MP3 of the Week

I have been addicted to the Hype Machine lately. Yesterday The Gotham Gal decided she wanted to start putting a cover song on each Positively 10th Street podcast. So we went to the Hype Machine, typed the word cover into the search field and got a list of amazing covers that had been posted on blogs in the past week.

She picked the David Gray cover of the Killer's Smile Like You Mean It, but my favorite is Ray Lamontagne's cover of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy. As much as I like the original, I like Ray's version better. Acoustic guitar with soulful singing. Excellent!

Crazy Gnarls Barkley cover by Ray Lamontagne

Comments

[Dan]

Damn, that is a sweet version of Crazy by Gnarls Barkley. Thanks for posting, I have already sent links to numerous friends.

[Megan Cunningham]

Hey Fred,
Coincidentally, last weekend in Montauk 2 of my friends at different times put on covers of CRAZY. They were all totally amazing - like major stand-outs, in my opinion. (Of course one is a music journalist, and another a tech journalist, so it's no surprise.)

Anyway, when I read your post I realized that was not one of the ones we had listened to. How many damn covers of this song are there anyway??

Thought I'd pass along the best one we were grilling Montauk fish to...

Nelly:
http://this.bigstereo.net/2006/05/31/nelly-furtado-gnarls-barkley/

And the secret source of the samples:
http://musicforants.blogspot.com/2006/06/evolution-of-crazy.html

[Jeff]

Nice. Listening to that makes me wish Ted Hawkins was still alive to cover that song. It would have been so perfect. Here's a link to some TH on iTunes, which I realize flies in the face of your post above, but it's not eMusic yet!

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=3451541&s=143441

[kas]

Anyway, when I read your post I realized that was not one of the ones we had listened to. How many damn covers of this song are there anyway??