So since the Coup is about to splinter for a bit, how about a friendly music question on this night - the last for a bit when we'll all be in town. Last week Julian Sanchez had a post up asking his readers for their favorite covers. So tonight's question is - What are yours? I guess a key qualification here should be that the cover should be better than the original. There are a lot of covers that are quite enjoyable, but part of that might stem from them being from great or fun songs to begin with (personal favorites of mine that pop to mind in this vein include The Pixies doing Head On, Failure doing Enjoy the Silence, Iron and Wine doing Such Great Heights, and covers of various Human League songs by Stars, Future Bible Heroes, The 6ths/Lloyd Cole and The Aluminum Group). So without straining your memory too hard - what covers do you REALLY like? As for me, two favorites mentioned in Sanchez's comments are Joan Jett doing Crimson & Clover and Travis doing Hit Me Baby One More Time. I'm also really high on Rufus Wainwright's Hallelujah.
Posted by armand at July 3, 2007 10:55 PM | TrackBack | Posted to MusicWell, the Drive by Truckers cover of People Who Died is a-fucking-mazing. I also really like Marisa Monte's version of Pale Blue Eyes. We also have some oldies on our list of lists. Damn, I need to do something about that zine.
Posted by: binky at July 4, 2007 10:49 AM | PERMALINKHa - I'd forgotten about that topic having been covered there.
Posted by: Armand at July 4, 2007 11:24 AM | PERMALINKJust off the top of my head, I've got Buckley's Hallelujah, Cake doing I Will Survive, and Johnny Cash with both Hurt and Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Posted by: moon at July 5, 2007 09:50 AM | PERMALINKWow, how did I not think of Cake's I Will Survive? I love that too. And of course I like Hurt a ton too, but then I liked the original of that far more than I liked the original of I Will Survive.
Posted by: Armand at July 5, 2007 10:43 AM | PERMALINKthe thing with hurt is that cash's version both betrays the juvenile angstiness of the lyrics that the soundscape sort of buries in the original, and still somehow pulls it off. johnny cash sings high school suicide poetry in a minor key. the man could have sung the sound of paint drying toward the end of his life, and i'd have been captivated.
Posted by: moon at July 9, 2007 11:53 AM | PERMALINK