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steve_hamster

My Favorite Cover: "The Preposition Song"

May 09, 2005 18:41

Once again, I'm stealing Nate's subject for my own. His last post concerned cover songs (and a rant about stupid mp3 software). Liz can list a lot of cover songs, and I used to be a generally big fan of covers, but I have become either more discerning or more cynical in my tastes. Anyway, it seems like the true test of a cover is whether or not ( Read more... )

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spearofsolomon May 10 2005, 02:55:29 UTC

Did you hear that Flaming Lips cover yet?

Now that you mention Sesame Street I have to think of Furry Happy People. And Ray Charles singing the alphabet song.

Songs I would cover . . .

I'd like to do a cover of Radiohead's "Creep" with an electric harp. The harmonies would be ethereal. A roaring baritone would sing the verses in Spanish, and a boys' choir would join him for five-part harmony on the chorus. To get the string-slap sound just before the chorus, the harpist would grab a handful of strings and let them fly against a board.

I also would like to hear U2 do a full-blown, Edge-echoey version of Concrete Blonde's Joey. It already sounds like a watery cover of a U2 song.

And I think the world is also just teetering on the brink of happiness, if only we could get a good piano ballad version of Wild Horses.

steve_hamster May 11 2005, 15:03:40 UTC

"Creep" would be a good one. My preference would be to strip down one of their later songs, but that sounds like an interesting take on it.

I haven't heard the Flaming Lips cover yet, but there's a Shins cover of a Postal Service song (We Will Become Silhouettes, maybe) that's pretty cool. I guess that's sort of the inversion of a Flaming Lips cover of a White Stripes song.

Don't judge a band by it's cover liznitch May 10 2005, 05:16:48 UTC

I think I'd cover The Kinks' Lola to Menola just... because.

But seriously...

I'd like to see System of a Down do Barenaked Ladies' If I Had a Million Dollars.

Re: Don't judge a band by it's cover spearofsolomon May 11 2005, 02:33:52 UTC

I saw that one time. It was nice but I wish the sound had been turned on.

Re: Don't judge a band by it's cover steve_hamster May 12 2005, 05:55:27 UTC

System of a Down always seemed like such a rage-inflected band, but If I Had a Million Dollars never seemed all that ragey. I shall have to ponder this.