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The Best Covers

chaz
Joined: December 09, 2002 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: The Best Covers May 06, 2009 at 08:32 PM UTC #
Anyone remember the "best remixes" thread???
Samantha
Joined: August 30, 2002 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: The Best Covers May 06, 2009 at 08:39 PM UTC #
Yeah, it's a retelling of a classic story, there's lots of Stagger/Stack/Stag-o Lee songs.  I think it's supposed to be based on other writings but it's still mostly original.  I believe.  I mean, show me another version of Nick Cave's Stagger Lee, and prove me wrong…

It's kind of like calling Johnny Cash's Delia a cover.
skeeter
Joined: May 29, 2003 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: The Best Covers May 06, 2009 at 09:08 PM UTC #
This is an interesting covers cd:

"Don't Know When I'll be Back Again"
http://exoticfever.com/music.php?task=showrelease&id=6

Death Cab, Beauty Pill, Ted Leo, Enon and a bunch of others covering Vietnam-era classic rock tracks.
callat703
Joined: May 25, 2005 at 05:01 AM UTC
Posts: 1710
Re: The Best Covers May 06, 2009 at 09:13 PM UTC #
Bombay wrote:
Death Cab, Beauty Pill, Ted Leo, Enon and a bunch of others covering Vietnam-era classic rock tracks.


The Death Cab cover is pretty interesting - "Fortunate Son."  I wouldn't have expected Ben Gibbard to be able to pull it off….and it turns out he didn't.  Sean Nelson from Harvey Danger fronts the band.  Sort of a "meh" version, but an interesting idea, if nothing else.

http://hypem.com/#/track/484664/Death+Cab+For+Cutie-Cover,+Fortunate+Son
chaz
Joined: December 09, 2002 at 06:01 AM UTC
Posts: 5111
Re: The Best Covers May 06, 2009 at 09:14 PM UTC #
sweetcell wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagger_Lee

Yeah i read the same article….

guess it's not really a cover…but i really want a redux of the remix thread so lets fight about it.

It is too a cover.  You'll never convince me otherwise.
nkotb
Joined: August 15, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
Posts: 6500
Re: The Best Covers May 06, 2009 at 09:16 PM UTC #
Death Cab doing "Fortunate Son"?  Ugh.

[EDIT] Just listened thanks to callat's link.  Whew…at least they didn't let Gibbard sing it.  That song needs BALLS, not a singer that sounds like he was born without them.

Bombay wrote:
This is an interesting covers cd:

"Don't Know When I'll be Back Again"
http://exoticfever.com/music.php?task=showrelease&id=6

Death Cab, Beauty Pill, Ted Leo, Enon and a bunch of others covering Vietnam-era classic rock tracks.
walkonby
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Re: The Best Covers May 06, 2009 at 11:53 PM UTC #
everybody knows the best cover of all time is dinosaur jr doing quicksand.  and a close second is sinead doing prince's nothing compares to u, followed by the clash's i fought the law.
edbert
Joined: October 08, 2002 at 05:01 AM UTC
Posts: 586
Re: The Best Covers May 07, 2009 at 01:13 PM UTC #
http://coverville.com/
sweetcell
Joined: July 18, 2006 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: The Best Covers September 13, 2011 at 08:11 PM UTC #
dunno if this is the best cover, but it is easily the funniest i've heard in a long while:

Jeff Tweedy performs the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3PRmu0tr6k
James Ford
Joined: July 22, 2009 at 09:02 PM UTC
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Re: The Best Covers September 13, 2011 at 08:17 PM UTC #
If only their new album were half as good as that cover…

sweetcell wrote:
dunno if this is the best cover, but it is easily the funniest i've heard in a long while:

Jeff Tweedy performs the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3PRmu0tr6k
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