Covers Tuesday I
January 15, 2008
As I sat in my classroom teaching all day, I could not get two songs out of my head. It is difficult to teach about the Spanish-American War (1898) while simultaneously mind-jiving to these two ditties in your noggin. First up is a cover of the Beyonce smash “Crazy in Love.” (As it so happens, I jokingly lied to my students earlier in the year that I had dated Beyonce Knowles. This was done only to make myself seem cool. It did not work.) This one is by The Magic Numbers. There is another cover of this song out there, maybe for another day…
The second is a song by Architecture in Helsinki that I thought, until today was a cover of a Dr. Dog song. Turned out to be vice versa (just like my prediction of the kids’ reaction to the news of my ex-beau). Such is life. Enjoy MP3s below.
Buy Beyonce ft. Jay-Z or The Magic Numbers/MP3: The Magic Numbers-Crazy in Love
Buy Architecture in Helsinki or Dr. Dog/MP3: Dr. Dog-Heart It Races
By coincidence or not, these were both discovered by my new favorite podcast, KCRW’s “Today’s Top Tune.” iTunes them.
Entry Filed under: Covers Tuesday, MP3. Tags: Architecture in Helsinki, Beyonce, Dr. Dog, Spanish-American War, The Magic Numbers.
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maxwellpage | January 15, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Anyone else heard another “Crazy in Love” cover? By who?