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pseydtonne  ·  4183 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What cover songs do you think are well done?

Walt Mink's cover of Nick Drake's "Pink Moon". Sebadoh's cover clearly influenced the later Walt Mink version. Sebadoh is silly, which you would expect from an album whose title spins the title of John Entwistle's first solo album. Walt Mink really turns the song into something else, something bright.





ecib  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think silly is the last word I would use to describe Sebadoh's cover of Pink Moon. The guitar take on the piano riff is just soaring and the tone is out of this world imo. I'd personally go with "ferocious" and "awesome."

pseydtonne  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I should clarify "silly", as it has nothing to do with the instrumental performance. Low Barlow screaming the chorus is... okay, that's not silly.

Yes, it's silly. It was silly when I first played it on my first ever radio show in 1993. It's still silly. That's not a bad thing. It's just... silly.

cgod  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock by Sebadoh has a magnificent cover of Everybody's Been Burned Before, which is a Graham Nash song I think. I like that version of Pink Moon, don't know that I would call it silly.

AshShields  ·  4183 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh my god, I love Nick Drake, and I love Sebadoh, and I didn't know that existed. That's fantastic. And ridiculous. I love it.

Walt Mink's cover is pretty good, too. Not usually my sort of music anymore, but it's good. I've never heard that song sound so upbeat.