Max: The French Everyman

In 1966, the same year as the Jimi Hendrix Experience cover, Antoine meets Les Problemes and records a garagey French version of Hey Joe; only Joe becomes Max...and perhaps a bit more friendly?

Mp3 Antoine Rencontre Les Problemes / Hey Max (Cover of 'Hey Joe' / Billy Roberts, The Leaves, etc. 1966)

Here's a few non-cover tracks from Antoine Recontre Les Problemes.

Mp3 Antoine Rencontre Les Problemes / Je Ne Vois Rien (1966)

Wes Anderson, you should probably go ahead and use this one in your next film:

Mp3 Antoine Rencontre Les Problemes / Des Lendemains (1966)

Hoot Loove

The third girl I slept with used to call my penis my raison d'être.
--Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing, 76

MP3 Justus Kohncke / Hot Love
(remix of Wolfgang Voigt's T. Rex cover ft Meloboy, 2004)

MP3 Wolfgang Voigt / Hot Love (T. Rex instrumental cover, 2003)

MP3 Elf Power / Hot Love (T. Rex cover, 2002)

MP3 T. Rex / Hot Love (1972)

8th Grade Dance

IN SWEDEN
Jens Lekman - Water Runs Dry (Boyz II Men Cover)

If I Have A Cold and Long Milkshake and You Have A Cold and Long Milkshake

Am I cheating by posting a cover from a new album composed exclusively of covers? Probably... nonetheless, here's The Postmarks' version of 'Five Years' from By the Numbers... Hangovers inspire the apocalyptic...

Mp3 The Postmarks / Five Years (David Bowie Cover)

And, as a bonus, my baby and soul are crushed for your listening pleasure.

Mp3 The Postmarks / 7-11 (Ramones Cover)

This Mortal Coil

We David Lynch augury...

from Modern English / Mesh & Lace LP (1981)
MP3 Gathering Dust
MP3 Sixteen Days

full This Mortal Coil / Sixteen Days-Gathering Dust EP (1983)
MP3 Sixteen Days-Gathering Dust (Modern English medley cover)
MP3 Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley cover)
MP3 Sixteen Days (Modern English cover)

uniqa in ya speaka

MP3 MF Doom / All Outta Ale (Blockhead remix, 2004)

Close your legs and open your mind.
--conventional wisdom quoted on KXLU's Demolisten 2008-06-06

If you will it...

MP3 Hazel Nuts Chocolate / Wild Wild Summer (Flipper's Guitar cover)

"The chocolate city is no dream!"

--DJ during a funky ass set on KCRW 99.9 FM at 12:05AM on 2008-11-07

May the power of power compel you.

MP3 The Fugs / Exorcising the Evils Spirits out of the Pentagon
(1967-10-21)

MP3 The Fugs / Mutant Stomp
(cover of Charles Olson's "I Want to Know," 1966)

MP3 Dump / Morning Morning
(Fugs cover, 1995)

"At the beginning of Discourse Networks 1800/1900 stood the Fugs with their song 'Exorcizing the Evils Spirits out of the Pentagon.' At the end stand words that have brought other words onto a screen.

"There is no end to the writing of books, wrote the preacher. Even books written to bring about the end of books and of their ordering submit to this pronouncement."
--Friedrich Kittler, "Afterword," Discourse Networks 1800/1900

"For the first time in the history of the Pentagon, there will be a grope-in within a hundred feet of this place."
--Tuli Kupferberg, "Exorcising the Evils Spirits out of the Pentagon"

Daniel: 'But Gaawwwdd, I don't wanna be in the lion's den'

A little of that old time religion (seemed logical after the New York Dolls), I pray it's good enough for you.

Mp3 Prof. Johnson & His Gospel Singers / Give Me That Old Time Religion (Cover of ? Possibly the Fisk Jubilee Singers)