Quiet, Too Quiet

This was in the beginning of the movie Being There.  Pretty cool, I thought.

I was googling around today looking for Baba O’Riley played on bagpipes.  I didn’t find it, but I did find this, where it’s recreated using only computer alert sounds and some text-to-voice software.

This is pretty good too:

And this:

I heard this song for the first time yesterday. Pretty great cover of My Girl. But it’s another song that’s hard to mess up.

This is just awesome.  Doveman did these Cat Power style covers of the entire Footloose Soundtrack. It has a sad backstory of being a tribute to a deceased sister.  It’s pretty effective.

I’m certainly not going to criticize the songs, but they’d be so good with a full band doing these songs.  Maybe Sufjan Stevens it up a bit with some banjo?  They’re a collection of hymns the way they’re done anyways.

Wow, even WNYC’s Soundcheck is all up on this. Not that I blame them though.

All the comments on the blogs talk about how ironic these songs are, but I don’t see it.  They’re just great.

The mp3s have been C&D’d off Doveman’s website, but I’ve got two of the tracks here, because, you know.  Fuck the man:

• footloose
• holding out for a hero

I have this theory that some songs are so good, it doesn’t matter who covers them. You can’t do a bad job with them.

I spent all day listening to Cyndi Lauper’s version of When You Were Mine today.  Oh man.  So good.  I can’t help but bouncing along, all pumping my fist in the air and mouthing the words while I’m sitting at my desk.

So I found some covers today that are just making me throw myself around the room.

This is the best thing I think I’ve ever seen.  Banjo, accordian, synths, distortion.  I want to kiss this band. The Seedy Seeds. Wow.

This is an unofficial video for Casiotone for the Painfully Alone’s cover. The video is so good, he should just adopt it as the official one.  Great cover too.

(I should make another post of all the crazy videos I found on youtube that were also called When You Were Mine.)

 

 Prince - When You Were Mine (live) [4:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Cyndi Lauper - When You Were Mine [5:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 Teagan & Sara - When You Were Mine [3:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup