Coverville might be my heaven. I’m listening to Aretha Franklin’s cover of “Eleanor Rigby” until my ears implode, and thus, it’s good to know that Coverville has me, um, covered with Joe Jackson’s version of the song once I’m done with Aretha.
Blame it on the lack of sleep.
via JC
It’s good to knoew someone out there doesn’t sleep either.
;->
Blue
Strange— that was going to be part 3 of the disc trilogy, entitled “Cover Me, Don’t Cover Me,” a joke which has been done to death but since R.E.M.’s on the compilation (doing “Toys in the Attic” by Aerosmith) maybe they won’t mind.
You can never go wrong with a cover song, especially if it’s strange or rare.
Interesting stuff. Of course, this all proves that covering the Smiths well is damn near impossible. No one can play like Johnny Marr and no one can sing like Morrissey.
Amanda: Unless you go off in a different direction. The High Llamas transformed “Frankly, Mr. Shankly” from an up-tempo jaunt to a kind of melancholy, slowed-down late 60s Beach Boys kind of sound.
I agree with Norbizness. I love covers if they take it to a new direction. Cake’s “I Will Survive” is one of my all-time favs.
I just discovered Coverville last week. Yes, it’s great fun. And speaking of Podcasts, I really enjoyed the one episode of “The Dawn and Drew Show” I heard.
True–I do love creative covers.
I also, notoriously, like getting drunk at Me First and the Gimme Gimmes shows.