The Best Cover of All Time, Volume XIV

by Will on December 15, 2009

Ian M. also submitted Built to Spill’s epic cover of “Freebird”; I’m nominating Beirut’s cover of Ary Barroso’s “Brazil” (Sinatra’s version also makes the cut). Again, my musical biases are pretty obvious, so if you want to avoid a list dominated by skinny white boys, vote early and vote often.




Tagged as: Beirut, Built to Spill, Covers, Sinatra

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{ 3 comments }

1 sidereal December 15, 2009 at 2:21 pm

How could I have forgotten Cake’s cover of Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive?

2 Will December 15, 2009 at 2:26 pm

I’m on the fence about that one, sidereal. It might be a little too obvious for my jaundiced tastes. Then again, it is really catchy.

3 Scott O December 15, 2009 at 6:56 pm

Read the site daily, but never felt I had much to contibute until this set of threads. Here is one of my favorites.
Tricky doing PE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG3sw9JoPuA

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