Cover Tuesday 17: Of Montreal & MGMT – Smeels Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana Cover)
14 Oct
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Time for your weekly dose of covers. This week I have nice bunch of covers for you from Of Montreal and MGMT, Natasha Bedingfield, Mates of State, and the Cure.
Of Montreal & MGMT – Smeels Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover): This cover is only 4 days old, definitely the baby of this week’s batch. While on tour the unstoppable force that is Of Montreal and MGMT took a big risk and covered the most influential and beloved song of the 1990′s. When Kurt Cobain and co. first invisioned this song — I bet it sounded a lot like this in his head.
Natasha Bedingfield – Ray Of Light (Madonna cover): British songbird, Natasha Beddingfield recorded this cover for Radio 1′s 40th Anniversary compilation. I gotta say, she did a wonderful job singing this song. Ask any singer, or her Royal Mageness herself, “Ray of Light” is one tough song to sing. Thankfully, Natasha Bedingfield’s vocal range is incredible and suitable worth of “Ray of Light.” Very impressed.
Of Montreal – Crazy (Gnrals Barkley cover): Here’s another Of Montreal cover. They are quickly becoming my favorite cover band. This Gnarls Barkley cover is exquisite.Â
Mates Of State – California (Phantom Planet cover): This is such a great cover to an iconic song.Â
The Cure – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division cover): One of the many, many “Love WIll Tear Us Apart” covers, an done of the best.Â
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Love your covers. thanks!
I’ve been looking forward to these all week. Thank you
Great picks this week, as per usual. I am definitely feeling NB doing Madonna
Of Montreal + MGMT + Nirvana
Oh My God!
This post is so lovely, thank you
Amazing Covers! Keep up the good work!
these are just perfect. my soundtrack for today.
thank you! I love this blog.
I love looking back at your other cover posts, good stuff, though, a lot of it is missing links
natasha did ray of light live when i saw her a few months back, it was crazy good
I never would’ve thought of Of Montreal and MGMT doing a cover of Nirvana. It’s awesome. Thanks!
The Nirvana cover was recorded by and originally posted by us here at NYCTaper. A little credit would have been nice.
http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=408
I love the cure and I love “love will tear us apart”
the cover is good.
Nirvana cover by Mgmt/Of montreal…BREATHLESS
amazing, and i normally would never say that to a cover of nirvana…