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Gotcha Covered

Gotcha Covered
Created by: brokenbil
Tracks: 16
Length: 01:10:01
Keywords 1. inventive
2. familiar
3. funny
Created on 3/24/08 10:56pm
Level 4
Points 1805
Total visitors 42
Unique visitors 21
description:
An incomplete collection of imaginative rock song covers. It was the last actual mixtape I ever made. The dual tape deck on my stereo broke before I got a chance to finish it. I might try compiling it again as a mix CD.

tracklist

1 Flaco Jimenez : Love Me Do
Made me smile and laugh as soon as I heard Flaco's accordion play the unmistakable harmonica melody. Had to s [...]
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Track 3 from Sleepytown
Length: 00:03:24
Year: 2000
Track Description:
Made me smile and laugh as soon as I heard Flaco's accordion play the unmistakable harmonica melody. Had to start the mix with this one. It's a keeper.
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2 The Holmes Brothers : And I Love Her
Instrumentally spare, bluesy-gospel reading of this Beatles song.
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Track 7 from Promised Land
Length: 00:04:48
Year: 1996
Track Description:
Instrumentally spare, bluesy-gospel reading of this Beatles song.
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3 Gipsy Kings : Hotel California
Another one that makes me smile. Immediately, the music lets you know it's the Gipsy Kings. Then, despite th [...]
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Track 12 from The Big Lebowski
Length: 00:05:47
Year: 1998
Track Description:
Another one that makes me smile. Immediately, the music lets you know it's the Gipsy Kings. Then, despite the first verse being sung in Spanish, you realize it's "Hotel California." Genius.
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4 Jeff Lynne : September Song
Kind of an odd choice, but it was the next cover I found and I liked it. It's a fairly faithful rendition of [...]
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Track 5 from Armchair Theatre
Length: 00:02:57
Year: 1990
Track Description:
Kind of an odd choice, but it was the next cover I found and I liked it. It's a fairly faithful rendition of the song.
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5 brad mehldau : paranoid android
What an awesome cover! Who else would think to do a jazz version of Radiohead? One of my all-time favorite c [...]
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Track 5 from largo
Length: 00:09:05
Year: 2002
Track Description:
What an awesome cover! Who else would think to do a jazz version of Radiohead? One of my all-time favorite covers.
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6 Sinead O'Connor : All Apologies
Quiet, vulnerable performance of Kurt Cobain's tune. Not my favorite Nirvana cover, but it makes for a nice, [...]
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Track 7 from Universal Mother
Length: 00:02:37
Year: 1994
Track Description:
Quiet, vulnerable performance of Kurt Cobain's tune. Not my favorite Nirvana cover, but it makes for a nice, mellow moment in the mix.
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7 Either/Orchestra : I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Big jazz ensemble take on the rockin' Beatles tune, recorded live. The ending is sloppy and funny.
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Track 20 from Across the Omniverse
Length: 00:08:06
Year: 1996
Track Description:
Big jazz ensemble take on the rockin' Beatles tune, recorded live. The ending is sloppy and funny.
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8 The Sundays : Wild Horses
The Sundays make the Rolling Stones sound pretty.
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Track 12 from Blind
Length: 00:04:45
Year: 1992
Track Description:
The Sundays make the Rolling Stones sound pretty.
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9 Hayseed Dixie : Rock & Roll All Nite
This hillbilly country band has made a career of issuing cover albums. This is a hilarious track.
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Track 9 from Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss
Length: 00:02:49
Year: 2003
Track Description:
This hillbilly country band has made a career of issuing cover albums. This is a hilarious track.
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10 Liam Lynch : Fake David Bowie Song
Always makes me laugh how perfectly Liam captures the essence of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust period. [End of Side [...]
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Track 9 from Fake Songs
Length: 00:01:32
Year: 2002
Track Description:
Always makes me laugh how perfectly Liam captures the essence of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust period. [End of Side A]
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11 The Bad Plus : Smells Like Teen Spirit
My favorite Nirvana cover by a jazz definition of a power trio.
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Track 3 from These Are the Vistas
Length: 00:05:57
Year: 2003
Track Description:
My favorite Nirvana cover by a jazz definition of a power trio.
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12 Luka Bloom : Dancing Queen
ABBA by an Irish folk singer. And it's good.
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Track 12 from Keeper of the Flame
Length: 00:03:57
Year: 2000
Track Description:
ABBA by an Irish folk singer. And it's good.
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13 Yo La Tengo : Here Comes My Baby
I loved the original Cat Stevens recording in the Rushmore sountrack and was drawn to this cover. Yo La Tengo [...]
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Track 3 from Fakebook
Length: 00:02:26
Year: 1990
Track Description:
I loved the original Cat Stevens recording in the Rushmore sountrack and was drawn to this cover. Yo La Tengo apparently based their rendition on The Tremeloes' version of the song.
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14 cowboy junkies : Sweet Jane
Another of my all-time favorite covers. Supposedly Lou Reed's favorite cover of his song.
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Track 10 from The Trinity Session
Length: 00:03:41
Year: 1988
Track Description:
Another of my all-time favorite covers. Supposedly Lou Reed's favorite cover of his song.
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15 Gigolo Aunts : Why Can't This Be Love?
Great cover from a Van Halen tribute album. Gigolo Aunts make it sound like The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your [...]
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Track 6 from Everybody Wants Some
Length: 00:03:45
Year: 1997
Track Description:
Great cover from a Van Halen tribute album. Gigolo Aunts make it sound like The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
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16 Luna : Sweet Child O' Mine
Guns 'N Roses never sounded so laid back. [Then my stereo broke. Bummer.]
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Track 12 from The Days of Our Nights
Length: 00:04:25
Year: 1999
Track Description:
Guns 'N Roses never sounded so laid back. [Then my stereo broke. Bummer.]
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Great. I would like to hear Hayseed Dixie. There was a band in the 80s I think called Big Daddy. They did covers of contemporary hits in the style of fifties/early sixties bands. Their version of 'Dancing In The dark in the style of 'here Comes Summer' is particularly wonderful.
3/27/08 11:59am
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I also recommend The Melvins cover of smell Like Teen Spirit with Leif Garrett on Vocals. Id love to hear the Liam Lynch tune.
3/27/08 10:56am
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Like the stuff i know. Plus Marisa Miller will always score you bonus points.
3/27/08 10:54am
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Ditto to what Cassie wrote. Sorry the machine broke.
3/25/08 11:46am
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I'd LOVE to hear that Luna cover.
3/25/08 05:22am
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