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We were so inspired by Jesse Lacey of (yes) Brand New's new cover of (yes) Neutral Milk Hotel that we decided a full-on Elephant 6 covers album by your faaaavorite chart-topping artists was badly needed. A complete wish-list track-list (and an MP3 of Lacey's cover) after the jump.
Timbaland ft. the Hives, "Silver Chain" (originally by the Apples in Stereo)
T-Pain ft. Yung Joc, "Dusk at Cubist Castle" (originally by Olivia Tremor Control)
Diddy ft. Keyshia Cole, "Train Song" (originally by Summer Hymns)
Gym Class Heroes ft. Patrick Stump, "The Sun Is Forever" (originally by Elf Power)
Kellie Pickler, "One Of A Very Few Of A Kind" (originally by Of Montreal)
DJ Khaled featuring Akon, T.I., Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Baby & Lil' Wayne, "Glue" (originally by the Gerbils)
R. Kelly Or Bow Wow (Featuring T.I. & T-Pain), 1st Imaginary Symphony By Vacuum Cleaner" (originally by the Music Tapes)
Fergie, "The Lonely Universe (Explicit Version)" (originally by Circulatory System)
Gwen Stefani, "Sparkly Green Couch (Remix ft. Ludacris)" (originally by Secret Square)
Akon ft. Akon, "When Father Was Away on Business (Remix ft. Akon)" (originally by Major Organ and the Adding Machine)
Nickelback, "High Atop the Silver Branches" originally by Elf Power)
Bon Jovi, "Big Giant" (originally by Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't)
Mark Ronson ft. Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse & S.O.B. (Some Other Bird), "Track 1 from Self-Titled" (originally by the Frosted Ambassador)
Snow Patrol, "Matter Vs. Space" (originally by Beulah)
Hinder, "Live to Tell All" (originally by Dressy Bessy)
Josh Groban & The African Children's Choir, "Sound's Around You (Oh No It Isn't Cried the Little Lord Funkleroy)" (originally by the Sunshine Fix)
Bonus track: Fall Out Boy ft. Ashlee Simpson, "Holland 1945" (originally by Neutral Milk Hotel)
Brand New - Oh Comely [MP3, link expired; via Sound Of The City]
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You can just go to hell.
That's the worst thing eve,
make this a regular feature plz
Akon ft. Akon just made me laugh out loud.
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Athens, GA is crying.
I recently heard an mp3 of that band Rock Plaza Central convincingly covering a Neutral Milk Hotel song called "My Children, Be Joyful"
http://www.rockplazacentral.com/joyful.mp3
What? What do you mean "they're not covering Neutral Milk Hotel?" Of course they are-- just listen!
What? What do you mean "Neutral Milk Hotel don't have a song called 'My Children, Be Joyful?' But...but, they must! Because if this isn't a band deliberately covering a Neutral Milk Hotel song in perfect imitation of Neutral Milk Hotel, then that means... Oh.
Oooooh.
Ok, never mind.
This is fun. I could have also used a Timbaland-Timberlake collaboration on "Tim, Wish You Born a Girl," in which they swap verses and look longingly into each other's eyes.
@Catbirdseat: hahaha
What? No Minders? No Secret Square?
@plasticaisle: no way would i forget secret square. they are there...
I'm waiting for Daddy Yankee's "Popular Mechanics for Lovers."
@maura:
Oops! You're right! And yes, that's def the song to cover.
Jesus, I'm such a dork.
@oovy: Even a Daddy Yankee cover of Beulah couldn't faze me ever since hearing the "Lumidee featuring Tony Sunshine Kazzanova Reggaeton Remix" of Swayze's "She's Like The Wind" blasting out of a hoopty rolling down Clinton Street the other day.
We'd have to have the Decemberists covering NMH on here, wouldn't we?
@Bob Loblaw: hahahahha! yes.
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