From DefLeppard's 'Yeah!' to CatPower's 'The Covers Record,' we're taking a look at 10 under-appreciated covers albums
sound entirely hers – an especially astonishing feat considering one of the tunes in question is Nirvana's signature song "Smells Like Teen Spirit," which she recasts as a dark banjo nightmare featuring a spoken word detour. Equally arresting is her yearning take on Paul Simon's "Boy In the Bubble" and her lovely version of Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" .
Although he hardly imitates her vocal styling, the undercurrent of sadness flitting through his voice -- not to mention the precision of his enunciation -- makes him the perfect vehicle for irony-free takes on standards from the first half of the 20th century.For their 30th anniversary, all-female Japanese pop-punk trio Shonen Knife turned to genre progenitors the Ramones fora tribute album that zings by at breakneck speed.
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