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Who lives in a pineapple under the Sea?

Mitheral — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:40:14 -0800

What do Avril Lavigne, Newton Faulkner, Violent Femmes, Richard Cheese and The Chipmunks have in common? They have all recorded covers of the SpongeBob SquarePants opening theme . Inspired by Neatorama.

Beck Covers

kathrineg — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:41:08 -0800

Covers by Beck and bonus Beck-related stuff (Many of these will play automatically when you open them) Your Cheatin Heart (original by Hank Williams, couldn't find a version online) Alegretto Per Signora (Original) Pink Moon (Original) Might be behind a login wall:Sin City (Original) Everybody’s got to learn sometime (Original) Parasite (Original) Bonus: Beck Watches Johnny Cash talk about Beck Loser covered by Danny Barnes Mashup: Common and Beck - Walls of the Corner (BLOM Remix)

L'idole des jeunes

nonmerci — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:30:31 -0800

Johnny Hallyday is perhaps best known to most Americans as French President Nicolas Sarkozy's BFF and "Special American Advisor" (and to younger French kids as that actor in the Optic 2000 ads), but his career started in 1960 and has only now slowed with what has been named his farewell tour. Though he began his career with many Aznavour-penned tracks, he swiftly became a household name by covering British and American hits and adapting them into French. Some other choice selections:

Amour d'été, "Love Me Tender" by Elvis
Quand revient la nuit, "Mr. Lonely" by Bobby Vinton
Jusqu'à minuit, "In the Midnight Hour" by Wilson Pickett
Laissez nous twister, "Twistin' the Night Away" by Sam Cooke
Quand je l'ai vue devant moi, "I Saw Her Standing There" by the Beatles
Let's Twist Again by Chubby Checker
Je l'aime, "Girl" by the Beatles
Les coups, "Uptight" by Stevie Wonder
San Francisco, "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" by Scott McKenzie
Je veux te graver dans ma vie, "Got to Get You Into My Life" by the Beatles
Medley with Petula Clark, including "When the Saints Go Marchin' In" among others
Aussi dur que du bois / Mal je n'ai pas voulu croire, "Knock on Wood" by Eddie Floyd / "Hush" by Deep Purple

(Many of these YouTube clips come from what is sure to be a delightful DVD anthology of Johnny's 1960's career, though it is only available in PAL format.) Random trivia: Johnny's first wife, Sylvie Vartan, is the paternal aunt of actor Michael Vartan of Alias.

Rhymes with blahg

zippy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:31:42 -0800

Nouvelle Vague covers New Wave and Punk (MLYT) Nouvelle Vague (no, not this one) does Bossa Nova covers of New Wave and Punk songs, including: Dance with me (Lords of the New Church), Master and Servant (Depeche Mode), Love will tear us apart (Joy Division), Making plans for Nigel (XTC), Blue Monday (New Order), This is not a love song (PiL), The guns of Brixton (The Clash), and one NSFW title Too drunk to fuck (Dead Kennedys). Previously: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Covers of Judee Sill

dortmunder — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:47:23 -0800

Judee Sill (previously) was the first artist signed to David Geffen's first record label Asylum. She released a couple of albums. No one really noticed. She died, another casualty of drugs. Her music, however has been covered many times: The Hollies Riko Shinahara The Fleet Foxes Plattel robin pecknold Cass Elliot Graziano Romani And Judee Sill doing a cover of her own.

1990s dance music covers: reviled, acclaimed, maimed and shamed

filthy light thief — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:21:29 -0800

Free Friday Frantic (Music) Fun: Ergo Phizmiz & The Midnight Florists cover five 1990s chartbusting, dancefloor filling smash hits with arrangements of acoustic, electronic, homemade, and toy instruments. [More musical mischief inside] The five tracks are hosted on WMFU's Free Music Archive, discussed last year when the FMA started up. This EP is via Music for Maniacs, who previously was the source for a link to the J Marimba Ponies performing Khachaturian's Sabre Dance. Original versions: Deee-Lite - "Groove Is In The Heart" (1990) Culture Beat - "Mr Vain" (1993) Eiffel 65 - "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" (1999) (plus the intro to Fresh Prince of Bel Air thrown in for good measure) (1990) C & C Music Factory - "Gonna Make You Sweat" (1990) Lou Bega - "Mambo No 5" (1999) Snap - "Rhythm Is A Dancer" (1992) Ergo Phizmiz was discussed previously, first for his groups cover of "White Light, White Heat" (the songs can now be found on this newer blog post, which also includes 9 covers of Aphex Twin and 6 modern R&B [Arff & Beef] covers), and later for his collaborative work on the 14-part podcast about the history and practice of sound collage and mashups. Still looking for more audio oddities from Ergo Phizmiz and associates? His discography on F.M.A. includes: - five scenes from Cervantes' "Don Quixote" in an imaginary ballet setting - 55 minutes of instrumental music from the forthcoming 10 part Ergo Phizmiz radio-art cycle "The House of Dr Faustus" - three short pieces of "personal agitprop" that formed as a "result of increasingly frequent comings to verbal blows with intrusive and arrogant neighbours" - a pilot for a project-in-progress in children's radio that features Ergo's daughters - a short little something that is a tribute to Nicolas Cage Oh, and almost 6 hours from the Collected Radio Works by Ergo Phizmiz.

