Comments on: Out I Never Did Figure It

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:52:37 +0000

I enjoy the cover of “The Sign” by The Mountain Goats — look for the live version with commentary and audience sing-along. Whoo boy.

By: Evil Timmy

Evil Timmy — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:11:48 +0000

Nina Gordon’s cover of Straight Outta Compton is top-notch: http://ninagordon.com/media (bottom left).

While not my favorite cover ever (that going to Ben Folds’ beautiful and excellent cover of Bitches Ain’t Shit), I’d definitely give a nod to Adam Rixey’s suggestion. Jonathan Coulton has put out some great stuff, and that cover of Baby Got Back is no exception. And, as a bonus, do yourself a favor and get more versions of it. Richard Cheese covers it (and much more), and so does a thrash band called Throwdown.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:40:21 +0000

Oh… almost forgot. A great resource for searching out covers from a favourite artist, or covers of a favourite song is the Covers Project.

http://www.coversproject.com/

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:34:18 +0000

The Warren Zevon tribute, “Enjoy Every Sandwich” was worth getting to hear The Wallfowers do “Lawyers, Guns, and Money”. Adam Sandler also did a very respectable job on “Werewolves of London”.

And the Tom Jones/Cardigans cover of “Buring Down the House” blew me a away. (YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vh3SmpAcVg)

By: Jack Snipe

Jack Snipe — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:08:40 +0000

Also, speaking of online Tribute albums, I also contributed a couple of songs to a Marcy Playground tribute:

2004:
http://www.vulcandeathgrip.com/shapeshiftercentral/bands/1/

2005:
http://www.vulcandeathgrip.com/shapeshiftercentral/bands/2/

hint: I DIDN’T cover “Sex and Candy.” Scroll down to “the Whippoorwill”

Jack

By: Jack Snipe

Jack Snipe — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:00:06 +0000

http://www.gimmegimmes.com

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Nuf said.

Jack

By: Will C

Will C — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:48:28 +0000

Red Right Hand you say? You might enjoy Frank Bennett’s extremely good lounge cover of that song. It’s on the album Five O’Clock Shadow (which also features a lounge Under The Bridge which is worth the price of the album alone) which features extremely well done lounge covers and originals from the late 90s.

Cibo Matto’s “About a Girl” is something else as well.

By: Paul Herzberg

Paul Herzberg — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:30:04 +0000

Q Magazine had a couple of cover-mounted CD recently that were all covers. As always there was a high dross factor, but there were also some real gems, including:

Franz Ferdinand doing What You Waiting For (if only for the singer’s reading of “take a chance you stupid ho” and the way they suddenly start doing “white Wedding” towards the end)
Sugababes doing I bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor (much better than you’d think)
Editors with a not too different but somehow ballsier Orange Crush
And a fantastic oddly mournful Disco 2000 by Nick Cave

Jack Johnson does something to 3 (Is A Magic Number), though, that makes me despise him and all he stands for…

And if it is not too “hipper than thou” to mention a local band (legends though they are), then Los Torpedos’ polka-y version of In A Gadda Da Vida would be a world-wide smash if anyone outside of Austria had heard of them. Check it out:

http://www.thebigeasy.at/lostorpedos/files/listen.htm

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:02:02 +0000

Oh, and Biftek’s version of “Wired for Sound” – excellent

By: Spencer Lewis

Spencer Lewis — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:01:53 +0000

You should check out Brandon Shott’s cover of Perfect Candidate on Look What the Fans Drug In. Sufjan Stevenesque and wonderful. This cover takes the song and expands on it – and is wonderful in its own right.