Cool Covers: The Shins, Owen Pallett And More

[via Pitchfork]
There's been a slew of cool cover songs floating around the interwebz lately; I especially like the A.V. Club's web series “Undercover” and Levi's Levi's Pioneer Sessions. Yesterday I watched Owen Pallett perform a watered-down version of Guided by Voices's “Game of Pricks” on “Undercover”, which features bands covering songs chosen by those purveyors of taste at the A.V. Club. And while I said “watered-down,” I actually found myself humming Pallett's version in my head today. Watch the video after the jump.
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Owen Pallett covers Guided By Voices
The Levi's Pioneer Sessions is another
online
series that hosts free mp3s of acts covering classic songs. The Dirty Projectors, She & Him, and Nas have all been on the
site; today, the Shins' cover of Squeeze's “Goodbye Girl” is on the site. It's the
first Shins song that's been out since singer James Mercer reorganized
the lineup last year; you can download it on the Levi's site.

I started mucking around the internet for more interesting covers; here's a Kyp Malone (of TV On The Radio) cover of one of my favorite songs of all time, the Talking Heads' “Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place). I want to like it more, but I don't. Which leads me to believe that there aren't many covers that are actually better than the originals, even when it's by really great musicians.