There’s something about The Outfield’s classic “Your Love” that speaks to all ages. I have firsthand knowledge of this, as I put the song on a mix cd a few years back that somehow ended up in the hands of my uncle. He told me a few weeks later that his three kids loved the mix, and one song in particular. While I don’t quite remember what songs I included, I’m certain it was rife with new classics and sprinkled with a few nuggets of peculiarity, such as The Outfield. “Your Love” was in fact the song my young cousins adored so. When news of jj’s Elin Kastlander covering the song hit the blogs, I was eager to hear her take. It’s an emotion filled acoustic slant, and it’s quite beautiful. Also beautiful is another take on the track from Bon Iver, recorded live, which I’ve included below for good measure. If you’ve never had a chance to connect with the song, listen to all three versions if you can, and just try to get it out of your head subsequently.
Tag Archive: Covers
[mp3/video] Gorillaz: “Crystalised (The xx Cover)”
Gorillaz, authors of one of my surprise albums of the year, visited BBC’s Live Lounge and recorded a few tracks including this cover of The xx’s indelible “Crystalised.” I say surprise because I greatly enjoyed a majority of the record when I was predisposed to thinking I would not. I’ve never been a huge fan of the side project of Blur frontman Damon Albarn, and thusly had low expectations for their latest, Plastic Beach![[mp3/video] Gorillaz: Crystalised (The xx Cover)](http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=tympanogram-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B003A9OVS0 "[mp3/video] Gorillaz: Crystalised (The xx Cover)"){kind=small}
But enough of that, check out the video, and grab an mp3 of the “Crystalised” below.
Gorillaz – Crystalised (The xx Cover) (mp3)
[mp3] The Suzan: “Take It Or Leave It (The Strokes Cover)”
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Were Andy and I to forced to select a blog similar in style to our own, a choice we could possibly make is Listen Before You Buy. I say this because I heard today’s song over there, and despite our so called similarities, we certainly don’t have the exact same tastes in music. So it is with a grain of salt that I am posting about today’s hilarious entry into the annals of awkward covers, dissecting a song recently written about on the aforementioned similar blog.
Covering The Strokes’ “Take It Or Leave It,” is the Japanese quartet The Suzan. I don’t find the track quite so entertaining, as far as enjoyment on any discernible level goes. Sure the ladies’ inability to pronounce certain words in a foreign tongue is amusing, but that’s a bit snarky, and certainly not enough to allow me to enjoy the song. The saccharine sweet synths and jittery drum beats serve to highlight the awful vocals, leaving something that is all just too laughable to take seriously. Sorry, but this is terrible.
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The Suzan – Take It Or Leave It (The Strokes Cover) (mp3)
[mp3] Overwerk: “Only Girl ft. The Dirty Tees” (Rihanna Cover)
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Recently I’ve found myself embracing my somewhat-dormant dance music tastes. I would never consider myself a scholar on the subject, but I enjoy the occasional foray into what dance music I am privy to. I came across this Rihanna cover in our inbox, and while I’m not particularly familiar with the Rihanna original, the cover certainly felt like similar to what I would expect from a Rihanna song considering my base knowledge of her work. What relatively little of Rihanna’s work I have heard, I generally enjoy. After listening to her take on this particular song, my favorable prejudice was found to be correct.
This cover stays relatively true in pacing and feel, though the senders informed me they made it a bit edgier and added an original bridge and new verses. To sing those verses, Overwerk enlisted the help of Toronto’s The Dirty Tees, who from what I gleaned in a brief glance at their website, operate in a similar genre themselves. Since The Dirty Tees are the actual senders of this track, as a bonus I’ve also attached their remix of Phoenix’s “1901.”
Be good to your ears and grab these two tracks to help you enjoy your Sunday/long weekend (if you’re lucky).
OVERWERK – Only Girl ft. The Dirty Tees (mp3)
Phoenix – 1901 (The Dirty Tees Remix) (mp3)
[mp3] The Drums: “We Used To Wait” (Arcade Fire Cover)
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Well that didn’t take long. Brooklyn’s indie pop band du jour, The Drums, recently covered Arcade Fire’s minty fresh “We Used To Wait” while performing live at BBC Three Live Lounge. The Drums don’t take the song in much of a different direction, but the original is rather good, so the cover doesn’t have to alter much to make a decent sounding song. Andy and I still haven’t gotten their debut album for some reason, though I’m sure that will change before the year closes.
The Drums – We Used To Wait (mp3)
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