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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.

I’ve never been a huge fan of The Smashing Pumpkins, there one of those bands that I cherry pick a songs from. Thirty-Three is one of their good ones though. They did a really nice job with the video.

I do not really know the band Sigur Ros really well. I have heard a lot of good things about them but I haven’t really taken the time to listen to them yet. However I did happen to see this video a couple years ago. An excellent example of “texture”, or at least what I think “texture” in film is.

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This a great looking video. The album the song is on is “Give Up” and is a great album. Plus there’s is an acoustic version of the song on the sound track for Garden State which is a pretty good movie that has an amazing sound track.

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This Beck video has been one of my favorite music videos since the first time I saw it back when I was in high school when I was in college. It represents why I watched way too much MTV and VH1 late at night (when they actually played music videos) looking for little gems among so much tripe.

Every time I see it I wonder about the symbolism, but it’s probably just something the director thought would be cool.
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