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The Makeover - Black Water (Timber Timbre cover)
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Adele - Lovesong (The Cure cover)
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January 2011
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December 2010
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Versions of Joanna →
Tumblr being down meant this blog kinda drifted outta my consciousness. Um, while I get back on the cover search, here’s a great Oxfam initiative that Simon brought to my attention. An album full of Joanna Newsom cover songs (ft. Billy Bragg and M. Ward among others) to benefit Pakistan flood relief!
November 2010
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Also, Spinner.ca has a good round-up of George... →
In honour of George Harrison, a re-blog:
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Yim Yames - My Sweet Lord
Source material: George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
One of my favourite singers covers my favourite Beatle. Forgive me, I’m having an emo sort of morning. This is as faithful a George Harrison cover as covers can get. My Morning Jacket’s Jim James (as his soloist alter Yim Yames) takes the band’s usual reverb and applies it to George Harrison’s...
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Cee-Lo on the importance of cover songs:
I got super lucky when my editor at Exclaim asked me to sit down with Cee-Lo on Monday evening. I tried to cover wide terrain in our chat: The Lady Killer, Goodie Mob reunion (it’s happening!) and, of course, cover songs. Cee-Lo’s been covered by everyone from Ray LaMontagne to Gwyneth Paltrow (not linking to that travesty though), and has done his share of covering (Band of Horses...
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Who did the better Portishead "The Rip" cover?
Radiohead - The Rip (Portishead cover)
I guess the leading group on this post should be UK’s The Bees. They just put out a cover of one of my favourite Portishead songs that’s a lot more robust than this Thom Yorke/Johnny Greenwood backstage-take, which appeared shortly after Portishead released Third. What I like about it is that Thom seems to be reading lyrics while he plays;...
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One of the best Radiohead covers/remixes ever...
Osunlade & Erro - Everything In Its Right Place (Radiohead cover)
After posting that shiteous Robyn cover of Prince, we need to get back into a Friday state of mind. If you don’t know Osunlade, pleasssse familiarize. More a rework than a cover, Osunlade’s “Everything In Its Right Place” is probably one of the best pieces of music ever made for simultaneous...
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Diamond Rings covers another tall person, model...
Diamond Rings - Gentleman Who Fell (Milla Jovovich cover)
Was randomly clicking through Diamond Rings videos for a story I finished up recently when I came across this Milla Jovovich cover. The furthest I’d invested into the career of the model/actress (remember The Fifth Element? SOOOOO 90s GOOD) was a barebones understanding of her musical career, meaning I knew she’d...
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WatchFor fun: Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young Ft. Bruce Springsteen - Whip My Hair
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Ellie covers Elton: "Your Song"
Ellie Goulding - Your Song (Elton John cover)
Isn’t Elton John the shit? I love how he’s still hanging around, like some endearing schmaltzy uncle, hanging out with Justin Timberlake, showing up on the Kanye West album. “Your Song” is an Elton Classic and reminds me of childhood car drives through the British countryside. Ellie Goulding’s cover is a bit distanced...
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Twin Shadow wants to cover Maxwell's cover of Kate...
This is Twin Shadow, a BK musician who creates moody, retro synth-pop music and recently played a sold-out show in Toronto. Wondering what someone with a million different musical references liked in terms of covers (if he even liked them at all), I thought I’d ask. Turns out, he couldn’t pinpoint his favourite cover song off the top of his head, but I think his choice of an ideal...
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Bodies of Water cover Magnetic Fields
Bodies of Water - I Don’t Believe In The Sun (Magnetic Fields cover)
This Magnetic Fields cover by L.A. girl-boy duo Bodies of Water is nice and minimal and quasi-lullaby-ish; perfect to ease you into Monday morning. Listen closely for the faint, shivering electric organ in the background, which makes it’s way up top halfway through. Oh yeah, that’s nice.
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The only Beyonce cover that matters, by Reba...
Reba McEntire - If I Were A Boy (Beyonce cover)
DIVAS COVERING DIVAS. I have a friend who loves Reba down to her (still-running) sitcom, and who also loves Beyonce, and I think his mind will be blown by this. This cover is all about concept, why wouldn’t Reba McEntire cover the ‘Yonce?
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Aaliyah cover by The Gossip: "Are You That...
The Gossip - Are You That Somebody (Aaliyah cover)
I think kids/girls of a certain generation and cultural context grew up idolizing Aaliyah and everything she represented; class and coolness, style, youth, beauty. Considering the impact she had when she was around, I’m surprised some type of Tupac/Biggie-style revival hasn’t happened yet. Is she too revered? Was she too young?...
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Nina Simone cover: "Four Women" at BET's "Black...
