Covering the covers

I've recently received a bit of stick from a very close friend of mine because of a perceptible contempt I have with covers bands.

I don't totally hate these bands. Especially the ones that do their covers while adding their own spin to these songs. I saw a band at Banana Joe's in downtown MPLS nine years ago that did amazing Prince covers. And of course, there's Me First & The Gimme Gimmes who are the world's greatest covers band.



So, in honor of my dear friend who loves covers and the bands that play them, here are my all-time greatest covers:

Blue Meanies - "Stone Cold Crazy" (Queen)

Guttermouth - "Happy Loving Couples" (Joe Jackson)

The Hanson Brothers - "Get It Right Back" (Maxine Nightingale)

The Hippos - "Our Lips are Sealed" (GoGos)

Less Than Jake - "I Think I Love You" (Partridge Family)

Limp - "Holiday Road" (Lindsey Buckingham)

No Use For a Name with Cynder Block - "Fairytale of New York" (The Pogues)

Mustard Plug - "The Freshman" (Verve Pipe)

The Queers - "Don't Back Down" (The Beach Boys)

Ted Leo - "Since U Been Gone" (Kelly Clarkson)

You Know What Really Grinds Me Gears??-Auto-Tuning

Here is another segment of "You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?"

Now granted I don't know much about R&B and Rap music. I mentioned my lack of knowledge in that department on my M.I.A. rant before. But every once in a while Rap/R&B and I run into each other. Whether it's on our basic TV channels, a song comes up somewhere...etc

These two larger then life singers, Kanye West and T-Pain are all over the music world, but I don't know why. I've heard some of their songs, and for some reason they use the infamous Auto-Tune on their music whether it's live or in the studio. Kanye has put himself over every musician, but he uses this stupid effect. If he's so damn good, why does he need to be auto-tuned? It makes himself look like a stupid robot? T-Pain is the same way. Another goofy user of 

the auto-tune.

And they say they're larger then life. They can't even stay in tune naturally.