Guess who's going to the Robyn show in May? ME! Guess who's glad it isn't a Girls Aloud show instead? Me again! I'm also the one who wishes she could coax any of her singer-type guy friends to videotape themselves covering Robyn songs and add them to YouTube. Like this:
Ah, gothy, industrial techno! Dammit if you still don't hold a place in my (16-year-old) heart!
Dear dorky, chubby white guys who make crazy homemade jams like this: Keep on keepin' on, my brothers.
My favorite '60s cult movie, Wild in the Streets, has been on cable a lot recently and I watch it each time. This prompted me to grab the first cover of this track I had at the ready. Sadly, this is not by the gay Mormon brothers from the reality TV show and is, instead, by a Virginian prog metal outfit. Or maybe that's for the best, really.
This is the chick who wrote Fesit's hit, "1234."
Admittedly, the prospect of listening to a bluesy, experimental, instrumental all-Neil-Young covers album from Canada didn't excite me. But I have to admit it's pretty interesting. It wouldn't be my cup of tea most days, but it suited me just fine tonight.
I have to admit that, as much as I mock them and their seemingly endless permeation into my consciousness, string quartet tributes sometimes aren't all that bad. Or maybe they are but I just get in the mood for bad stuff more frequently than most. All things are possible.
I'm kind of in a Tinyfolk phase. All of their covers delight me.
This comes from an album called Butchering the Beatles, but honestly? It gets a lot worse than this.
6 comments:
I'm glad you like our covers so much! Anything specific you'd like to hear us do? I can't promise anything (sometimes my fingers just don't seem to want to play certain songs, i'm not really that technically proficient) but I'd like to try!
You always make me seem so much more cool then I am .. A client walked in why the music was playing ..
This was a great pick me up
Thanks
killer post! thanks.
What is this Robyn famous for?
Tinyfolk- You seem to be picking good covers on your own!
Forest- I'm not sure what you're driving at (i.e. are you honestly curious or are you insulting my taste?), but Robyn is a Swedish dance/pop singer. She used to be more on an R&B bent, but her latest album is a quirky hip-hop influenced record that is all the rage with indie blogger types like myself.
Speaking of the Dirtbombs' Eno cover, there's a cover of the cover over on WFMU's Beware of the Blog performed by their own Maria Levitsky, resplendent in pillbox hat.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/04/16-maria-levits.html
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