First and foremost, I will start off by admitting I had no clue this was originally Cher‘s song. Then again, on first hearing Nancy Sinatra in Kill Bill Vol.1, I should have expected no less from Quentin Tarantino than to feature yet another brilliant cover song to accompany his film (after all, he did do it in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown). Continue reading »
Warren Zevon was one of the most underappreciated artists in his time, at least by the general public. Sure, “Werewolves of London” gets heavy rotation between “The Monster Mash” and “Ghostbusters” on radio stations in October, but the rest of his catalog goes mostly unnoticed. Continue reading »
What kind of songs do you think an indie folk duo from Toronto that describe themselves as a “cookie-tin pedal enthusiast …[and a] purveyor of ghost-noises” would cover? Robyn? The Beach Boys? Luckily, yes and yes! Continue reading »
From Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation and English alt-rock group Placebo, to electro pop duo Avec Sans and British singer-songwriter Will Young, “Running Up That Hill” has certainly seen its fair share of cover versions. Continue reading »
Five Good Covers presents five cross-genre reinterpretations of an oft-covered song.
Written by Supertramp’s Roger Hodgson (with an assist on the second chorus’s vocal harmony by Rick Davies), “The Logical Song” not only has more words of three or more syllables (twenty-seven!) than some bands have in their entire discography; it also has a warning about using schooling as a brickbat that resonates even more post-No Child Left Behind. Plus which, that saxophone break would send any contemporaries whimpering their way back to Baker Street. It was the band’s biggest hit off their biggest album, Breakfast in America; that unforgettable cover model, Kate Murtagh, is 94 and still going, much like “The Logical Song” itself.
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I know what you’re thinking. “A Bluegrass band playing heavy metal tunes. Hasn’t that already been done a few times?”
Well, as my uncle Cleavon says, “Y’all ain’t heard nothin’ yet.”
Meet Steve ‘n’ Seagulls, a five-piece band from Finland. (Whenever I think of hillbilly music, I automatically think of Finland.) They have received millions of hits on their YouTube page for their amazing hillbillified covers of AC/DC, Dio and Iron Maiden. Now they take on Metallica’s “Seek and Destroy” in a video that can only be described as something straight out of my family reunion. (No, seriously.) Continue reading »