Score! 20 years of Merge Records: The Covers!

01 Quasi: "Beautiful Things" (3 Ds cover)
02 Les Savy Fav : "Precision Auto" ( Superchunk cover)
03 The Shins: "Plenty Is Never Enough" (Tenement Halls cover)
04 St. Vincent and the National: "Sleep All Summer" (Crooked Fingers cover)
05 Broken Social Scene: "Complications" (The Clean cover)
06 Ryan Adams: "Like a Fool" ( Superchunk cover)
07 Bright Eyes: "Papa Was a Rodeo" (Magnetic Fields cover)
08 Lavender Diamond: "New Ways of Living" (Destroyer cover)
09 The Apples in Stereo: "King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 3" (Neutral Milk Hotel cover)
10 Laura Cantrell: "Cowboy on the Moon" ( Lambchop cover)
11 Bill Callahan: "Santa Maria" (Versus cover)
12 Barbara Manning: "Through With People" ( Portastatic cover)
13 The Mountain Goats: "Drug Life" (East River Pipe cover)
14 The New Pornographers: "Don't Destroy This Night" (Rock*A*Teens cover)
15 Tracey Thorn and Jens Lekman : "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!" (Magnetic Fields cover)
16 The Hive Dwellers: "My Noise" ( Superchunk cover)
17 Ted Leo & the Pharmacists: "The Numbered Head" (Robert Pollard cover)
18 Okkervil River: "All You Little Suckers" (East River Pipe cover)
19 Death Cab for Cutie: "Kicked In" ( Superchunk cover)
20 Times New Viking: "Neighborhood #1" (Arcade Fire cover)

was this meant to be a poll?

no,it's a new record.
some interesting choiced there

not in love with the song choices.. but interested to hear the tracey/jens track

Is Ted Leo delivering another sucker punch (up) to Robert there? I don't think I've liked him as much since I heard about his little fit and fight with GBV ... But hey - maybe he's making amends, and I wasn't there so I shouldn't be so quick to judge.

apples in stereo covering nmh seems pointless.

thorn/lekman cover mp3: http://letterarms.blogspot.com/2009/03/score-20-years-of-merge-records-covers.html

07 Bright Eyes: "Papa Was a Rodeo" (Magnetic Fields cover)

ugggghhghghghghghggghhhhhhhhhnoooooooOOOOOOOOOOOO

this is mostly pretty bad; highlights are les savy fav and bill callahan. the ryan adams cover of "like a fool" (one of my fave superchunk songs) is so terrible and embarrassing

ha ha i gotta go find that ryan adams cover--sounds awful

No Polvo cover. Oh well.

Callahan giving Versus some love is a great idea.

Plus, it's nice to see a couple East River Pipe tunes. They were pretty darn good.

Overlooked idea: Oakley Hall covering a tune off that Renderers single or Kurt Vile covering Butterglory.

What's the Ted Leo vs. GBV feud story?

gee, only four superchunk covers?

seems like a comp of mostly past it bands/artists. is that the point?

Times New Viking Doing Arcade Fire.
i waana listen to it, though im almost 100% sure i know how it will sound like

so lovely to hear tracey thorn's voice

shame it's on such a lame cover version

I like the cover a lot, and that she plays it completely straight. I miss the "and you can't sing/EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE" part, though.

ugggghhghghghghghggghhhhhhhhhnoooooooOOOOOOOOOOOO

OTM

esp. given that Rock*A*Teen Kelly Hogan has already crushed it <3

Never heard that Portastic song, but always happy to see Barbara getting work.

Quasi, Babs & MG's all work for me, & Apples hardly do a straight version of the NMH

Times New Viking Doing Arcade Fire.
i waana listen to it, though im almost 100% sure i know how it will sound like

unfortunately it does not rock out like you think it does.