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Here’s the music video for Fiona Apple’s cover of The Beatles “Across The Universe”. The song is part of the sound track for for the movie Pleasantville, and there is an interesting tie-in with the movie, the music video is a scene that was from the story, but not in the movie (the soda shop gets trashed, but you never see it happen in the movie). The movie it self was ok, but not great.

I have not really listened to much of Fiona Apple’s music, she falls in to the same category as Tori Amos and Alanis Morissette obviously talented, but most of their stuff is not for me. Having said that, this video is really well done, nice juxtaposition of the music and the images.
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Jonathan Coulton has a very interesting rise to “fame” (popular enough to make a living being a musician). He has done it with out the help of a record company. Probably his best promotional tool is making it as easy as possible to listen to his music (including giving it away). He has lots of really good songs. You should check out his website where you can listen and download lots of his music for free. I saw him in concert last winter, it was a lot of fun. Here is his cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby got back”.

Warning: This songs contains some suggestive lyrics (but you have probably heard them before).

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“Hey Ya” by Outcast is one of the few hip hop songs I have actually enjoyed. It always reminds me of college. It got over played though. Anyway, there’s a great cover of “Hey Ya” by some guy called Mat Weddle, who’s in some band called “Obadiah Parker”, no idea of he’s cool, or if his band is good, I found this surfing YouTube. However it does look like they are worth following up on.

Note: He messes up the song, then starts over, so if you want to here the song uninterrupted skip ahead to about 1:00 minute into the video.

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Jenny Owes Youngs is still in my music inbox, however I have managed to listen to her cover of Nelly’s Hot in Herre, several dozen times. Hopefully I’ll get to more of her music soon.

Warning, this song is probably PG-13.

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I’m going to start up a new series of posts. “Acoustic covers of rap/hip hop songs” that I like. I’ll start by admitting I don’t really like rap/hip hop music. Some songs are ‘ok’, if I’m in the right mood, a few I have even enjoyed from time to time, but I’ve never bought a rap/hip hop album, and I doubt I ever will. We’ll see though, I’d like to think my music tastes are not beyond “evolving”.

Despite what I just said, I do have to admit that there are a lot of really great lyrics written for rap/hip hop. I used to think the only way to get to listen to them, was to suffer through the actual song, or possibly some sort of techno remix.

Fortunately some thoughtful folk/rock and roll artists have been thoughtful enough to start covering these songs with some pretty good results. So over the next few weeks I’m going to post some of my favorites.