Hey – where ya been junkie?
I dunno about you, but I always get a kick outta cover songs. I dunno why, but I always think it's cool to hear when some musician decides to show where he came from or what got his attention as a kid by raiding their books and knocking out a new take on old tunes. Sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's awful, but sometimes the band doing the covering actually does a better job than the original auteurs! Well, that's what I think anyway which is another cool thing about cover tunes: they're instant conversation starters like, “Can you believe this band did'is? What were they thinkin'?!” Sometimes they're better than the originals too; like I happen to like Blind Melon's versions of “The Pusher” and “John Sinclaire” better than the ones that Steppenwolf and John Lennon did, but that's jus' me an' I always get into an argument when I say that.
It's all about personal taste – you know?
What am I talkin' about? Well, all'at came to mind this week on account o' because, in addition to your weekly fix o'SWAG, I happen to run across a whole bunch o' cover songs done by all different flavors o' band. What I got'ere is a little more exotic than your run-'o'-the-mill cover set, this was a case o' tellin' a musician to do dis song that's totally against their grain jus'ta see how it turns out. Some of them are pretty killer, and some of 'em suck – to my ears – but yer choices might be different from mine so check 'em out already, and getcha fix!
Yer ever lovin' Don Loder.
Adam Haworth Stephens – “The Cities That You've Burned”
Admiral Radley – “I Heart California”
Admiral Radley – “I Heart California (Single mix)”
Aikiu – “Just Can't Sleep (Stupid Human mix)”
Alex Lloyd – “You Got Nothing I Want”
Archie Roach – “Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry cover)”
Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti – “Round And Round”
Camu Tao + EL-P – “What God Should Do”
Dax Riggs – “No One Will Be A Stranger”
Everything Everything – “Schoolin'”
Film School – “Heart Full Of Pentagons”
Flore with Shunda K – “Cars (Gary Numan cover)”
Freddie Gibbs – “Playa (Mexicans With Guns mix)”
Gina Jeffreys – “Creep (Radiohead cover)”
Holy Family – “Whatever There's To Know”
Huey – “Celebrate (featuring Jim Jones and Tydis)”
Human Nature – “Legs (ZZ Top cover)”
James Blundell – “Pretty Fly For A White Guy (Offspring cover)"
James Reyne – “Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush cover)”
Jimmy Barnes – “Dancing Queen (Abba cover)”
Joe Dolce – “Thriller (Michael Jackson cover)”
John Williamson – “Why Don't You Get A Job (Offspring cover)”
Kevin Costner & Modern West – “Turn It On”
Lee Kernaghan – “Lump (Presidents Of The United States Of America cover)”
Lost In The Trees – “All Alone In An Empty House”
Mark Lizotte – “I Write The Songs (Barry Manilow cover)”
Men At Work – “Jump In My Car (Ted Mulry Gang cover)”
Motion City Soundtrack – “Cut Your Hair”
Neil Finn – “Billie Jean (Michael Jackson cover)”
New Collisions – “Dying Alone”
of Montreal – “Coquet, Coquette (Yip Deceiver mix)”
Peter Wolf Crier – “Crutch And Cane”
Peter Wolf Crier – “Hard As Nails”
Richard Clapton – “Gangsta's Paradise (Snoop Dogg cover)”
Rolf Harris – “I Touch Myself (Divinyls cover)"
Screaming Females – “I Don't Mind It”
Shawn Mullins – “1999 (Prince cover)”
Social Studies – “Holler Boys”
Social Studies – “Time Bandit”
Suzanne Johnston – “Nutbush City Limits (Tina Turner cover)”
Tame Impala – “Jeremey's Storm (live)”
Taxiride – “Word Up (Cameo cover)”
The Delltones – “Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols cover)”
The Drums – “Let's Go Surfing (Raveonettes mix)”
The Like – “Release Me (Viking remix)”
The National Rifle – “She's A Waste”
The Red Army Choir – “Down Under”
The Screaming Jets – “My Heart Will Go On (Celine Dion cover)”
The Wiggles – “It's A Long Way To The Top (AC/DC cover)”
Usher – “DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love (featuring Pitbull)”
Yellow Fever – “Bermuda Triangle”
