Sounds like a really good concept: Get a bunch of indie bands to do Fleetwood Mac covers for a tribute album. Fleetwood Mac have produced some of the greatest pop songs of all time, and the idea of a bunch of acts that I enjoy covering their songs is almost a dream come true for me.
Over the last several days, to tease the album's official release on August 14th via Starbucks's Hear Music/Concord, some of the tracks have been released on the Internet. Let's just say I'm looking forward to it a little less than I would have thought.
Here's the best of the bunch so far. It's Lykke Li covering "Silver Springs." There are some definite vocal similarities between Lykke Li and Stevie Nicks, and this is one of the covers I've heard so far that doesn't drain all of the emotion out of the original (the other being The New Porographers' version of "Think About Me.")
Pretty hard to top the Dixie Chicks' "Landslide."
ReplyDeleteVampire Weekend does a cover of "Everywhere" that I also like.
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