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October 30, 2008

Marnie Stern Covers "Don't Stop Believin'"

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It's fitting that Perpetua came upon this, since it was his great interview with Marnie that framed its significance: until now, the ruler of the CMJ '08, Ms. Marnie Stern, has never learned someone else's song. And she's broken that bit by covering Journey, which is precisely what you do when you're just letting loose at karaoke or just a virtuosic woman looking to blow minds via some cover love. Here "Don't Stop Believin'" gets fully rinsed and reconstructed through Marnie's taps, shreds, and hiccuping punk, making it the best thing to happen to Journey since YouTube.

Marnie Stern - "Don't Stop Believin'" (MP3)
(via MarnieSpace)

Now that you have the MP3, obviously the next step is to score The Sopranos finale with Marnie.

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k

who ?

Posted by: k profile link at 10/30/08 10:28 AM | Reply
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what?

Posted by: oh. at 10/30/08 10:38 AM | Reply
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grace6697

amrit, this crush is way outta control.

Posted by: grace6697 profile link at 10/30/08 10:38 AM | Reply
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Hey Dr Pepper instead of wasting your time with Lethal Weapen 5 why don't you help this girl out instead? It would be a win win. MORONS!

Posted by: Fazed Cookie at 10/30/08 11:58 AM | Reply
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k

she has something to do with Maroon 5?

Posted by: k profile link in reply to Fazed Cookie's comment at 10/30/08 3:45 PM | Reply
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virtuosic???

Posted by: nick at 10/30/08 12:22 PM | Reply
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she sorta looks like marion from raiders of the lost ark. with bigger teeth.

Posted by: zap at 10/30/08 12:27 PM | Reply
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is there a blogger conspiracy to prop and hype this girl up? seriously. maybe you bloggers are all friends with Marnie or something. but she is so unoriginal and cliche and she can't sing. stop trying to hype up your friends with no talent or originality.

Posted by: SoBad at 10/30/08 1:26 PM | Reply
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I like her....and I don't like anybody.

Posted by: Michael Quirk at 10/30/08 2:06 PM | Reply
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Petra Haden's a capella [sp?] version on the "Guilty By Association" comp is way WAY better.

Posted by: Eric at 10/30/08 2:55 PM | Reply
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i like her but her singing in this is ruff

Posted by: mattabramson profile link at 10/30/08 4:55 PM | Reply
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she's cute and stuff-related-to-her-being-cute-and-stuff, but this is 13 shades of durst.

Posted by: spencer at 10/30/08 6:33 PM | Reply
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Slightly off-tune, vocals drowning in fuzz, annoying squeaks and high pitched squeals in the last verse and chorus, a totally arbitrary change of tempo and THREE totally arbitrary changes in production infrastructure ...is this a joke? Plus, Jon Regen covered this song just this past year, a la Marc Cohn, and it dad-rocked -- check it out.

Posted by: boyhowdy at 11/01/08 8:04 PM | Reply
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@ Eric:

WRONG. I'm sorry, but Petra Haden stinks. She's also an asshole. A stinky asshole.

I SAID IT.

Posted by: Laurie at 11/02/08 7:53 PM | Reply
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i want to like her really bad but this isn't that special, it's actually pretty bad, im just being honest

Posted by: hmm at 11/03/08 1:32 PM | Reply
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This sounds like ASS.

Posted by: redmond profile link at 12/24/08 3:15 PM | Reply
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Music to my ears.

Posted by: Derek Barber at 03/24/09 6:40 PM | Reply
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If she reads all these shitty comments and doesn't do the Journey cover album I've been dreaming of, I swear I'm going to hunt you all down and kill you. This is so dope.

Posted by: Leah Pritchard at 05/12/09 12:08 PM | Reply
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