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Pet Sounds Weekly Playlist – Covers

Pet Sounds Weekly Playlist – Covers

A simple one this week. It’s rare you’ll hear a song performed by anyone other than its writer and be left with the impression it’s better than the original, but it’s always interesting to hear how things can be interpreted.

These are some decent covers, some close to the original – Joe Cocker’s version of ‘Feelin’ Alright’ by Traffic, Calexico’s ‘Alone Again Or’ by Love, some are radically different – ‘Crazy In Love’, slowed down into a torchsong epic by Antony & The Johnsons, Otis Redding’s ‘Respect’ given the Psych-Funk treatment by Rotary Connection and the parting shot is what many consider to be the defining cover version. Bob Dylan even took to performing ‘All Along The Watchtower’ the way that Jimi Hendrix had chewed it up and spat it out because he couldn’t justify going back to how he’d first performed it himself.

There’s loads more in the vaults, so expect a Vol. 2. But for now check this playlist HERE and all the past Pet Sounds playlists HERE.

01 Wish You Were Here – Sparklehorse (Pink Floyd)
02 Alone Again Or – Calexico (Love)
03 I Can’t Go For That – The Bird And The Bee (Hall And Oates)
04 Willow’s Song – Doves (Paul Giovanni)
05 Respect – Rotary Connection (Otis Redding)
06 Crazy In Love – Antony & The Johnsons (Beyonce)
07 Feelin’ Alright – Joe Cocker (Traffic)
08 Hard To Handle – The Black Crowes (Otis Redding)
09 Black Steel – Tricky (Public Enemy)
10 Mr Blue Sky – The Delgados (ELO)
11 To Cure A Weakling Child|Boy Girl Song – Adem (Aphex Twin)
12 Dear Prudence – Siouxsie And The Banshees (The Beatles)
13 Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime – Beck (The Korgis)
14 Baby, I Love You – The Ramones (The Ronettes)
15 All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix (Bob Dylan)


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