Here’s UK performer Hollie Blue covering Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You.”
Not bad, and she’s easy on the eyes…
Posts Tagged ‘covers’
Shoegazer Sunday: Hollie Blue Covers “Fade Into You”
Sunday, March 17th, 2024Hana Maria covering Nine Inch Nails “Closer”
Wednesday, August 10th, 2016In order to provide a break from the relentless book cataloging, here’s a fun acoustic cover of Nine Inch Nail’s Closer by Hana Maria (who seems to record under the name Hana Piranha). Song is NSFW, just like the original.
Road to Nowhere: Attack of the Clones Division
Thursday, April 24th, 2014Sometimes I’ll cruise iTunes looking for covers of songs I like. While doing so for Talking Heads’ “Road to Nowhere,” I discovered that one ensemble had released the same cover of “Road to Nowhere” under multiple band names.
Eleven times.
Indeed, the versions of “Road to Nowhere” on iTunes by the following bands (all of which clock in between 3:49 and 3:53) are all exactly the same:
Moreover, several of those incarnations of the same band (Studio Sunset, Burning Down the House, Psycho Killers, Wildlife, Klone Orchestra) appear to have issued the same entire album of Talking Heads covers (with the same tracks) multiple times. Indeed, they appear to have done it three times under just their Studio Sunset name!
(BTW, if you really want that album, the cheapest version is Burning Down the House’s A Salute to Talking Heads, which is a mere $5.99, compared to $7.99 or $9.99 for some of the others.)
But wait! There’s a completely different group that did the exact same thing with the same song.
Eleven times.
All these covers of “Road to Nowhere” under these band names (all of which clock in around 4:01) are the same:
Finally, here eight cover versions that are not only exactly the same, but the underlying track is so close to the ones above they might be the exact same version with a different vocal mix:
Peter Gabriel to Release an Album of Covers (And I’m Afraid It Might Suck)
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010The news on this has been out a while, but the release is less than a month away. The album is called Scratch My Back.
I have mixed feelings about this.
On the one hand, I’m a huge Peter Gabriel fan. (Hell, I even bought Ovo, which is largely an overpriced bag of suck with a few bright spots.) Peter Gabriel III still ranks among my favorite albums of all time.
On the other hand, when artists I like came out with similar albums (Fish’s Songs from the Mirror and Tori Amos’ Strange Little Girls), they sucked pretty hard. Plus I think the “orchestral versions, no drums or guitars” idea sounds more like a lame gimmick than a wisely-considered choice.
Anyway, for an advanced taste, here’s Gabriel covering David Bowie’s “Heroes”. The orchestration is actually more interesting than Gabriel’s vocals here. It reminds me somewhat of John Adams’ “Phrygian Gates”.
And here’s his cover of Radiohead’s “Street Spirit (Fade Out)”. Man, Gabriel’s voice sounds awful, much worse than Tom Waits, but without his pitch or power. I sure hope this isn’t the final version. And the original version of that song is great.
And those two (along with Paul Simon’s “Boy in the Bubble”) were the covers I was most interested in hearing.
I hate to say it, but if Gabriel’s voice is really that blown, maybe he should stick to soundtracks. (His soundtracks for Birdy, The Last Temptation Of Christ and Rabbit-Proof Fence were all excellent.)