I absolutely adore cover songs (originally done by one band, then performed by others). In fact, I’ve got a whole playlist full of them on my phone. Whether they’re irreverent reinterpretations or faithful homages, the combination of one band’s music and another band’s sound is an alchemy that often amounts to more than just the sum of its parts.<\/p>\n
A lot of them come from movie and TV soundtracks, because often music directors know which songs they want, but the licensing costs of getting the original would cost the whole movie’s music budget. Lots of great Beatles and Bob Dylan songs make it into shows, but they’re almost always performed by someone else. Heck, even the movie Singin’ In The Rain<\/em> is basically a movie full of covers. The downside of this, though, is that many soundtrack songs aren’t available as singles<\/p>\n If you know someone else who enjoys messing around with music, a purchased playlist on iTunes would make a pretty awesome gift (though not all songs are available there; some are from a few rare CDs I have).<\/p>\n Dancing Queen by Luka Bloom (orig. ABBA<\/a>)<\/p>\n Under the Milky Way<\/a> by Strawpeople (orig. The Church<\/a>)<\/p>\n Sea of Love<\/a> by Tom Waits (orig. The Honeydrippers<\/a>)<\/p>\n Flume<\/a> by Peter Gabriel (orig. Bon Iver<\/a>)<\/p>\n Love Song<\/a> by 311, from 50 First Dates<\/em> (orig. The Cure<\/a>)<\/p>\n Enjoy the Silence<\/a> by Tori Amos (orig. Depeche Mode<\/a>)<\/p>\n The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead<\/a> by Crash Test Dummies, from Dumb and Dumber<\/em> (orig. XTC<\/a>)<\/p>\n Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want<\/a> by The Dream Academy, from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off<\/em>\u00a0(orig. The Smiths<\/a>)<\/p>\n So. Central Rain<\/a> by Hem (orig. R.E.M.<\/a>)<\/p>\n When Doves Cry<\/a> by Quindon Tarver, from William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet\u00a0<\/em>(orig. Prince<\/a>)<\/p>\n She’s Not There<\/a> by Neko Case & Nick Cave, from True Blood<\/em>, S4 Ep1\u00a0(orig. The Zombies<\/a>)<\/p>\n Toxic<\/a> by Nickel Creek (orig. Britney Spears<\/a>)<\/p>\n You Keep Me Hangin’ On<\/a> by Kim Wilde (orig. The Supremes<\/a>)<\/p>\n Just Like Heaven<\/a> by The Watson Twins, used in\u00a0True Blood<\/em> S1 Ep7\u00a0(orig. The Cure<\/a>)<\/p>\n I Melt With You<\/a> by Jason Mraz, from 50 First Dates<\/em>\u00a0(orig. Modern English<\/a>)<\/p>\n Higher Ground<\/a> by Red Hot Chili Peppers (orig. Stevie Wonder<\/a>)<\/p>\n Head On <\/a>by The Pixies (orig. The Jesus and Mary Chain<\/a>)<\/p>\n Bizarre Love Triangle<\/a> by Frente! (orig. New Order<\/a>)<\/p>\n Hurt<\/a> by Johnny Cash (orig. Nine Inch Nails<\/a>)<\/p>\n Everybody Knows<\/a> by Concrete Blonde, used in\u00a0Pump Up The Volume\u00a0<\/em>(orig. Leonard Cohen<\/a>)<\/p>\n Dead Souls<\/a> by Nine Inch Nails, from The Crow<\/em>\u00a0(orig. Joy Division<\/a>)<\/p>\n Lips Like Sugar<\/a> by Seal, from 50 First Dates<\/em>\u00a0(orig. Echo and the Bunnymen<\/a>)<\/p>\n Wild Horses<\/a> by The Sundays, used in Buffy the Vampire<\/em> Slayer S3 Ep20\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0(orig. The Rolling Stones<\/a>)<\/p>\n Pale Blue Eyes <\/a>by R.E.M. (orig. The Velvet Underground<\/a>)<\/p>\n Sweet Jane<\/a> by Cowboy Junkies (orig. The Velvet Underground<\/a>)<\/p>\n I Will Survive<\/a> by Cake (orig. Gloria Gaynor<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I absolutely adore cover songs (originally done by one band, then performed by others). In fact, I’ve got a whole playlist full of them on my phone. Whether they’re irreverent reinterpretations or faithful homages, the combination of one band’s music and another band’s sound is an alchemy that often amounts to more than just the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[379,220,118,19,380],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-av-club","tag-cover-songs","tag-friday-night-lists","tag-lists","tag-music","tag-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}