Well, "United" States.... it's been a pretty decent run.
Not many countries can say that they've reached their 250th birthday.
Neither can we, as it turns out.
Here's French band Fall of Saigon with their version of "The End," the 1967 psychedelic epic from The Doors.
For more Doors covers, Episode Six's version of "Light My Fire" can be found here, Skald's version of "Riders on the Storm" can be found here, and Blues Traveler's version of "Roadhouse Blues" can be found here.
Like a famed Robert Frost poem of yore, two roads have diverged in a yellow wood, and there's like a third teeny trail going nowhere that we'll call Jill Stein.
Anyway. Two roads. Yellow wood.
I encourage those who are 18 years older and registered to get out and vote, if you haven't already.
Here's Sydney, Australia female fronted post hardcore outfit The Sweet Apes with their take on the 2012 release "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."
Chosen for pretty obvious reasons.
That it's originally a Taylor Swift song is just the icing on the cake.
For more Taylor Swift covers, Equiz' version of "Blank Space" can be found here, and Against the Current's version of "Shake it Off" can be found here.
For a cover by Tay Tay, her version of "Riptide" can be found here.
So, for my regular reader(s)..... I will be preparing two posts for tomorrow.
Tomorrow, the new post will publish between 5:00 and 5:10 PM EST, instead of between 5:00 and 5:10 AM, as I won't know the election results until then, and won't know which cover to put up on ye olde blog.
I'd MUCH prefer posting one over the other.
Vote.
It's my sister's birthday!
So, I went looking for a decent cover of "Sister," the 1995 post grunge single from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma alternative group The Nixons.
I had to sift through quite a bit of garbage on YouTube. Sorry, vast majority of bands covering this. Just didn't work. Valiant effort, but.... nope.
I do like this one, though.... brought to us by the Philippines based band Homegrowl.
Fearless Soul have a large web presence with virtually no biographic information available. Based on their collaborations, I'm guessing that they hail from Vancouver, Canada.
Here, they cover "Forever Young," a 1984 hit for Munster, Germany synth pop band Alphaville.
Save for a thirteen second lapse in judgement (between 1:08 and 1:21... What the hell was THAT?), Kilmarnock, Scotland trio Biffy Clyro perform a barry rendition of fellow Scots Franz Ferdinand's 2004 dance rock single "Take Me Out."
Check out the photo of the band in the montage between 3:01 and 3:10 and tell me that they don't look like a supergroup comprised of Booger from "Revenge of the Nerds." Prince Harry, and one of the Weasley brothers.
Yes, ALL saints. Even pale ones.
So, here's Sao Paulo, Brazil shoegaze band Old Magic Pallas with their version of "Sight of You," originally performed in 1989 by Leeds, UK alternative group Pale Saints.
