Beck recently began a strange project where he has decided to cover entire albums in a 24 hour window. I’m not sure how impressed I am with the cover of “waiting for my man” but the cover of “sunday morning” is ace. I’m guessing there will be a few misses in this batch of tune, but when recording an entire album’s worth of songs in a day, one would expect this.
RW is no stranger to covers. The Clean, Bob Dylan, and The Troggs are a few artists we’ve attempted to meld into our setlists in the past. The great thing about covers, and what some musicians seem to miss, is that a band has the freedom to make it their own, even give the song new meaning. Cat Power does this brilliantly when covering “satisfation” by the Stones. As for Beck, we’ll see.