MeFi Music

A ripoff of a cover. Check the cover version that I ripped off, it's great.
posted by arxeef on Oct 15, 2022 - 0 comments

Cover of a Postal Service song. I'm pretty sure the song is ~actually~ about nuclear war, but the lyrics are weirdly appropriate for the pandemic. [more inside]
posted by kaibutsu on Jan 16, 2022 - 0 comments

More microKORG experimentation, this time a Gillian Welch cover. I've finally gotten around to listening to this album recently, and a lot; it's really latching on to me. The title track is gorgeous and where I can't match Welch's vocals I can get weird instead, so: vocoder time. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jul 24, 2020 - 5 comments

This is my synth-based anthem cover of the song by singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt. This version is an earlier draft from 2018, mostly from a whirlwind month when I was trying to get as much done before my trial of Ableton Live ended. Me on vocals, synth/loops. Many thanks to not_on_display for the arrangement idea and feedback through multiple iterations. Basically I made this to help myself feel better, and I figure it's something I could share especially now. [more inside]
posted by rangefinder 1.4 on Apr 1, 2020 - 9 comments

This is an endlessly rising Radiohead cover vignette; a section from Paranoid Android rises a whole step and repeats itself, and does so again, six times total, before returning to where it started, as a kind of large-scale take on the Shepard tone. [more inside]
posted by cortex on May 9, 2015 - 4 comments

A synthed out, vocoded take on Beck's extremely non-synthy song off of Sea Change, as an excuse to fiddle around with Reason 8. [more inside]
posted by cortex on May 5, 2015 - 6 comments

Some synthpop kids cover Just Can't Get Enough. Others cover Photographic. I'm in the second group. [more inside]
posted by infinitewindow on May 1, 2013 - 0 comments

Silly instrumental in 11/8.
posted by chococat on Mar 31, 2013 - 4 comments

Still on the horse, this time with a Beirut cover! This one took a lot longer, 3 nights of iPad work. Beirut usually has a lot of brass instruments, so this one was a real challenge, but I'm proud of how it came out. [more inside]
posted by lazaruslong on Aug 9, 2012 - 5 comments

I really have no explanation for what I was thinking on this.
posted by InfidelZombie on Jul 29, 2012 - 5 comments

Cover of the Carpenters song. [more inside]
posted by chococat on Dec 14, 2011 - 2 comments

Cover of The Rascals' song that was a Billboard #1 hit on the day I was born. With a bit of a nod to "The Model." [more inside]
posted by chococat on Jun 8, 2010 - 10 comments

My submission to the Music Challenge, July 2009 edition. Advice to the lovelorn john from Uncle Lou. [more inside]
posted by not_on_display on Jul 8, 2009 - 9 comments

Here's my version of the esteemed Mr. Cohen's paean to the religion of love. I dropped the rhythm and chord changes, and made a new melody. The very minimal accompaniment consists of three tracks from my trusty old JUNO 60 analog synth. That's it! Video version (photos by yours truly) at Vimeo and YouTube.
posted by flapjax at midnite on Jun 16, 2009 - 12 comments

Another Saladabar song. This is a rough mix of a song we were asked to cover for a compilation of 80s Japanese rock songs. [more inside]
posted by mexican on Aug 16, 2008 - 4 comments