Luckily Bright Eyes pull it off along with Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit by using a Gameboy-style synth to manipulate your nostalgic tendencies. That’s not a quality Jack White seems capable of producing in music, but with these guys, it’s a danger. It must be difficult to cover this primary school-themed song without making it sound horrendously maudlin. It’s weird for bleeping synths – and even more jarringly, drum machines – to have anything at all to do with the Stripes, but that makes the survival of the track’s essence all the more impressive.īright Eyes & First Aid Kit – ‘We’re Going To Be Friends’ Released only on vinyl as a B-side to single ‘Thunderbird’, this cover clothes the fuzzy original in sharp, slick electro. The Golden Filter – ‘The Hardest Button to Button’ Factor in the echoing vocals and this cover takes on an identity of its own – which, as the huge number of faceless ‘SNA’ cover versions out there show, isn’t easy with this song. Theirs is a bold, hefty version that rattles the eardrums with spiky bass and an added police siren. On The Flaming Lips’ own curated album they chose to take on ‘Seven Nation Army’. Late Night Tales often produces interesting covers – Django Django’s cover of The Monkees’ ‘Porpoise Song’, or Midlake’s version of Black Sabbath’s ‘Am I Going Insane’, to name but a few. The result spins what was a menacing siren song into something almost upbeat, but that’s no real surprise – this was recorded for a Christmas album called ‘Tinsel and Lights’. Nice one, Of Montreal!Īccompanied by a lilting guitar part, the Everything But The Girl singer pitches this one far lower than Meg White, and swaps ominous bass for pretty liberal use of the drumkit. ![]() But all of a sudden you’re listening to actual garage-rock, on perhaps one of the most faithful White Stripes covers you’ve ever heard. You’d expect these loveable psychedelic weirdos to utterly deconstruct the original track: chirpy synths, dramatic arrangements, vocal acrobatics, the lot.
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