "Here She Comes Now" contrasted with Alex Chilton's barely conscious reading of "Femme Fatale," and this section is rounded out with a grab bag: Low's intense take on the Smiths, Pedro the Lion's faithful reading of Radiohead, the Strokes' romp through the Clash, and Ivy's sexy take on the Cure.
Another Cos soundbite, about faking along with all the folks singing the hymns in church, introduces the goofy covers sequence: Burt Bacharach, Journey, and Phil Collins, anyone? Finally a pair of more serious covers: Red House Painters' re-reading of Simon & Garfunkel is a minor masterpiece, and Elvis Costello's reading (with the Brodsky Quartet) of the Beach Boys' masterpiece is pretty damn masterful in its own right.
Feedback:
Cool! Lots of good stuff here...
great work!
Always good to see a fine covers mix on the site, like this one. Thanks for the comments too.