Here is a whole record of great covers, as played by the under reported Gemma Ray.

bass is putting on a clinic.

"Lovesick Fuck" by Mura Masa is a great melody line with a crappy arrangement.

This rendition gets it right a hundred times.

Probably my favorite Misfits cover:

Two great Dylan covers. Bruce Springsteen's I Want You:


and Van Morrison's Just Like A Woman:

This one. It's so perfect.



It's fitting to me that Mercury Rev covers this. I simultaneously find this piece of music innocent, creepy, and incredibly fucking sexy. Every time I hear it i imagine myself undressing a woman, cuz I'm a creep.

Lou Reed’s cover of “This Magic Moment”.

Lou takes what is, for my money, one of the most soaringly beautiful love songs ever recorded (with regard to the Drifters recording, not the Jay and the Americans version) and turns it into something sinister — and I honestly don’t know whether it was intentional, or whether that’s just how everything innately sounds when filtered through Lou.

On the theme of covers I love because of how joyously they disembowel the original, I’m also partial to the Jesus and Mary Chain cover of Prince’s “Alphabet Street” — though on this count, I think the intentionality of the disembowelment is probably not in question.

Holy shit someone looped "The Big Ship" for 10 hours.



Someone else slowed it down.



Forgot about making this video for "The Big Ship" using footage from Teletubbies a decade ago, on the University of California's budget.