Category: Covers
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Luke Combs & Tracy Chapman sing Fast Car at the Grammys
I was looking for this the day after the 2024 Grammys, because the short clips I found were amazing. Now posted in full a few hours ago – the joy on Tracy Chapman‘s face as the whole crowd go nuts at the start of that repeating riff, the back and forth with Luke Combs like…
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Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill in Early Middle English
English is a funny one, we think of it now as what is spoken either in the US or UK or indeed International English, but there was a long journey to get there, from Germanic and later French influences, and I think Norse. Here you have Kate Bush‘s Running Up That Hill in Early Middle…
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Micky Dolenz saves Shiny Happy People
Shiny Happy People is a song that even R.E.M. has disowned, so to hear Michael Stipe – the band are happy to wear their Monkees influences on their sleeves – praise this cover by Micky Dolenz is high praise indeed. And yes it works in the frame of the Monkees psych bubblegum pop, and there’s…
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Kinsey Sicks – April / Sound of Sirens
Discover the hilarious and politically charged work of Kinsey Sicks, a long-time podcast feature with a new video for their dragapella parody “April Sat On My Master’s Face” and a timely retelling of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Sound of Silence” for the current state of the world.
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If American Idiot Was A Bro Country Song
At the time I kind of liked American Idiot by Green Day but the band put me off…but in the years since I”ve realised how talented Billie-Joe Armstrong is and how it’s a very clever song. On the 6th of January this year, Alex Melton did a ‘Bro Country’ version of American Idiot as a…
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PNK Stylophonic Giftshop
Usually I get into new music and bands through covers then check out their oriignals, but this is the exception – YouTube randomly suggested the breaks/drum and bass stylophone track ‘eponymous’ by the PNK Stylophonic Giftshop – very Crumpl – and I stayed for the covers, which are good but I like the originals more.…