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NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts gets all these rave reviews for its production quality But tbh Triple J’s Like a Version blows it out of the water Especially giving artists the leeway to try genre switching Like Denzel Curry covering Rage Against the Machine for instance
Oh yeah, Triple J's Like A Version is incredible. I don't know what they've got in the water there but so many artists put out their best ever work with those covers. Here are some I like: - Someday (Julia Jacklin cover of The Strokes) - Love (CHVRCHES cover of Kendrick Lamar) - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (Arctic Monkeys cover of Tame Impala) - Do I Wanna Know (CHVRCHES cover of Arctic Monkeys) - Believe (DMA's…
Australian covers go back further in time, of course ...
The Wiggles famously covered AC/DC's It's a Long Way to the Shop (If You Wanna Sausage Roll)
and Rolf Harris infamously covered I Touch Myself originally by the Divinyls
These, and more, prompted by guest appearence's on Andrew Denton's Musical Challenge and collected on a couple of records (today on youtube etc.).