Snooper Makes The Beatles Sound Like DEVO

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Oct 172025
 
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DEVO’s cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction” is infamous for how aggressively weird it is. But Mick Jagger reportedly loved it and their performance of the cover on Saturday Night Live made their name. Perhaps Nashville punks Snooper – whom we last heard covering DEVO – are hoping for some kind of similar notoriety. As they have covered a song that’s just as famous as “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” in a manner that calls to mind both DEVO’s cover and their overall approach. Continue reading »

Snooper Release Punk Cover of Unreleased DEVO Track

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Jun 032024
 
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Most of the time when we write about covers here at Cover Me, we write about covers of big hits. Occasionally, it’s deep cuts from albums or b-sides that are known to only the most dedicated fans of an artist or band. Well, today we have a cover of song so deep in a band’s catalogue, it was never officially released. “I Think I’m Falling in In Love Again” is an early DEVO song that has appeared in different versions on the internet over the years. There is a slower demo version from 1975-ish that only sort of sounds like the band, and there’s a far peppier version from a live show in 1977 which sounds substantially more like DEVO. It’s never been put out by the band, so there are just these lo-fi bootlegs. Continue reading »