Interesting Cover Versions

[pioneer98]

Smashing Pumpkins re-released some of their old albums with a bunch of extra material in the last few years...Just discovered this one:

[stlouie_lipp]

Is that the perfect song for them to cover, or what?

[stlouie_lipp]

[Vidor]

^ "this video contains content from UMG, which has blocked it on copyright grounds"

[BW23]

Low covers "Africa" by Toto. Skip to 1:15 to avoid the pointless nattering.

http://www.avclub.com/video/low-covers-toto-53049

Completely different than that version, here's a pretty darn good singing lawyer covering Africa in a pizza joint in Utah.

[stlouie_lipp]

^ "this video contains content from UMG, which has blocked it on copyright grounds"

bummer, it was a good version.

[Vidor]

^ "this video contains content from UMG, which has blocked it on copyright grounds"

bummer, it was a good version.

They had an article on Slate about this, I tried to listen to it the other day, but the dickbags at UMG had already taken it down.

[go birds]

Ryan Adams covers Summer of '69 13 years after kicking a fan out of the Ryman for shouting out a request and then going on a tirade on a blog about how [expletive] the Ryman is.

[go birds]

Sia covering the Bleacher's Like a River Runs. It's uhhhhh....really good.

[IMADreamer]

Low covers "Africa" by Toto. Skip to 1:15 to avoid the pointless nattering.

http://www.avclub.com/video/low-covers-toto-53049

Completely different than that version, here's a pretty darn good singing lawyer covering Africa in a pizza joint in Utah.

I never really liked that song, but that was damn good.