Cover me in makeup-Shake up!

Covers are a fine thing, especially if well executed as a tribute to the original. For me covers shouldn’t be about making a perfect replica of the original, although Placebo would argue otherwise. Covers should be about your appreciation of a song and how you would convey the message the song sings. It doesn’t have to be vastly different it just has to be stylised to the covering bands persona otherwise its just the original sang by someone else, like a teenager with a hairbrush!

We Are Scientists have absolutely no grasp of Icelandic (I checked) but they do have a love for Sigur Ros that stretches miles. This is their cover of Hoppipolla, strictly acoustic but amazingly brought together and rather well, yet ever so slightly tongue in cheek, vocalised.

Tom Jones is a man, hes a real man, a man with chest hair and a voice that could strip even the most chastised of ladies to a desperate sex fiend. That said I am not entirely sure he should be doing covers of the Arctic Monkeys, but give him ten points for effort.

If pretty was a song it would be Julie Doiron doing a cover of Me and Julio Down by the School Yard, originally by Paul Simon. The Canadian Julie Doiron has been singing pretty songs for years no, through bands and her solo career. This is no different, but thankfully in English, and is a great tribute to Simons classic, which in itself has a big buzz on the lyricists forums. Truman Capote was under then impression that ‘me’ and ‘Julio’ were children experimenting with homosexuality in the school yard. This would certainly explain “What mama saw, was against the law”

We Are Scientists – Hoppipolla
Tom Jones – I Bet That You Look Good on the Dance Floor
Julie Doiron – Me and Julio Down by the School Yard