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Kate Nash Covers Arctic Monkeys

Despite the occasional imagined Lily diss, that other middle-class English MySpace phenom Kate Nash seems well on her way to fulfilling next-bigger-thing status. Especially if she keeps logging covers as excellent as her take on Favourite Worst Nightmare favorite "Fluorescent Adolescent," which she performed live on Jo Whiley’s Live Lounge. You can hear her hyper-ballad take at Hypeful. Middle-age character studies have never sounded so much fun. It's as hooky as the Monkeys' version of Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good." An idea: Maybe the Brits should keep on keeping it this incestuous.

 

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wow. she is amazing.

Posted by: xburgh at 10/19/07 2:36 PM | Reply
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i havent listened to this, so im not going to make a comment. and i know covers can be good (i wont deny that). but i think the music market (indie music market?) is becoming oversaturated with them. i feel like on this site alone there's an average of 3 (or so) posts a week about a cover song/songs.

So, i propose a 2 year ban on covers (live settings being excluded for the time being).

Your band will be penalized for recording a cover. Live recordings will be penalized as well, but not as harshly (but only if they are of the bootleg varity).

Any covering of classic songs (classic-ness of song to be determined by a panel of modern music scholars) will leave your band being never allowed to perform a cover again. Your band might not even be allowed close to a Beatles, Joy Division, Bob Dylan, etc. album again if you're not careful.

Thanks for your time. And remember, when it comes time to vote, vote Yes on the petition to ban cover songs for 2 yeats.

Posted by: danny at 10/19/07 2:55 PM | Reply
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Agreed - ban on yeats. What's our stance on kipling, whitman and longfellow?

Posted by: rogerthat at 10/19/07 2:59 PM | Reply
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Kate Nash needs to go away, there are so many British artists like her but infinitely better. Damn you NME.

Posted by: Apexa at 10/19/07 4:24 PM | Reply
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Kate Nash fucking owns Lily Allen.

Posted by: The Other Matthew at 10/19/07 4:45 PM | Reply
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Kate Nash is delightful.

I think indie-incestuous is the least of one's musical worries when you have the likes of Fall Out Boy raping Joy Division...

Posted by: tara at 10/19/07 9:27 PM | Reply
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Kate Nash and Lily Allen seem the same to me- ahhhhh

Posted by: Fluffers at 10/19/07 9:49 PM | Reply
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the first minute is a little chaotic, but fortunately she chills out and just does the song after a while.

it's alright. i love arctic monkeys, but sometimes i feel like they are done trying. do they really care about the music?

Posted by: martin at 10/19/07 10:05 PM | Reply
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Kate Nash...bah. Arctic Monkeys = better than Kate Nash.

Posted by: David at 10/20/07 12:22 AM | Reply
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She also covered Beyonce "Irreplacable" once, sounded better than the real one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ntMh4REBd4

Posted by: m at 10/20/07 6:47 PM | Reply
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