Don't Think Twice, It's All Right :: Think About Me

And if you're gonna think twice....make one of'um about me. (but keep it to yourself unless its like worshipping kind of thinking) The Decemberists get their Mac on...

Sounds Like: Billy Bragg covers The Three Degrees

Man...I've been doing a lot of cover listening this week... Love his voice....one of those that immediately turns back the clock...

Obscure covers: the Phenomenauts

Casting about for new music to listen to I came across the Phenomenauts, and the description sounded all right (something like "pop-punk with some synths"), and sure enough, they're pretty fun (and unlike so many pop-punk bands, they don't sound like whiny teenagers). The track list for their album,...

Sounds Like: Kaiser Chiefs cover...ummm...Marvin Gaye?

I guess? If I read correctly...Marvin was the first to actual release the track? If'n I'm wrong....I'm sure one of you smarty pants will fix it/make it all better... This is one of those albums I've had forever and this popped during a Party....shuffle session...

Sounds Like: The Black Ghosts cover Olivia Newton John

Liking this version...but doubt they can sport the leggings as well as she did.

Empty Chairs & Their Seduction

See more photos tagged: I *heart* Chairs! Covers The Strange and the Seductive clipped from reasonableminds.wordpress.com I’ve only had time to read a few of this year’s poems so far, but I did turn quickly to the poem that won the 2006 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. Congratulations to Robert W....

Best covers ever

I was just listening to the CBC, not sure which show, but they were talking about the best cover songs ever, and their top choice was Youssou N'dour covering Bob Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom." Just thought I'd share, since it really is awesome, awesome, awesome.

Tears for What Was Done

clipped from www.abc.net.au Artworks Lyndal Jones: Darwin with Tears Charles Darwin's book on sexual selection, Descent of Man, has inspired an exhibition called 'Darwin With Tears' at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. It's a survey show of thirty years' work by the pioneering...

Stealth covers of covers; or covers of stealth covers?

Back in December I posted Moondog's "Bird's Lament," one of those tunes that is so natural it feels like you've known it forever, even the first time you hear it: Listening to Quantic Soul Orchestra's Pushin' On this evening, "Bird's Lament" came out of the speakers, but over a deep funk breakbeat...

Cover Me!

First, it's Paramore (USA) Being covered by Parallel Parking (Philippines) Next, it's Rhianna (US) being covered by...everyone and their mother!

Unlikely covers 2

What could be as unlikely as a disco/southern rock cover of a Yardbirds song? How about an 80s electro cover of a Bad Company song? I've been wanting to hear Jenny Burton's cover of "Rock Steady" again since the 80s, but I've never managed to connect with a copy of the record, or even an mp3, until...

NGV International - Surrounds & Abstracts

Just some abstracts taken from the surrounds of the NGV. The (first one uploaded for "Today's abstracts") is taken of a building behind the NGV, combined with another of a large sign adorning building wall, and composite pic made of the two. See more images tagged Abstract Photography I *heart*...

Covers

Went out to Karaoke the other day with Yu-ching and Michelle. Near the end of our time their, the two mentioned wanting to hear the original of a cover song that they had on their recent trip to Taiwan. Yu-Ching mentioned that it was a Southern All Stars song, so I put in the song below and this was...

Unlikely covers

A few days ago Jeff was looking for an unlikely cover of a disco song; that reminded me of something I came across last year, a disco cover of an unlikely song. Yardbirds disco, anyone? If that's not weird enough, the chorus turns into southern rock! (At around 2:20)-- The recorded version is...

Kate Voegele - Hallelujah

Distribution Deal Covers Nano-Products

Alio Industries will be the sales distributor for Kohzu products in the Americas, while Kohzu will distribute Alio's nano-precision products and systems in Japan and other Asian markets. Alio Industries will be the sales distributor for Kohzu products in the Americas, while Kohzu will distribute...

Yesterday

It is unusual for me to prefer a cover version to the original, but Marvin Gaye's take on "Yesterday" is just excellent. His performance seems so easy and simple, with his sound clear and mellow. The strings (which tend to be over-used in popular music) seem to fit in here with the sparse twanging...

The Iggy Pop-Peter Murphy connection redux

Several weeks ago I wrote about Iggy Pop and Peter Murphy sounding nearly the same; just yesterday I discovered the live radio performances that Peter Murphy and Trent Reznor gave during the joint Nine Inch Nails/Bauhaus tour of 2006. Lo and behold, they did an Iggy Pop cover: And to pile on the...

S Convergence: Sakamoto, Satie, Stewart, Sylvian

Item 1: Mrs. Veneer buys Ryuichi Sakamoto's CD of solo piano pieces, BTTB. It's quite beautiful and Sakamoto mostly avoids the New Age clichés that plague so many piano CDs. Some of the pieces are obvious homages to classical works, such as "Opus," which evokes the Gymnopédies of Erik Satie: Item...

Sounds Like: Jeppe covers Fine Young Cannibals

LOVE this! Jeppe of Junior Senior (read somewhere he's the Senior) covers Fine Young Canniables' Johnny Come Home and its awesome! Read somewhere (probably same somewhere from above...heh) that it reminded the author of a bit of Kurt from Tears for Fears...and I gotta agree. Great late 80s/early 90s...