Such Great Heights [covers]

[mr.awesome]

Im sure, or at least certainly hope you guys are acquainted with The Postal Service, well anywho, their most popular song by far has been Such Great Heights, and its been covered by just about every musical genre and its cousin. well.. my friend found this a few weeks back.. it was a metalcore take on the song.

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncK6IuY8OA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncK6IuY8OA[/YOUTUBE]

thoughts?

feel free to post your favourite cover versions of the song too!

 

[Unkindloving]

thoughts?

Ow.

...I'll be back with a cover version after i sleep

 

[speculative]

Cool, I hadn't been exposed to The Postal Service actually. But, if "they have to speculate," they seem like they may be my kind of peeps.

 

[Unkindloving]

To go a pretty opposite route...
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUXOICk5jD4"]Amanda Palmer[/YOUTUBE]

I swear i have some other cover floating around my ipod, but can't think of by whom or if i'm just imagining things. (If so, probably some indie band that wouldn't even make the wiki page lol)

 

[mr.awesome]

^ that one was interesting..
she has an interesting voice.
very opposite direction indeed

heres a newer one that IMHO isnt very good at all.
a ska band doing a cover of it.

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdK_pNq3zRI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdK_pNq3zRI[/YOUTUBE]

tomas' voice just doesnt do this song justice.
neither do the brass instruments trying to replicate electronic beats.
but it is catchy. hahaha

 

[Loxias]

Never heard this song before. I found it very boring.
The cover was close to unbearable, although the bunch of ridiculous l'oréal-haired people in the video might be more than partly responsible.

 

[simulatedworld]

Never heard this song before. I found it very boring.
The cover was close to unbearable, although the bunch of ridiculous l'oréal-haired people in the video might be more than partly responsible.

INTP

 

[Loxias]

INTP

Is it a form of agreement with what I said, by insidiously blaming it on common NTP musical approaches?

 

[mr.awesome]

hahahaha ^___^
did you listen to the original?

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMOkfI7wCrI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMOkfI7wCrI[/YOUTUBE]

 

[simulatedworld]

Is it a form of agreement with what I said, by insidiously blaming it on common NTP musical approaches?

No, it's just an assessment of your type, since you have it listed as INxx and seem uncertain which one you are.

 

[Loxias]

Oh ok.

And yeah, I heard the original, it's the one I found boring. I aknowledge that my taste aren't universal, but I am having a really hard time understanding what made this song so popular.

 

[simulatedworld]

Oh ok.

And yeah, I heard the original, it's the one I found boring. I aknowledge that my taste aren't universal, but I am having a really hard time understanding what made this song so popular.

It's ~3 minutes long and has a repetitive melodic hook that gets stuck in people's heads and makes them want to hear it again.

 

[murkrow]

Man...

2004

NOSTALGIA!!!!!!!!!

 

[rhinosaur]

The ska version was the most bearable of the covers.

The original is pretty good. It reminds me of Radiohead, apart from the singer's voice. I like the video and the fact that they were in a semiconductor fab. Though as someone before me has mentioned, "I can't believe she just grabbed that wafer with her fingers!"

 

[valentine]

YouTube - Ben Folds' cover of Such Great Heights

 

[JTG1984]

Im sure, or at least certainly hope you guys are acquainted with The Postal Service, well anywho, their most popular song by far has been Such Great Heights, and its been covered by just about every musical genre and its cousin. well.. my friend found this a few weeks back.. it was a metalcore take on the song.

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncK6IuY8OA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncK6IuY8OA[/YOUTUBE]

thoughts?

feel free to post your favourite cover versions of the song too!

Yes that's crabcore, notice the stance of the guy on the left.

 

[Loxias]

Hahahha! Yeah, indeed!

 

[Beorn]

Many A Cappella groups have done the song, but I found this group to be the most entertaining overall... what with the dance moves and all.

[YOUTUBE="h9zb_Gr8iLc"]Postal Service Such Great Heights A Cappella (MIT Logs)[/YOUTUBE]