I will now mysteriously disappear, leaving you with this.
My Morning Jacket-Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton cover)
Bridges and Balloons (Johanna Newsome cover)-Decemberists
Human Behavior-Decemberists

Six Foot One (Liz Phair)-Baby Teeth
Diamonds are Forever (Shirley Bassey)-Arctic Monkeys
I Started a Joke-Calexico with Shannon Wright on vocals

1979 (Smashing Pumpkins)-Pavement
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Band)- . . . And They Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead
I Still Miss Someone (J. Cash)-Ryan Adams
Running Against the Wind (Bob Seger)-The Hold Steady
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (Prince)-My Morning Jacket

Fool in the Rain (Led Zeppellin cover)-Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians
One Wrong Turn (Rainer Ptacek cover)-Calexico
Lucifer Sam (Pink Floyd)-Flaming Lips
Lithium (Nirvana)-Pavement

Borderline (Madonna)-Counting Crows
Debaser (Pixies)-Rogue Wave
He Was a Friend of Mine (Byrds cover)-The Grateful Dead. A song for JFK.
Born Under a Bad Sign (Cream)-Smashing Pumpkins
Rock On (David Essex)-Smashing Pumpkins
When You Were Young (Killers)-Astrid Swan
Heaven (Talking Heads)-Clem Snide
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up (Tom Waits)-Cold War Kids

Hopelessly Devoted To You (Olivia Newton John)-Clem Snide. I can’t believe I used to have a crush on her . . .
Don’t You Want Me (remix) (Human League cover)-Alcazar
Curtains Close/Rockafella Skank (Fatboy Slim)-Arctic Monkeys
As Good as New (Abba)-Alcazar
Janie Jones (Clash)-Babyshambles. Out of this entire post, probably my favorite track.
Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry cover)-My Morning Jacket

Time of the Season (The Zombies)-Twilight Singers. Get it? Zombies?
Highway to Hell-My Morning Jacket
Moonlight Mile (Rolling Stones cover)-Drive By Truckers
You Shook Me All Night Long (ACDC cover)-Hayseed Dixie
Sexyback (Justin Timberlake cover)-James Eric
Karma Police (Radiohead cover)-Citizen Cope
California Uber Alles (Dead Kennedys)-The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy (Highly recommended!)
Bad Reputation [Freedy Johnston]-Death Cab for Cutie
Cry Me a River (Justin Timberlake cover)-The New Amsterdams
Green River (Creedence Clearwater Revival)-The Minutemen
Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones)-Social Distortion
Hawks and Doves (Neil Young)-Scott Miller

One More Night (Phil Collins)-Nina Gordon

Palmcorder Yajna (Mountain Goats)-Ben Gibbard
Your Advice (Blood Feathers)-Apollo Sunshine

Shadowlands (Joy Division)-The Killers (Is this the tackiest picture joke in the history of the internet? Yes? Then I broke two records with one post!)
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July 13, 2007 at 10:03 am |
good lord…
thanks
July 13, 2007 at 10:07 am |
that hanging picture is horrible…
no reason to be ashamed admitting having a crush on Olivia – she did look quite ahem “nice” back then!
July 13, 2007 at 11:32 am |
Yeah – no shame in digging Olivia. Might I remind you of this LP cover? And much thanks for LPhair pic as well.
July 13, 2007 at 12:32 pm |
God’s mercy on the hanged men. As for the rest of the covers, ho hum, nothing new under the sun.
Peace
July 13, 2007 at 1:05 pm |
“Born Under a Bad Sign” was written by William Bell & Booker T. Jones and recorded by Albert King. It is not a Cream song… unless you mean the Smashing Pumpkins were covering a cover.
July 13, 2007 at 2:08 pm |
Good thing my boss wasn’t around… she would have been very upset.
July 13, 2007 at 2:45 pm |
nice work. very nice work.
July 13, 2007 at 4:36 pm |
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July 13, 2007 at 7:01 pm |
you don’t really mean disappear i hope. thx buddy, u rockski
July 13, 2007 at 7:54 pm |
Wow. I’m both sort of aroused and deeply disturbed. It’s a good thing there’s a weekend ahead to resolve the conflict!
July 13, 2007 at 9:17 pm |
Super selection. Love the Stones Covers and ACDC … Thanx for these.
July 13, 2007 at 9:59 pm |
Where…in…the…hell…you…have…founded….that…awful…80s…photo…?
It fucking stunned me. :l
July 13, 2007 at 11:00 pm |
The goats by the waterfall is beautiful…
The last one is
July 15, 2007 at 11:59 am |
Pretty class post. One small thing- I think the Joy Division song covered by The Killers is called Shadowplay, not Shadowlands.
July 15, 2007 at 4:39 pm |
brilliant as usual. but thank god you didn’t find a picture to go with the my morning jacket send-up of ‘wonderful tonight’. the horror, the horror.
July 16, 2007 at 5:26 pm |
Hey thanx a lot. nice selection of covers hope you can bring us a second edition hehe. Thanx
October 29, 2007 at 5:26 am |
i love covers and when they’re as great as these i can just smile and smile
November 24, 2007 at 4:44 pm |
me encanto la primera foto yo quiero una para my
January 6, 2008 at 11:10 am |
very interesting stuff here.
i’ll be publishing a bunch of theme-based playlists throughout 2008 of indie, alt and other artists.
just finished a very popular 12 playlist series of alternative and indie christmas/winter/holiday mp3 collection – over 120 in all.
i like your site and would like to trade links. let me know!