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i made a playlist of some heavy hitters. sometimes you can just tell an artist covers a song and you know that it's because, in a different universe, they would have written it themselves. sometimes they take a bad/mediocre song and you realize that it pretty was good all along. sometimes someone will sing a song and you can hear the reverence in their voice and it makes you love the music with them. its incredible really. i like the idea of sharing in the act of creation like that. favs on the playlist are stevie wonder, lianne la havas and michael cera palin
May 4, 2024
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Everytime by Ethel Cain, Super Trouper by The Japanese House, Poses by Madison Cunningham….there are too many to choose one.
I made this playlist of my favorite covers a while back. :)
Oct 1, 2024
First off, Lianne La Havas’ cover is also one of my favorites ever
Some standouts (songs that I previously thought were too good to be touched until I heard these):
The Fool on the Hill - Sergio Mendes & Brasil ‘66 (The Beatles)
I Go To Sleep - Anika (Ray Davies/The Kinks)
Tempted - Erykah Badu/James Poyser (Squeeze)
Hybrid Moments - Helvetia (Misfits)
Perfect - MJ Lendermen/Wednesday (Smashing Pumpkins)
Mar 8, 2024
there’s a thing in (particularly 20th century) folk music where artists across decades cover the same songs over and over and over again. i think it’s a beautiful museum of distinct times in history and i find it so interesting to see how artists have adapted the same songs to apply to the modern world and themselves as musicians. everyone and their mother (exaggeratedly) has made some version of the song “in the pines,” from lead belly to the kossoy sisters to joan baez to dolly parton to nirvana—and they’re all so wildly and beautifully different. the differences in lyrics and even melody are a clear representation to me of music as an oral tradition, and i think it is so fascinating and amazing to truly think about the ways in which humans share and change art over time. i love people.
4d ago
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god damn this quote goes so hard and i resonate with it so much. too bad it was authored by jordan peterson, probably in some ketosis and benzo-induced ecstasy
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one of the more interesting albums i've heard recently
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