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Friday Cover Songs – Gorillaz

5 March 2010

Gorillaz next album drops on Tuesday, and in its honor here’s an all-Gorillaz edition of Friday Cover Songs, including “Feel Good Inc.” from Editors and a really catchy version of “Dare” from Swedish indie rockers Melpo Mene.
Editors – Feel Good Inc. (Gorillaz cover)
Melpo Mene – Dare (Gorillaz cover)

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This Too Shall Pass

3 March 2010

OK Go has built its following entirely on video promotion.  The ‘treadmill video’ for “Here It Goes Again” has something like 50 million views on YouTube and won the band a Grammy.  But video is dead, right?  MTV and VH1 barely play them, don’t they? For good or for ill, the music is the important [...]

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Friday Cover Songs #900

19 February 2010

Phoenix – Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands (Bob Dylan cover)
Iron and Wine – Same Old Song (Four Seasons cover)
So the theme today is that there kind of isn’t a theme. I’ve been sitting on that Phoenix cover since last week and, while I have more than enough Dylan covers to do a second all-Dylan [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – My Morning Jacket Edition

12 February 2010

My Morning Jacket is a prolific cover band, probably on par with The Decemberists for sheer volume.  This isn’t even counting things like Jim James’s solo EP of George Harrison covers (which is awesome).  There are likely dozens of MMJ covers out there in the ether, and these are likely not the best ones, but [...]

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UGC Week: Project Mixtape: Soundtrack

1 February 2010

C says, “Compile a 15-song soundtrack for your life so far.”
What would a movie of your life be like?
That’s the first question that I landed on when I started tackling this post.  Trying to imagine what kind of soundtrack requires a knowledge of the movie; is it a sweeping, strings-lush instrumental score, 80s covers by [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – The Worst Covers Ever

29 January 2010

Some of you still think cover songs are bad. I imagine these covers are part of the reason why.
This take on Europe’s “The Final Countdown” may be the most terrible thing ever perpetrated on state fairs.  I find it more amusing than I should.

A close second to the above is this battle of the bands [...]

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UGC Week: Tunes

28 January 2010

Bill says, “Recommend bands we should listen to and give us reasons why we should.”
I think by dint of listening to a lot of music, a mistaken notion that I am smart about music exists among a lot of my friends. I don’t pretend to be; I just like what I like and I don’t [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – Bowie’s In Space

22 January 2010

Oh snap! It’s Friday Cover Songs. Two. Weeks. In. A. Row.
This week, we’ve got some David Bowie on the menu.
Seu Jorge – Life On Mars
M. Ward – Let’s Dance
TV On The Radio – Heroes
The Last Town Chorus – Modern Love
I don’t know that I’d list Bowie in that sentimental, all-time favorites list that I keep [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – Leave Britney Alone

15 January 2010

Back in the halcyon days when I did this every Friday, I may have mentioned doing a week of nothing but covers of Britney Spears’ “Womanizer.” Over the past few weeks, perhaps just to try and cope with the crushing grief of FCS’s absence during my quasi-hiatus, no fewer than a half-dozen people have [...]

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Humbug

15 December 2009

The radio in our office has been playing Christmas music for a few days straight now and it’s driving me crazy.
“But Jeff,” you’re thinking, “you love Christmas.  You’re all about Christmas specials and ugly sweaters and Christmas music – especially Christmas music!”
It’s true; I do love Christmas music.  But there are a few songs that [...]

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