Artist / My Morning Jacket
Track / True Love Ways
Cover / Buddy Holly

True Love Ways

Anyone else tired of tribute albums yet? Feels like it’s been done to death but then you get a track listing that reads “The Black Keys, Julian Casablancas, Patti Smith, Modest Mouse, Paul McCartney, Lou Reed…” and it’s hard not to want to start Youtubing the tracks and posting them all over Facebook. Plus Buddy Holly is awesome and you can’t argue with that.

Artist / The Cheapmunks
Track / Say My Name
Cover / Destiny’s Child

Say My Name

The internet’s best art blog Booooooom has started a side project called the Cover Song Archive which is where we uncovered this gem. The Cheapmunks, from what we gather, are two kind of cheesy/dorky/extremely talented Pakistani girls fusing an urban desi sound with classic pop. Can’t speak for the rest of their music but at least they look like babes.

Artist / The Beach Boys
Track / I Can Hear Music
Cover / The Ronettes

I Can Hear Music

Originally performed by the Ronettes in 1966 after being written by the hit-making dream-team Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector, ‘I Can Hear Music’ was later covered by The Beach Boys in 1969. Their version soon became more popularised than the original, charting in the Top 10 for many countries around the world.