WE'RE UP ALL NIGHT TO GET LUCKY

More covers, more Daughter. Lovely things.

I WAS HOPING WITH CHANCE YOU MIGHT TAKE THIS DANCE

Daughter - Perth (Bon Iver) v Ready for the Floor (Hot Chip)

My love for a cover is well documented, my love for two covers stuck together is unparalleled, also, Daughter. Performed on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show a couple of weeks ago and pretty much as close to perfect as you can get.

MY LOVE WAS BORN ON A RAY OF SOUND

My love for a good cover remains strong with this one, St. Vincent's ridiculously good version of The Pop Group's She is Beyond Good and Evil - if you care for the excellent abuse of a good guitar, this one is quite clearly for you. If you just plain like St. Vincent like me, you should take some time to listen to her newast album Strange Mercy or at very least hit play below. You will not be sorry.

BRING ME A HIGHER LOVE

James Vincent McMorrow - Higher Love

For more on James Vincent McMorrow head in this direction.

WHITE ON WHITE

Nothing like a bit of Bauhaus to get a Monday well and truly started...and for kicks, a cover by nouvelle vague.


Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead


Nouvelle Vague - Bela Lugosi's Dead (Bauhaus Cover)

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I have a thing for bands covering songs, i have an even bigger thing for bands covering unexpected songs that you never knew you missed and/or never knew you liked the first time round... you can spot these gems thus-ly - when you hear the cover version you'll most likely be singing along, maybe not enthusiastically at first, but there'll definitely be a little self conscious lip syncing to start with. Secondly you'll most likely be frantically asking the good folk around you "what is that?!".

example no. 1 - Frightened Rabbit covering N-Trance's 'Set You Free' (1995)


example no. 2 New Young Pony Club cover Technotronic's 'Pump Up The Jam' (1989)


ps. my love for that last one is unparalleled, if anyone has an mp3 of the cover please send it this way...

BUTTER FOR MY PIECE OF BUN

It's a Lykke Li extravaganza of sorts, first up is the alternate version of the Breaking it up video, truly can't go wrong with bare bulbs, a bull horn and some crazy dancing...



Secondly comes Dance Dance Dance with some back up from Bon Iver, randomly live somewhere in LA (it's just crazy dancing and a water feature here, but it still works.)



and last but not least, a cover of I'm Good I'm Gone from Friendly Fires, Lykke Li's support on her UK tour I believe. It's starting to slightly overtake the original with me.... excellent stuff. Check out more from Friendly Fires over at their myspace, including the very cool and recently re-released Paris.


Friendly Fires - I'm Good, I'm Gone (Lykke Li Cover)