Take Cover!

August 29, 2007

No, it’s not an earthquake, so get out from under that table. I just have a bunch of awesome covers that I’m going to disperse among you. I decided it’s been a while since I posted any covers (the last time I did a “take cover!”, Arrested Development was still on the air) and I have a few good ones I’ve been holding onto for too long.

MP3 Ben Kweller – Today (Smashing Pumpkins Cover)
Ben Kweller picked the perfect Smashing Pumpkins to cover, it totally matches his style. The piano that echoes the riff at the beginning is a lovely addition.

MP3 Girls in Hawaii – Blizzard of ‘77 (Nada Surf Cover)
This acoustic cover of one of my favorite Nada Surf songs benefits from the boy/girl harmony on the vocals. The band doing the cover is actually from the very untropical locale, Belgium.

MP3 Queens of the Stone Age – Christian Brother (Elliott Smith Cover)
Seems like an odd pairing but the Queens do a great job of covering this early Elliott Smith track. It’s amazing how much Josh Homme’s voice sounds like Smith.

MP3 Arctic Monkeys – You Know I’m No Good (Amy Winehouse Cover)
What better way to encourage Amy to stop her drug addiction as her in-laws would like, than to stop buying her records and downloading covers of her songs instead.

MP3 Feist – Nothing In The World Can Stop Me Worrying About That Girl (Kinks Cover)
Not only does Feist earn points for covering a Kinks song, but it’s a Kinks song that is in my favorite film (Rushmore) and she does it with style and grace (even though she modestly claims to have screwed it up). That has to rank about an M8 on the Richter Scale of Awesomeness.

Posted by Taylor in Covers