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Cover Art Oh, we know. Pinglewood has only been running a few months and already it’s being neglected- left to fend for itself, cold and alone, for days on end. Much like the little Viennese girl we keep in the cellar. But normal service has now been resumed. Sorry, we promise to feed her at least every other day. The LCD Soundsystem pre-tour warm-up at Cargo on Monday was amazing for many reasons, but when Yeah turned into a 1000-watt acid house freak out, then switched up into hammering Berlin techno, before finally, magically transforming into an inspired cover of Paperclip People’s Throw we knew we’d be yammering on about this show for a good long while. We usually love any cover version regardless of quality, but good covers require a special kind of alchemy. On the one hand, as Louis Walsh is prone to jabber during every one of his X-Factor comments, acts should “really make the song their own.” Lovely Leslie Feist scores points here with Sea Lion Woman, her take on Nina Simone’s classic See-Line Woman, which has become a staple of her live shows. She flips the words around, tweaks the instrumentation and delivers the song in that breathlessly pretty way of hers. A recorded version is finally available on the Canadian chanteuse brand new, sure to be star-making, album The Reminder. Other covers sound like they’ve always existed. Not just because they’re faithful to the original, but that they reveal so much about the covering artist. Peter, Bjorn & John’s version of Paul Simon’s Me & Julio Down by the Schoolyard is like that. There is even whistling. Some of our favourite versioning occurs on an album that’s ever present on the Pinglepod, The Third Wave’s Here & Now. In 1969 five teenage Philippino sisters somehow ended up in a Swedish studio with the great George Duke and recorded some of the most giddily exciting harmonies we’ve heard. Our favourite changes all the time but for now it’s their take on Eleanor Rigby. It's fresh as a daisy and bursting with youthful abandon. Feist - Sea Lion Woman [mp3] [Buy] Peter, Bjorn & John - Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard [mp3] [source: My Old Kentucky Blog] The Third Wave - Eleanor Rigby [mp3] [currently out of print but you can usually pick up the 1999 Crippled Dick reissue on Ebay] Posted by: Scott 09/03/07