our favorite coverversion of a song...
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 3:42 pm
Squirrel Bait's take on Phil Ochs' "Tape from California" comes to mind.
As does Pussy Galore's "Yu Gung" by Einsturzende Neubauten.
Make-Up's version of "Hey Joe" constitutes the only way I get through that song anymore.
I really like the version of "Two of Us" from that I Am Sam movie, not that it's better than the original, but the new version hits me with the same impact as the original, which can only help illustrate how good the Beatles really were.
On another note, Trent Reznor once recorded a totally soulless cover of Joy Division's Dead Souls. I think that this was a choice of good selection and terrible iteration, and it helped to template today's crap industrial metal.
Speaking of emo rap metal spindie rock, any time anyone takes a cover song and "pumps" it up, humanity drops another fraction of a degree in karma.
I also fucking hate that Sixpence None the Richer band. If anybody knows what that name means, let me know. They've taken one of the best pop songs written in the past 30 years and totally punk'd it, dudes.
No, but seriously, that La's song, "There She Goes," the s/t record it is on is a pop masterpiece, go own it if you don't, and for some reason every sorority girl knows the Sexpinch Done the Ditcher version and sings it everytime it comes on the jukebox or inbetween sets at the sensitive singer songwriter shows, or on fucking KAROAKE.
One of Richard Butler's bands (Love Spit Love? dunno) does a version of "How Soon Is Now" by the Smiths and it ain't bad, but I think it's like the Beatles entry above.
Of course, every Jesus Lizard cover is amazing, except for "Chrome" which is amazinger.
I hear there's a pretty good Don Cab cover band playing now, too.
As does Pussy Galore's "Yu Gung" by Einsturzende Neubauten.
Make-Up's version of "Hey Joe" constitutes the only way I get through that song anymore.
I really like the version of "Two of Us" from that I Am Sam movie, not that it's better than the original, but the new version hits me with the same impact as the original, which can only help illustrate how good the Beatles really were.
On another note, Trent Reznor once recorded a totally soulless cover of Joy Division's Dead Souls. I think that this was a choice of good selection and terrible iteration, and it helped to template today's crap industrial metal.
Speaking of emo rap metal spindie rock, any time anyone takes a cover song and "pumps" it up, humanity drops another fraction of a degree in karma.
I also fucking hate that Sixpence None the Richer band. If anybody knows what that name means, let me know. They've taken one of the best pop songs written in the past 30 years and totally punk'd it, dudes.
No, but seriously, that La's song, "There She Goes," the s/t record it is on is a pop masterpiece, go own it if you don't, and for some reason every sorority girl knows the Sexpinch Done the Ditcher version and sings it everytime it comes on the jukebox or inbetween sets at the sensitive singer songwriter shows, or on fucking KAROAKE.
One of Richard Butler's bands (Love Spit Love? dunno) does a version of "How Soon Is Now" by the Smiths and it ain't bad, but I think it's like the Beatles entry above.
Of course, every Jesus Lizard cover is amazing, except for "Chrome" which is amazinger.
I hear there's a pretty good Don Cab cover band playing now, too.