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Yee! Dr Dog is the best band around! Bleedat!

Posted by: clay at August 11, 2009 3:01 AM
on 12. Dr. Dog - "Find The River"

I can't believe they're still around! got to hand it to them. I remember listening to this band, Simply Red and Hoodoo Gurus back in the late 80's/early 90's. Shiny Happy People and Everybody Hurts are still in my fav's list, missed Bill Berry when he quit in '97 though.

Posted by: osorio at May 24, 2009 9:12 AM
on Sweetness Followed: 15 Years After Automatic

I'm just hearing this tribute for the first time. I think this one rules.

Posted by: Brian at February 27, 2009 2:01 PM
on 4. Meat Puppets - "Everybody Hurts"

I love REM, and I usually adore Amanda, but this was awful. I have never heard Amanda's voice sound so terrible.

Posted by: Rabbit at February 6, 2009 5:56 PM
on Amanda Palmer (The Dresden Dolls) & Cormac Bride

R.E.M. used to be my favourite band in the late 90's, Wrens in the early 00's and somehow I like it that they fucked up this song in such spectacular way. It sounds like it took them only 2 or 3 takes to publish it, and like they didn't really care about final effect. jangly guitar in the background is lovely, but the tempo is def. bad and singing is awful. Charles' review of the song is actually really interesting

Posted by: Piotrek at January 15, 2009 6:15 AM
on 11. The Wrens - "Nightswimming"

This is what Sidewinder might have sounded like if it was recorded for Up instead of AFTP. I love it. :)

Posted by: Madz at December 20, 2008 10:33 AM
on 3. Rogue Wave - "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"

.. so AFTP was the album they found in Cobain's player post-suicide.

Posted by: k at November 26, 2008 12:48 PM
on 4. Meat Puppets - "Everybody Hurts"

This ia a very nice version of the song. In fact, I like it better.

Posted by: Netbob at September 7, 2008 4:21 AM
on Ferraby Lionheart - "Man On The Moon"

Muito legal essa atituide tomada pela stereogum, os covers estão sendfo muito bem feitos... Adorei

Posted by: Julio Cesar Benevenuto at July 11, 2008 5:31 PM
on Sweetness Followed: 15 Years After Automatic

Crap. Boring, uninspired, flat. And that awful thump-thump generic house beat during the chorus? Ugh. Sounds like my cousin Eddie coulda made this track in Garage Band.

Posted by: Lawson at July 8, 2008 1:19 PM
on 10. Shout Out Louds - "Man On The Moon"

Does this album exist for sale on a cd? Or at the very least, are there any higher quality downloads available? Flac, maybe...

Posted by: Tom at June 6, 2008 11:37 AM
on 6. Sara Quin (Feat. Kaki King) - "Sweetness Follows"

I really like this stuff! But unfortunately the Amanda Palmer song doesnt want to be downloaded...

Posted by: Roland at June 3, 2008 11:08 AM
on Sweetness Followed: 15 Years After Automatic

I am sorry guys, good try but where is the MAGIC of the original?

Posted by: Michael at March 15, 2008 9:51 AM
on 11. The Wrens - "Nightswimming"

I absolutely love this version...maybe even more than the original. Very well done Elk City!!

Posted by: Melanie at February 28, 2008 7:50 PM
on Elk City - "Everybody Hurts"

You completely fucked up Find the River. This was once my favorite song and you had to turn it into some circus act acid trip song and ruin the whole meaning. FUCK YOU for doing it!!!!

Posted by: Greg Spiller at February 22, 2008 3:21 AM
on 12. Dr. Dog - "Find The River"

I'm sort of disappointed in Rogue Wave's version of "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite". It's okay, but I was hoping for a new sound that contained more adrenaline than that. Oh well. "Man On The Moon" wasn't bad.

Posted by: Hannah at February 13, 2008 2:30 PM
on Sweetness Followed: 15 Years After Automatic

i love r.e.m. and don't say this lightly- this cover is better than the original. amazing work.

Posted by: beth at January 20, 2008 11:38 AM
on 9. Blitzen Trapper - "Star Me Kitten"

Man this version sucks butt with the multiple voices and slower gayness, while the original was REM's best song in my opinion. Shame on you

Posted by: You suck at January 15, 2008 7:05 PM
on 2. Dappled Cities - "Try Not To Breathe"

Lovely and sweet; makes me want to smile whereas the original is very solemn to me.

Posted by: rk bond at December 16, 2007 2:15 AM
on 12. Dr. Dog - "Find The River"

This is really disappointing. Ignoreland was such a formative proto-punk song for me as a thirteen-year-old and any reasonable cover would have amped up those angry qualities, not toned them down to lame, musically spineless whining. Very poor choice.

Posted by: rk bond at December 16, 2007 1:55 AM
on 8. The Forms - "Ignoreland"

This is a ridiculously good cover of that song. I saw these guys in Seattle and they are an incredible band. Their original material blows me away.

Posted by: Chris Haines at December 7, 2007 2:20 PM
on 1. The Veils - "Drive"

SCHITTERENDE versie van DRIVE

Posted by: diego at November 24, 2007 12:29 PM
on 1. The Veils - "Drive"

like i said to frida herself in july (i bet she's forgotten it though), she's probably the best female singer in sweden. at least in my taste. it's her and miss li.

Posted by: amanda at November 22, 2007 7:38 AM
on Frida Hyvönen - "Everybody Hurts"

I'd say that Curt & Cris are both mocking and honoring this song at the same time. That's their approach to just about everything, their own music included. For this long-time fan of both bands, it's a little fun and at the same time moving, but not very much so in either sense.

Posted by: Evan at November 16, 2007 12:35 AM
on 4. Meat Puppets - "Everybody Hurts"

Phenomenal! Bands that not just do a karaoke-like-cover always get me off!

Love it!

Posted by: Mike at November 14, 2007 11:58 AM
on 3. Rogue Wave - "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite"