There are a bunch of exclusive perks only for patrons: playlists, newsletters, downloads, discussions, polls - hell, tell us what song you would like to hear covered and we will make it happen. Cover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. Also, check out more Kanye West covers in our archive. It aims somewhere underneath.ĭon’t own the original? Pick it up at Amazon, iTunes, or your local record store. Smallen’s folk ballad doesn’t look to rattle your ribcage like the original. The first time you listen to this, you keep waiting for the pounding drums to come in.
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Sadly, a recording of the full show doesn’t circulate, but Medlyn has covered several 808s tracks on the Our Hit Parade blog. Neal Medlyn – See You in My NightmaresĪn early adapter, Neal Medlyn (of Our Hit Parade fame) put on a full theatrical production of 808s, complete with a naked woman rubbing herself with BBQ pork while singing “Love Lockdown.” One audience member looked particularly bewildered: Kanye himself, who apparently broke down in tears during Medlyn’s finale. The vocal inflections sound like Tegan or Sara, but the angst is all Kanye. The least-covered song of the bunch, “Bad News” gets stripped down here with acoustic picking, stately piano chords, and fluttery singing. This highly-polished ballad sounds like a Lite FM hit for preteens and soccer moms alike. If the whole hip-hop thing falls through, West may have a future as a songwriter for Kelly Clarkson types. Until you remember the original didn’t sound like a couple hippies inviting a Moog synth into their drum circle. The song makes the transition to acoustic guitars and bells so smoothly, you might fault it for sounding too much like the original. This cover just surfaced in February, proving again the longevity of this album. Thudding bass and congas provide all the backing necessary. Japanese quartet the Suzan lend their thick accents and garage-pop swagger to the fourth – and least successful – 808s single. The video of Gavankar ricocheting off the walls of an enclosed stone cavern proves an apt metaphor. It all amounts to a slow, building churn that threatens to burst on several occasions, but always retreats just at the moment of explosion. The twisted xylophone, the brushed drums, the cascading vocal lines. It straddles the lines between indie and pop, soul and electro beautifully. Vancans submitted this great electro-rock cover back in November, but at the time the best we could do was include it in a Submissions Roundup. When the style and the song blend so flawlessly though, a classic cover emerges. The biggest name of this set, the Fray sound exactly as you’d expect: incredibly emotional with extra piano. Brace yourself for the hair-metal guitar solo. The first look at Swedish production duo Blänk’s upcoming debut album, “Welcome to Heartbreak” combines the hip-hop swagger of the original with spacey electronics and a much more exciting beat. Things get weirder as the song progresses. It holds true to the synthed-out spirit of the original, taking it in an indie electropop direction.
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Mobius Band’s second free Valentine’s Day EP included covers of the Everly Brothers, Tom Petty, Townes Van Zandt, and…Kanye West. No other Kanye West album would be remotely feasible – where the “New Workout Plan” covers at? – but this one proved a cinch.
Below, then, we present covers of every song off 808s and Heartbreak. The preponderance of “Love Lockdown”s alone could keep a cover blog going for weeks.
The reason is clear – covering a pop song is much easier than covering a hip-hop song. One fact has remained consistent, though, and that is that this album lends itself to covers better than any other Kanye album. More generous types recognize, however belatedly, that West perversely used Auto-Tune to make his music more human, not less. 808s clearly played a role in shaping West’s undisputed masterpiece My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, so even the holdouts reluctantly credit the album as a stepping stone to greatness. Three years later, though, people look back on the album more fondly. The fact that he masked his vocal deficiencies with Auto-Tune at the very height of the anti-Auto-Tune fervor made 808s a particularly easy target.
Following three critically-acclaimed rap albums, a heart-on-sleeve pop album by a guy who clearly could barely carry a tune proved dead on arrival. Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak was universally derided upon its 2008 release.
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