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gorgeous, the best of this album, come to mexico please.
Posted by: estefanita on 6. Evangelicals - "You've Been Flirting Again"Score = 0
i LOVE this cover album - and the album cover too, btw ;)
I appreciate when someone does a cover and reinvent sthe song making it completely new. It's oh so quiet, isobel and possibly are outstanding. I'm looking forward to hear you rem and radiohead re-inventions now.
my true compliments :D
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Is this a country version or something? Boy, you must really hate Bjork... and if she ever listens to this, the feeling will be mutual.
Posted by: Orion on 2. Dirty Projectors - "Hyperballad"Score = 0
This sounds horrible, like a tape that has been too much time under direct sunlight. You guys really are Liars, you ain't musicians you are simply lame clowns destroying someone else's work. Take a shower and stay away from making more of this crap.
Posted by: Orion on 1. Liars - "Army of Me"Score = 1
couldn't pass the 1st minute. oh. my. god.
horrible.
Posted by: alf on 2. Dirty Projectors - "Hyperballad"Score = 1
I have an inordinate fixation on cover versions. These are a mixed bag and I think will take a few more listens to pick fav's. Look forward to the B sides.
I just thought it odd to cover Oh So Quiet as that's a cover to begin with. Bell seems to be more like a remix with vocal mirroring, ironically downplayed, Bjork's way of delivering the lyric. The No-Age version has more fun with the arrangement, but is one of those covers that leave you feeling that the band don't care about the song as they murmur the lyrics without enough expression to indicate an understanding of the song (like Madonna's read of American Pie).
Posted by: Brian on A Post About PostScore = 0
really: stop doing these.
It was interesting and cute and nice when REM got an even-further-in-the-middle-of-the-road make-over, but radiohead was bad and this is even worse, both in concept and in execution. And it's even sadder to me that I like most of the bands on this compilation.
you're shitting on the present and the past simultaneously.
joshua
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now that's what i called a beautiful header image.
Posted by: brendan on A Post About PostScore = 1
I really adored listening to this! (so did the birds) Good job. I now have some new bands to look up.
I don't actually like Bjork's 'all so quiet' really, but I liked both versions alot. Bell's is so vibrantly squelchy and No Age have the perfect mix of woozy loud/quiet.
The xiu xiu is.. questionable but reading the interview I completely understand why they went for the paranoiac introspective route.
I liked how rustic and intimate the songs are. It's also pretty interesting that a few of the songs are very church-ish. We are definitely in the liberal church of Bjork!
Posted by: maya on A Post About PostScore = 0
Wow, hahahaha, this is such garbage. I can't believe it... Worse than hearing Antony Hegarty ruining songs on Volta
Posted by: Neil on 7. Xiu Xiu - "Isobel"Score = -1
Actually, I wish they'd covered "Homogenic", but ... :)
I'm giving it a chance though
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Bjòrk music yet complex, so I will think twice to make a tribute about her music and not mess it up like this, about this band talent no question, but wrong proyect selection.
Posted by: oswaldo on 7. Xiu Xiu - "Isobel"Score = -1
the final fantasy & ed droste version is amazing. Better than the original
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Awful awful awful!!! It sounds like someone put them in a blender and set it puree. The rhythm was slow the vocals were highly distorted and they really over did it with the sound effects very poor job for really good song I am highly disappointed!
Posted by: Phill p on 1. Liars - "Army of Me"Score = 0
http://www.myspace.com/whitleymusic
It's a shame Whitley's Hyperballad cover wasn't included.
A terrific Bjork cover.
Posted by: Nick Crocker on A Post About PostScore = 0
Xiu Xiu & Gira's cover of Queen & Bowie's "Under Pressure" is cool but this one sucks big time.
Posted by: Javier Pantoja on 7. Xiu Xiu - "Isobel"Score = -1
Sterogum has now affirmed that the three biggest albums of my high school life are three of the biggest albums of so many lives. Does that make me a stereotype?
P.S. I have nothing good to say about the covers album this post is actually about.
Posted by: smarlett on A Post About PostScore = 0
Are you crazy?
This is crap.
Poor Björk.
This Xiu Xiu should be arrested for that.
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WHOAH WHOAH WHOAH!
I love it! Amazing, simply and amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Posted by: Dan on 4. Bell - "It's Oh So Quiet"Score = 1
i think thats shay hess (sp?)
she did some of the interviews for the sxsw coverage on stereogum and i think she was on AOL somewhere.
ohhh and this is a nice jam
Posted by: Keaton34 in reply to Kall's comment on 10. El Guincho - "Cover Me"Score = 0
beautiful
the contrasting melodies bring out such interesting elements
ggggreat work
Posted by: Keaton34 on 8. Final Fantasy & Ed Droste - "Possibly Maybe"Score = 1
this song honestly scares me. it first came on as i was entering a dark park all alone and i had to change it. i haven't gotten all the way through it yet
thanks xiu xiu, anything that scares me is worth commending
Posted by: Keaton34 on 7. Xiu Xiu - "Isobel"Score = 1
i completely fell for this version, the fact that i'd hardly heard the original made little difference, its got its own personality and its own essence.
Bell, consider me a fan
ps. by god you are quite gorgeous as well :D:D
Posted by: Keaton34 on 4. Bell - "It's Oh So Quiet"Score = 1
what a load of bollocks.
Posted by: 9 on A Post About PostScore = 0