Well, yesterday’s covers post seemed to have been a hit and I thought I’d repost some tracks I’d been asked to, as well as a few I haven’t posted here before.
Belle and Sebastian -‘Final Day (Young Marble Giants).’ mp3
Jeff Buckley -‘Hall
elujah (Leon
ard Cohen cover).’ mp3
Breeders -‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles cover).’ mp3
CSS – ‘One Way Or Another (Blondie cover).’ mp3
Pop Will Eat Itself -‘Games Without Frontiers (Peter Gabriel cover).’ mp3
Sia -‘I Go To Sleep (The Kinks cover).’ mp3
Raincoats -‘Lola (The Kinks cover).’ mp3
Slits -‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Marvin Gaye cover).’
Schneider TM -‘The Light 3000 (cover of The Smiths There Is A Ligh
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This Mortal Coil -‘Song To the Siren (Tim Buckley cover).’ mp3
For what it’s worth, I genuinely hold The Slits, Schneider TM, The Raincoats, This Mortal Coil and Jeff Buckley to be amongst the finest cover versions eve
r done. In the unlikely event of any list of best ever cover versions NOT includi
ng these, I think I would have to have a word. They reinvent the songs concerned, and that’s what a cover version should do.