Category: Covers
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This Is A Trent Reznor Video
I played Freddie Scott’s wonderfully evil parody of Trent Reznor / Nine Inch Nail songs on this week’s podcast, but it seems they’ve also done a very funny spoof of those 90’s NIN videos to go with it. “Its almost time to hear the chorus but first let’s listen to this weird sound …what the…
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I’m kind of over of getting told to put my hands in the air
Great cover again by Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox – one of my favourite off the album was their version of Lorde’s ‘Royals’ sung by Puddles the clown – and here we have ‘Team’ given the similar treatment. I’ve grown to hate this song a lot less since the rotation on 6Music, it has grown on…
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Bomarr’s Wild Xmas 8
If you liked my Bah Humbug compilations and A Crumplebang Christmas, then I’m sure you’ll love Bomarr’s Wild Xmas series. I’d love to say I was inspired by these (earlier ones have a lot of overlap with Bah Humbug) but actually I’ve only just heard of them via Mr Fab of Music for Maniacs blog.…
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Everything Counts – kids version
Not seen this before, an utterly charming version of Depeche Mode’s Everything Counts by DMK aka the Schrader family from Columbia! Love the improvised instruments… And then they did Enjoy The Silence: And then earlier this year they followed this up with a live version of Just Can’t Get Enough. TOO CUTE. And surprised they…
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Show me love
https://soundcloud.com/boykidcloud/boy-kid-cloud-show-me-love More 90’s retro revival – love this beautiful cover of Robin S via Sea Punk Gang from boy kid cloud, available for free download or purchase.
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Julia Holter – Gold Dust Woman
https://soundcloud.com/myblogcliche1/julia-holter-gold-dust-woman Anything Fleetwood Mac related is pretty much a shoe-in for this blog, although covers can be a sore point – so often they add so little, and lose any magic the original had in the translation. One that does add a modern sense of ghostly folktronica (?) to an already haunting FM track is…