Blog: Cover Lay Down

Covered in Folk: R.E.M. (Redbird, Great Big Sea, Rosie Thomas, Grant Lee Phillips and more!)

Apr 4, 2009, 10:23pm Cover Lay Down
Covered in Folk: R.E.M. (Redbird, Great Big Sea, Rosie Thomas, Grant Lee Phillips and more!) I enjoy a good challenge. So when a recent and otherwise well-written treatise on the socio-economic function of cover songs past and present declared the R.E.M. catalog "too cryptic to survive being covered", I set out to amass a collection of songs which would prove the author wrong. My dubious pursuit was confounded a bit by a long-time personal apathy for R.E.M.'s particularly angsty, often melodramatic performance style, as filtered through frontman Michael Stipe's voice and phrasing, which just aren't to taste. Sure, there's a few songs I wouldn't change the station [...]
Artist:Cry Cry Cry
Title:Fall on Me (R.E.M. cover)
Link Text:Cry Cry Cry: Fall On Me
File Name:fallonme.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:Cry Cry Cry
Title:Fall On Me (R.E.M. cover)
Link Text:in-studio cover
File Name:fallonmelive.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2000
Artist:Ferraby Lionheart
Title:Man On The Moon (R.E.M. cover)
Link Text:Ferraby Lionheart: Man on the Moon
File Name:manonthemoon.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:Frida Hyvönen
Title:Everybody Hurts (R.E.M. cover)
Link Text:Frida Hyvonen: Everybody Hurts
File Name:fridahurts.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:Glen Hansard
Title:Hairshirt (R.E.M. cover)
Link Text:Glen Hansard: Hairshirt
File Name:hairshirt.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Artist:Grant Lee Phillips
Title:So. Central Rain (R.E.M. cover)
Link Text:Grant Lee Phillips: So. Central Rain
File Name:socentralrain.mp3
Bitrate:139 kbps
Year:2006
Artist:Great Big Sea
Title:It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (R.E.M. cover)
Link Text:Great Big Sea: Its The End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
File Name:endoftheworld.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:R. E. M.
Title:Gentle On My Mind (John Hartford cover)
Link Text:R.E.M.: Gentle On My Mind
File Name:gentleonmymind.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2001
Artist:R.E.M.
Title:First We Take Manhattan (Leonard Cohen cover)
Link Text:R.E.M.: First We Take Manhattan
File Name:manhattan.mp3
Bitrate:161 kbps
Artist:R.E.M.
Title:Wall of Death (Richard Thompson cover)
Link Text:R.E.M.: Wall of Death
File Name:wallofdeath.mp3
Bitrate:237 kbps
Year:1994
Artist:Redbird
Title:You Are the Everything (R.E.M. Cover)
Link Text:Redbird: You Are The Everything
File Name:youaretheeverything.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:Rosie Thomas
Title:The One I Love (R.E.M. cover)
Link Text:Rosie Thomas: The One I Love
File Name:theoneilove.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2006
Artist:The Coors
Title:Everybody Hurts (R.E.M.)
Link Text:The Corrs: Everybody Hurts
File Name:coorshurts.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:Tori Amos
Title:Losing My Religion (R.E.M. cover)
Link Text:Tori Amos: Losing My Religion
File Name:losingmyreligion.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:1995
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