Palliativity 211: cover me

I love covers. They allow you to experience a band or song in a completely new way.

The best covers are not mere renditions, but when an artist totally geeks-out on a song enough to completely reinterpret the composition with their own aesthetic and style.

Some combinations can even help you learn to love those tunes you hate. It’s really jarring when I find myself able to sing along to incidental waiting-room pop radio without having heard the original tune more than once. Interweb sound-stages like youtube only serve to make this crossover culture deeper and more complex every day.

The stranger the juxtaposition, the better the results:

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