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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog-Ish

Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:26 am

the official playlist doesn't have all of the videos? these guys (the AV Club in 2018) really suck from a presentation angle

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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog-Ish

Post by kouharti » Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:31 am

mindwarped wrote:haha everyone, I'm so lonely
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i have heard of ... exactly one of these bands now. because you posted gogol. although, i think somebody did post one of these covers before. the fugazi one

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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog-Ish

Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:33 am

kouharti wrote:
mindwarped wrote:haha everyone, I'm so lonely
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i have heard of ... exactly one of these bands now. because you posted gogol. although, i think somebody did post one of these covers before. the fugazi one
Filthy Friends has Peter Buck from REM!

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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog-Ish

Post by kouharti » Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:37 am

mindwarped wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:20 am it's got soul.

edit: unlike overwatch
this should get a robot hug too. while i google which one peter buck is

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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog-Ish

Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:38 am

#25 Atlas Genius — "Only Wanna Be With You" (Hootie And The Blowfish)


nope. same problem as the TLC cover. the original song is goofy, don't try so hard! it's not terrible by itself, but in context it evokes pat boone doing an alice cooper cover. that's not good.

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Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:43 am

#26 Cap'n Jazz — "100%" (Sonic Youth)


uhh, another competent cover. one MLPET, I guess

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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog-Ish

Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:45 am

#27 Will Arnett — "Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters" (GQ)


haha, sex in the city. that's what we love you for, will. I guess that's all of the videos? it's really hard to tell

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Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:49 am

#28 Cory Lott — "Wonderwall" (Oasis)


not an AV undercover cover, but this was in the recommended videos under the will arnett interview. it's really good!

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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog-Ish

Post by Juri » Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:53 am

mindwarped wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:33 am haha everyone, I'm so lonely
im reading these!
covers are cool
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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog-Ish

Post by Juri » Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:53 am

I also do not know the bands really, but you gotta respect the MSOWWOA
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Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:00 am

#29 Steve 'n' Seagulls — "Sabotage" (Beastie Boys)


I almost forgot about this one! I just dug it up. I had a playlist of AV undercover videos from the past that I liked, but they deleted like 80% of them. what are you doing, people? it's legal crap, I'm guessing. I hope these videos aren't gone forever.

these guys are from finland :clopspatriot: this isn't the AV club version, but it's still really solid

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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog-Ish

Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:07 am

Juri wrote:I also do not know the bands really, but you gotta respect the MSOWWOA
I don't know most of them either. they used to have more recognizable bands, it seems like

#30 They Might Be Giants — "Bills, Bills, Bills" (Destiny's Child)


this is perfect

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Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:09 am

#31 Punch Brothers — "Reptilia" (The Strokes)


another excellent cover from a previous year and that also has not yet been deleted

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Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:20 am

#32 Young the Giant — "Ignition (Remix)" (R. Kelly)


I remember being impressed with these guys, and then I listened to some of their original music and I appreciated this cover even more

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Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:25 am

#33 Wood Brothers — "P.Y.T." (Michael Jackson)


this one's just really nice. they manage to make a big sound for what they're working with

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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog and Old AVU Archive

Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:27 am

I just remembered one that I liked and then promptly forgot it. I'll remember it in a minute

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Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:29 am

oh yeah, here it is, goddamn

#34 Mountain Goats — "Boxcar" (Jawbreaker)


yeah

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Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:33 am

#35 Polyphonic Spree — Heart of Gold


this one's sort of overblown, but it's still really good

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Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:41 am

#36 Mac DeMarco — "Undone (The Sweater Song)" (Weezer)


now this is an ironic cover done correctly. these folks just kill song

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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog and Old AVU Archive

Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:43 am

#37 Baths — "All My Friends" (LCD Soundsystem)

I just remembered this one, but it appears to be gone off of the face of the earth. what the fuck, people. posting it here so there's a chance that I don't forget about it completely.

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Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:45 am

#38 Natalie Prass "Raining Blood" (Slayer)


a lot of bands do "reimaginings" in their own style, and often it doesn't work. this one does, though! it's funky and sort of deconstructed, but they find the song by the end. it's good stuff.

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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog and Old AVU Archive

Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:54 am

#39 Reggie Watts — "Panama" (Van Halen)



reggie scraps the original song for parts and forges it into the musical equivalent of a +1 vorpal blade (?)

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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog and Old AVU Archive

Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:03 am

#40 Xenia Rubinos — "Psycho Killer" (Talking Heads)


a counterpoint to #38 (and I guess #39)—I kind of like this one, I don't hate it, but it's too MUCH. there are a lot of covers like these

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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog and Old AVU Archive

Post by mindwarped » Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:12 am

#41 Sharon Van Etten — "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (Stevie Nicks / Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers)


one that I almost forgot about. no-frills cover, just a good performance

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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog and Old AVU Archive

Post by Pershore » Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:13 am

I really the sharp dressed man one :)
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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog-Ish

Post by Faceless » Thu Dec 13, 2018 1:00 pm

mindwarped wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:45 am sex in the city.
My favourite one of these is how "Roll and sausage" (ie a roll with sausage on it, as opposed to a sausage roll which is a sausage rolled in pastry) transformed to "Roll n sausage" which then became "Roll on sausage"
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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog and Old AVU Archive

Post by rianalnn » Thu Dec 13, 2018 1:36 pm

I'd lived over a decade without listening to a Hole song, darn you Phantogram.

TMBG nailed the last song they did for AV club, too, tubthumper or whatever that song is

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Re: AV Undercover Liveblog and Archive

Post by Crunchums » Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:47 pm

oh hey an excuse to post this
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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog-Ish

Post by Crunchums » Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:49 pm

mindwarped wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:08 am #11 Charly Bliss — "Steal My Sunshine" (Len)
i really like this album of theirs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=O ... lhCBrvt5BM
edit edit edit: I am very attracted to the singer. even though I KNOW nobody cares and why are you objectifying people?
nah dude post your posts, it's fun to read
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Re: AV Undercover Season 8 Liveblog-Ish

Post by Crunchums » Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:52 pm

mindwarped wrote: Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:40 am #16 Cloud Nothings — "Clocks" (Coldplay)

haha, they're too cool for coldplay! did you get that? please understand that this is not a serious performance. nevertheless, it almost works? it doesn't though. fuck these guys.
yeah i hated this performance. which is a bummer because i like a lot of their music. like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YDNvGe ... 0s&index=3
rad
and recently i started enjoying Life Without Sound as well
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=O ... MQOp34uous
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