Not sure if I should have put this in the cool video thread but this is a Christmas ad running in the UK with Elbow covering The Beatles. I remember reading an interview once with Patrick Carney where he said bands should never cover The Beatles as they will only embarrass themselves. I think this ad and cover is pretty great.
Artichoke’s newest album, Echoes, is a collection of songs about songs, including ten stylistically-warped covers alongside four originals. Timothy Sellers (Artichoke) and musical guests recorded this oblique reinvention of pop music from the twentieth century at his studio in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Sellers’ choice of covers is eclectic, with selections from The Kinks, Blur, John Lennon, Camper Van Beethoven, Jimmy Buffett, Tom Waits, Robyn Hitchcock, the Ramones, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Billie Holiday. Perhaps the most unexpected amongst the lot is Buffett’s overplayed “Margaritaville,” which Artichoke outfits with a sitar and minor chords in a test case to answer the question of just how far a song can be stretched before it becomes something else. “Imagine” gets re-imagined in psychedelic 6/8 time. “Take the Skinheads Bowling” is the inspired multi-tempo follow up. Williams’ very last song grooves like early Beck with a flock of crows and a distorted drum kit, while “Folsom Prison Blues” is sung from high atop a shoegaze plateau. The album concludes with a rocking postmodern take on “What a Little Moonlight Can Do.”
That Frightened Rabbit AVC session is so really good. "Good Arms vs. Bad Arms" is powerful live. RIP Scott.
It sucks that they're not doing AV Undercover this year. The AV Club has gone so far downhill since Univision bought them. I'm not sure how much longer it'll be around.