Four ridiculously amazing singers—Kelly Price, Marcia Ambrosius, Ledisi and one of my lifelong faves, Jill Scott—do beautiful justice to Nina Simone’s legendary story-song, “Four Women.” The original deserves so much more than just a link, so please watch below if you’re not familiar. Also, Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek did an inspired re-work with “For Women on...
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What happened to Glasvegas?
Glasvegas - Be My Baby (Ronettes cover)
OMG, I didn’t even realize that my 2008 favourite band (Glasvegas) is like the future version of my 2010 favourite band (The XX)! Isn’t the resemblance kinda uncanny? All black everything, weird goth-greaser vibe, one really tall lanky dude, an androgynous female band member? I guess the only difference is that Glasvegas is Scottish.
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Fleetwood Mac cover by The Morning Benders
The Morning Benders - Dreams (Fleetwood Mac cover)
California beach pop takes on California beach pop from another time and dimension!! “Dreams” is my favourite Fleetwood Mac song and The Morning Benders distill the lo-fi discotheque of the pop classic into a loud-whisper lullaby (but a cute mouse!) acoustic hum-along-er. :)
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Celebrate Wayne's release with a Swedish cover!
jj - My Life (The Game Ft. Lil Wayne cover)
Okay, so technically it’s not an actual Lil Wayne cover since the song belongs to one of my favourite first-album wonders, The Game. But the focus here isn’t on raps but Lil Wayne’s suicidal chorus. This cover is one of the best things I’ve heard over the past year, something I play every couple of days especially when...
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WatchI will push Cee-lo forever because I represent Dungeon Fam, or at least until he gets annoying like B.E.P. God willing that day will never come. Here’s Captain Kirk, William Shatner, covering “Fuck You.” (Thanks to Kavi for the heads up!)
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Cee-lo covers Kings of Leon "Radioactive"
Cee-lo - Radioactive (Kings of Leon cover)
Thanks Cee-lo for reclaiming “Radioactive” for the peeps after K.O.L. filmed that crazy, kinda weird (raciste?) video of them playing the neu-spiritual amongst a bunch of picnicking black folk. Oh yeah, totes just remembered why I was on a sorta K.O.L.-boycott. Anyway, Cee-lo’s cover is less rollicky and more grown-up, and you can...
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The Suzan - Animal (Miike Snow cover)
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T-Pain butchers Michael Jackson with "PYT" cover...
T-Pain & Robin Thicke - P.Y.T. (Michael Jackson cover)
Not sold on this insane-with-the-vocoder cover of PYT by T-Pain and Robin Thicke for the Quincy Jones tribute album Q: Soul Bossa Nostra. Regardless, it’s still interesting to hear and I’m sure if I had access to a vocoder I would record covers of all my favourite songs, but like a robot. How cool would it have been if...
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Amy Winehouse returns with "It's My Party" cover
Amy Winehouse - It’s My Party (Lesley Gore cover)
Did you know there are more cracked out photos of Amy Winehouse on Google Images than normal ones? It’s pretty unfortunate that she’s been reduced to a punchline, since I still listen to both of her albums on the regular along with the decent amount of covers that she’s put out. And, despite being shitfaced, her...
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Warpaint - Ashes To Ashes (David Bowie cover)
Warpaint’s amazing new album The Fool came out last week, but ahead of that came this cool David Bowie cover for a tribute album with proceeds going to War Child. I love Warpaint not only because they sound amazing live, but because they make really atmospheric music—the kind of stuff that sounds funneled and filtered and fizzled...
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Yim Yames - My Sweet Lord
Source material: George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
One of my favourite singers covers my favourite Beatle. Forgive me, I’m having an emo sort of morning. This is as faithful a George Harrison cover as covers can get. My Morning Jacket’s Jim James (as his soloist alter Yim Yames) takes the band’s usual reverb and applies it to George...
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Fiona Apple - Across The Universe
Source: The Beatles - Across The Universe
Because (and I’m just gonna say it), it’s one of those days.
Because this song and this video rule.
Because she has a new album coming out in the spring.
Because people like her used to win MTV Awards. Because she used that platform to say something.
Because Fiona Forever.
October 2010
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Seu Jorge - Rebel Rebel
Source material: David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
HELLO! I love David Bowie. He is both hilarious and magical and musical and smart and I love and respect this combination so much. Here is one of my other favourite musicians, Brasilian Seu Jorge, with a cover of David Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel.” Recorded as part of an alternate soundtrack for The Life Aquatic...
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My Morning Jacket - West End Girls
Source material: Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
I’ve always liked the beginning of this Pet Shop Boys song because it’s so cinematic. Anyway, those guys up there? FAV BAND STATUS. Like seriously, I would marry Jim James in a heartbeat not only because he can jam the fuck out, but because he has this wicked R&B sensibility that makes My...