turns out not everything looks perfect from far away...

azarbayejani — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:37:48 -0800

Christian metalcore band Confide uses a Postal Service cover as a clever tactic to promote their god-awful music. Previously: Crabcore

Hair Metalski

DecemberBoy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:24:15 -0800

70s/80s Soviet album covers. Until today, I had no idea Soviet hair metal existed. Prepare for keytars, mall hair and proof that 80s cheese was not solely a product of degenerate kepitalist decadence.

Beck covers

tawny — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:32:28 -0800

Beck intends to record cover versions of selected albums in a day, unrehearsed, with guest musicians and then to release them on his website. Pitchfork announced it yesterday here. The first song is Sunday Morning.

Classic Covers of Penguin Science Fiction Books

Kattullus — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:22:02 -0800

The Art of Penguin Science Fiction is a historical guide to the design of book jackets in the Penguin SF line by James Pardey. But before reading the essay I recommend looking at some of the wonderful cover designs, for example We, Deathworld, Rork!, The Drowned World, Star Maker, The Evolution Man, Fifth Planet and Alternating Currents. They certainly don't make SF book jackets like they used to. All hundred plus covers can also be browsed alphabetically by author. [via The Guardian Books Blog]

NYC Public School's PS22 Chorus

pwally — Sun, 03 May 2009 10:55:36 -0800

NYC Public School's PS22 Chorus belts out catchy tunes like Viva La Vida, Eye of The Tiger and Everybody's Changing. These Fifth Graders have also have worked with Tori Amos and Passion Pit among others. Make sure to check out their website.

They're gonna rip it off

namewithoutwords — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:11:04 -0800

Jack and Meg did it first. Audioslave did it poorly. The Hives tried to do it by rote. The Flaming Lips did it best while simultaneously Moving To Florida. It's been done in Mario Paint and on a ukulele. But the latest people to attempt it? Country legends The Oak Ridge Boys.

The Sun Ra Quilt of Joy

Joe Beese — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:04:50 -0800

The Sun Ra Quilt of Joy

Modern video games covers as classic books

ColdChef — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:13:30 -0800

Modern video game covers reimagined as Classic Books.

Now a Major Motion Picture, Starring Ernie Hudson

piratebowling — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:26:53 -0800

The "I Can Read Movies" Series is a set of fake film novelizations, done in 1950's and 1960's illustration style. [via]

Sunday's Gloomy

empath — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:52:56 -0800

Hungary may be the gloomiest country on earth. Believed by its people to be suffering from a centuries long curse, it's most famous modern musical export is probably the "Hungarian Suicide Song" - Gloomy Sunday. Originally popularized by Billie Holiday in the US (with an upbeat ending tacked onto the original lyrics), it's been covered dozens of times since then. Links to a few of my favorites inside: Heather Nova Sarah McLaughlin Bjork Sarah Brightman Venetian Snares Ray Charles Elvis Costello Genesis (not the famous one) Kronos Quartet Angela Poka (in Hungarian) Happy Sunday, Everyone!

Robot 6 has you covered

Artw — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:09:26 -0800

The 25 best comics covers of 2008 - from Robot 6, the new home of the old blog@Newsarama team. More art from: Dave Johnson Eddie Campbell Chris Bachalo Alex Ross Joshua Hagler Jon Foster Steve Epting Gabriel Ba Sean Philips Brian Wood James Jean Lee Bermejo Tomer Hanuka Gurihiru Mike Mayhew Jock D'Israeli Takehiko Inoue Tim Bradstreet Massimo Carnevale

Palin family christmas card

ericbop — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:06:56 -0800

Now I know how to Criticize Lin Piao and Discredit Him Completely, next time won't you join with me? Lots of other great covers on this site, but this one takes the (happy kids marching with rifles) cake. (via)

