MetaFilter posts tagged with covers

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

Transcending horrible

growabrain — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:35:40 -0800

Total Eclipse of the Heart (YT) as "performed" by Legion of rock stars, a cover band that does “such lousy job with the source material that it becomes oddly hilarious”. (Choice of 179 videos. Via The in-between)

Seven!

Astro Zombie — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:23:09 -0800

You all remember the song from Sesame Street, but you've never heard it like this: one two three FOUR FIIIVE six seven EIGHT NIIINE TEN eleven TWELVE! (via). Se7en!

No Reason To Get Excited

John Kenneth Fisher — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:16:57 -0800

Written in 1967 by Bob Dylan, it was originally quiet, lowkey... and vaguely menacing. But when Jimi Hendrix redefined it the following year, even Dylan knew that the song had changed forever.

Since then, it's been covered (over and over again), praised almost as often, analyzed, referenced, and, of course, found to be encoded in the minds of Cylons.

Originally released 40 years ago, erm, yesterday: All Along the Watchtower.

I got a letter from the government the other day, I opened and read it, it said they were suckers

Artw — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:45:27 -0800

Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos