July 9, 2007

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:59 pm

QOTD: I'm a fan of Nickel Creek's version of Britney's 'Toxic'. And of course my medley of Beautiful(Christina Aguilera)/Baby One More Time(Britney) is damn spectacular. Add's 'Take On Me' is super good aswell.

I've almost finished up redoing my bedroom now; just have to put up the border and curtains(and buy the curtains), but that stuff can wait for the weekend. Today has been a day or organizing and steam cleaning and washing and oh goodness. My room is spoootless now.

I baked and frosted two dozen cupcakes in the last hour. Vanilla cake with chocolate frosting = Yummy.

Tomorrow I need to go buy curtains and bleach/hairdye. Woo.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:16 pm

Vanilla cupcakes?..........with chocolate frosting?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:27 pm

There are many good covers of Toxic. Local H did one too. Also <a href="http://sockpuppet.us/songs/mysterysong.mp3">I did one</a> though I need to rerecord it now that I have a better arrangement for it.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:35 pm

I like it Fluff. Great guy and guitar.

Post by **Spud** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:18 pm

RUN DMC: Walk This Way

jack · Post by **jack** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:59 pm

i don't know about ALL TIME (as it sounds so omnipotent) but 3 of my personal favorites would have to be phil redmon's cover of king arthur's "put cindy back on the bus", lunkhead's cover of "beautiful world" by devo, and tonetripper's much different cover of the same devo song.

Post by **Spud** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:21 pm

Of course, many of my favorite covers can be found <a href="http://www.mightyoctothorpe.com/octofest.html">here</a>.

Sheail · Post by **Sheail** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:45 am

Madonna - American Pie. Next question.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:11 am

.. would be 'what? Are you retarded?'

The Weakest Suit · Post by **The Weakest Suit** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:05 am

i don't know if it's my favorite cover project ever, but this guy named hideki from japan re-recorded the whole revolver album and released it as revolvah. he came to america and performed the entire album with a full band in 4 or 5 locations (which was even better than the cd). my recording business was able to record 2 of the shows. hearing a rocking version of tomorrow never knows live was pretty incredible.

anyway, you can check out 5 songs from revolvah on musicalfamilytree's site, specifically, here:
http://www.musicalfamilytree.com/bands/hideki
love you to, for no one, and tomorrow never knows are my favorites, but the whole cd is pretty great.

enjoy.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:10 am

Finally, I think I have an answer:

"How Come" by Embrace (D12 cover). No cover has ever taken so little and made so much.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:36 am

I just thought of one of my favourites - The Clash's 'Police + Thieves' - great song, great cover that recognises the original whilst brings new meaning to it, and pretty much singlehandedly brought a whole bunch of punks to reggae (and hopefully t'other way round as well).

Oh and Frank Bennett's lounge version of 'Creep' makes it sound like his is the original, and Radiohead are covering it. No mean feat.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:04 am

The Weakest Suit wrote:this guy named hideki from japan re-recorded the whole revolver album.

Glenn Case covered an entire Liam Lynch album. Cool or scary?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:57 am

And Jeff Fal covered an entire U2 album and did a great job of it.

Post by **Spud** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:59 am

Glenn Case also covered an entire Paul Westerburg album. Yes, scary. Oh, and cool, too.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:24 am

There's this Musak version of Jethro Tull's Cross-Eyed Mary on our corporate phone system that I just can't get out of my head. DAMN IT!

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:37 am

fluffy wrote:And Jeff Fal covered an entire U2 album and did a great job of it.

linky?

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:42 am

erik's "you say you don't love me" is great. and his "movin' right along." and pfm's "summertime." and erik's "maria," and high density's "the lonely goatherd," and octothorpe's "little guns" and "the sound of music." also lots of nonsongfight covers.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:44 am

Hoblit wrote:
fluffy wrote:And Jeff Fal covered an entire U2 album and did a great job of it.
linky?

http://actdead.com/?p=45

I can't believe you didn't know about that already.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:31 am

fluffy wrote:
Hoblit wrote:
fluffy wrote:And Jeff Fal covered an entire U2 album and did a great job of it.
linky?
http://actdead.com/?p=45

I can't believe you didn't know about that already.

ME EITHER!

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:19 pm

Hoblit wrote:
fluffy wrote:
Hoblit wrote: linky?
http://actdead.com/?p=45

I can't believe you didn't know about that already.
ME EITHER!

Very cool.