Birth of a 'Horrible' Fandom

WCityMike — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:32:11 -0800

A brief look at the Big Bang birth of a fandom: the explosion of 'Dr. Horrible' fandom in just 47 days. Quite a lot of "more inside" follows. First, there's the fanfic videos that try to expand the universe. Such as Dr. Horrible: the Early Years (1 2 3 4 5), and Dr. Dreadful's YouTube Riposte. There's applications for the Evil League of Evil as well, including Average, Yin and Yang, Short Change, the Allergen, the Parasite, the Horse Thief, Custodious Rex, Capt. Shrovewreaker (the Breakfast Pirate), Mistress Paragon, and the Death Giggle. (Ever wonder how Dr. Horrible's application was received at the League?) There's Evil Horse's rival, the Evil Germ-man; Dr. Horrible has the Weapon gunning for him; the Henchman's Union is recruiting; and catDWM's made a musical application to be Dr. Horrible's sidekick (her competition is puppetry). Second, there's the fan creations that take the show and do something adorable or amazing or weird with it — always cute kid covers such as Laundry Day (aw!) or Bad Horse (Preschooler Mumbler Edition), not to mention a few good covers by adults, too. (Speaking of adult covers, rickrolls are so passé ... have you been Bad Horse'd? Felicia Day has. Although she wasn't Bad Horse'd in German.) There's the guy who plays a duet with himself on "My Eyes/On the Rise" — in character — as both the "Penny violin" and the "Dr. Horrible violin", playing his own piano backup as well. There's ringtones, limericks, HALO machinima (1 2 3 4 5), My Little Horrible Ponies (including Capt. Hammer) (which is almost as cute as a commercial L'il Kaylee), and karaoke tracks (soon to be officially touring as a singalong, although the show is already being Rocky Horror-ed). (And there's LibraryThing doing crowdsource research as to what's on Horrible's library shelf.) And the world isn't lacking for official Dr. Horrible material, either. There's Felicia Day, with her own Twitter channel and her own excellent fan production, The Guild; she's caught "twittering under the table", requests that someone post it on Vimeo, and comments there. She does a duet with Jonathan Coulton on "Still Alive", and the Penny Arcade guys want to groom her. The Whedons aren't exactly naifs when it comes to an online presence either; they're Twittering as well (and even passed along this little off-topic gem to their followers) and the world now has a Capt. Hammer comic and the official Evil League of Evil website (e-mail Bad Horse). (Not to mention presences on MySpace and Facebook.) If you've not been over-Horribled by now, you might want to sit down for the 53-minute Dr. Horrible ComicCon panel with Joss and the cast (1 2 3 4 5), read Entertainment Weekly's oral history, read Warren Ellis' comments on the musical, or muse upon what would happen if Capt. Hammer and Mal met. If you're still not over-Horribled, you could go to WhedonFilter (er, Whedonesque, but running MeFi software, I believe) or Wonderflonium (the latter of which was a great help with finding some of the videos), where there's a great deal more singing, fan art, and music videos. All in just 47 days. That's a lot of Wikipedias, I imagine.

Songs we wish were ours

danep — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:24:08 -0800

Songs we wish were ours l 2 l 3 l 5 l bootleg Great idea, no? I thought the series was over but it looks like they kept it going.

It's Spock's illusions I recall

bicyclefish — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:20:56 -0800

Leonard Nimoy ruins Joni Mitchell. Johnny Cash redeems Gordon Lightfoot. The Donnas render Men Without Hats ever so slightly less ridiculous. The CBC assembles a list of great (and sub-great) covers of Canadian songs. And a happy Canada Day to you.

Mario Paint Hero

grandsham — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:05:17 -0800

Mario Paint Composer emulates and extends the composer function from Mario Paint for the SNES. It has been used extensively to cover classic game music, popular hits both old and new, some of the greatest songs on earth, and even the occasional classical piece

That doesn't sound like I remember it.

shothotbot — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:35:32 -0800

Coverville is a wonderful, podcast which collects covers grouped by various themes. Didn't get enough Hallelujah in this thread? Well, both Jeff Buckley and the Rufus Wainwright versions are in the 2007 Coverville Countdown. There are also the Teenage Girls, Allison Crowe, Willie Nelson and Street to Nowhere versions. Not to mention three versions uncredited in the description on the archive page. Of Course there is the two parter Lenard Cohen special edition: 1, 2. The search form was not working for me, but the archive are all on one page and are easily searchable. I have a warm spot in my heart for the Britney Spears show (Toxic by the Chapin sisters!) and I don't care who knows it.

Beat Generation Cover Scans

dhammond — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:52:17 -0800

Book nerds everywhere will enjoy these scans of cover art from the works of Beat Generation authors William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and John Clellon Holmes. CDN: Burroughs, Kerouac, Cassady, Holmes

Of Montreal covers

carsonb — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:11:54 -0800

Here are 52 cover songs that Of Montreal have done over the years. via