Of all the podcasts I listen to, one of the few I listen to nearly every single one is Coverville. A great podcast of nother but covers – remakes of songs made famous by someone else. If you haven’t found it and love creative music, you have got to check it out.
The cover countdown for 2006 is awesome, with the winner being Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt, originally done by 9 Inch Nails. I’ve been looking to use the video for a Lenten service this year. Its a masterpiece.
Just so you know, Matt Weddle came in at lucky number 13.
This was a request a couple of months back and I haven’t stopped listening to since then. Okay, I do like Outkast and liked the original, but this is so different and so acoustically kickin’, I just had to share it – Matt Weddle of Obadiah Parker doing Hey Ya.
If I can just get Matt Weddle out to do one of our postmodern nexus services – an Obadiah Eucharist, an Outkast Eucharist (I like the sound of that). Just have to figure out how to work hey ya into a sermon and get the congregation shakin’ it like a polaroid…
i met obadiah parker at a show here in phx. (where they lived, am assuming they still do)
anyway. yah, he’s awesome. good call
Hope they come up north some time to chi town.
Ben, wow! I have to say, I just liked the song but you see some things that I just didn’t pick up on and I have to say – you’re dead on in your appraisal of its postmodern/existential connections. I wonder how Matt saw it when he did this cover.
As far as Hurt, I’ll do a separate blog entry on that and put up a youtube link to the video.
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I totaly love this song, greatest cover i have ever heard