You’re nobody in the rap game these days until some rock type has covered your ass. Korn frontman Jonathan Davis and his friends The SFA (that’s The Simply Fucking Amazings, not Super Furry Animals, unfortch) have tackled Lil Wayne’s “Got Money”, and made the elemental mistake of pronouncing the “t” in “Got”. Schoolboy error from Davis there - for future ref Jonno, it should be croak-slurred “gah”. Welcome.
Check out the cover version for yourself over the page.
If you enjoyed Nouvelle Vague’s covers of new wave classics rendered in a bossanova style, you are going to love the shit out the album Hollywood, Mon Amour. It’s been put together by the same chap, Marc Collin, and features vocalists such as creamy-larynxed ex-Morcheeba singer Skye and “New Soul” chanteuse Yael Naim. Hollywood, Mon Amour basically takes songs made famous by 1980s movies and gives them the Nouvelle Vague treatment. So it opens with a version of Blondie’s “Call Me” - from American Gigolo - and then goes onto “Eye Of The Tiger” from Rocky III.
Using maths, we can therefore work out that this album contains more goodness in its opening two salvos than the entire recorded output of, say, The Enemy.
I love this version of Neil Young’s song, to the extent that the original just makes me impatient for the plinky-plink-plink-plinky of Saint Etienne’s cover. I’d never seen the video until just now, and-
Oh my God. Sarah Cracknell in the shower.
Bon Iver have received a decent amount of coverage round these parts, but this is a Toilet debut for Bowerbirds, who have been a favourite of Shiny Shiny’s Susi for quite a while now. See what you reckon - there’s a whole lot of high-pitched crooning in the house…
Did you hear Hot Chip’s cover of Wiley’s massive summer chooon “Wearing My Rolex”, which they performed at Radio 1 recently?
Well, if not, here they are doing it at Glasto with the man himself - who decides to pep things up with a few “Oggy Oggy Oggy”s. And they never fail to go down well, as you shall see ‘pon clicking below.
The new Portishead album has had pretty much across-the-board five star reviews, but went down worse than any album ever when I played it in the office. I’m not going to judge it on that though. Portishead don’t really do “whistle while you work” material.
Radiohead (or Thom and Jonny, at least) covered one of the stand-out tracks from Third, “The Rip” while in St Louis. It’s just Thom, Jonny and a couple of acoustic guitars. Be-a-utiful. See it over the page.
Even in these days when everyone seems to be covering everyone else, one act’s material you don’t encounter much is The Stone Roses’. Is it because they’re too sacred? Or has everyone forgotten about them?
As far as Americans are concerned, it’s more likely to be down to the fact that they’ve never heard of them. Indie darlings turned chart-toppers Death Cab For Cutie have done their bit to remedy that, by covering the opening track from The Stone Roses’ eponymous debut.
How has this video passed me by? Oh right, I suppose I need to watch MTV more. Well, as far as Jacko covers go this is alright I think - no irony involved, thankfully… in the song, that is.
The video’s a different matter, with Buster from Arrested Development, Turk from Scrubs, John Mayer and lord knows who else making appearances. Of course, like most Fall Out Boy vids, Pete Wentz’s eternal fart-sniffing pout steals the show. Oh, and congrats on the nuptuals Petey - I trust your expression remained the same throughout the ceremony?
I maintain that there’s something cult-like about Alphabeat. I don’t mean as in cult interest, but as in severe side partings and white smocks. There’s just something so wholesome about them that it tips over into eeriness. And you know what? I like it.
Here we find the intrepid Danes covering one of Daft Punk’s finest moments, and not destroying it. In fairness it would be hard to ruin such a nigh-on perfect pop happening. You can hear a recorded version over the page, or you can click here for a rather splendid acoustic guitar n’ tambourine rendering. They’ll be doing Kum Ba Ya soon, you watch.
I’ll tell ya, that bloody Sad Kermit will get you every time. He’s done Johnny Cash’s version of “Hurt”, among others, and now he’s covering Elliott Smith, who passed away a few years back.
This is “Needle In The Hay”, which you might recognise from The Royal Tenenbaums. Truly, a meditation on heroin addiction only comes into its own when tackled by a green felt frog. A lot of YouTube commenters have got predictably hot under the collar over this cover, but I’m a huge Elliott Smith fan and found it funny. I mean come on, it’s a muppet playing a sad song on the guitar.
This is the last of today’s Muppet-related posts, honest…
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