![]() And it’s of the utmost importance that we find this out, as soon as possible. Because maybe – maybe – not just this song, but all White Stripes songs could work with a saxophone solo. Almost like, you want to hear a reggae version of every White Stripes song ever produced. You would never have thought anything White Stripes would work in a reggae style, but this totally, totally does. Luckily Bright Eyes pull it off along with Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit by using a Gameboy-style synth to manipulate your nostalgic tendencies. That’s not a quality Jack White seems capable of producing in music, but with these guys, it’s a danger. It must be difficult to cover this primary school-themed song without making it sound horrendously maudlin. Watch the official music video for 'Were Going To Be Friends' by The White StripesListen to The White Stripes. It’s weird for bleeping synths – and even more jarringly, drum machines – to have anything at all to do with the Stripes, but that makes the survival of the track’s essence all the more impressive.īright Eyes & First Aid Kit – ‘We’re Going To Be Friends’ Released only on vinyl as a B-side to single ‘Thunderbird’, this cover clothes the fuzzy original in sharp, slick electro. The Golden Filter – ‘The Hardest Button to Button’ Factor in the echoing vocals and this cover takes on an identity of its own – which, as the huge number of faceless ‘SNA’ cover versions out there show, isn’t easy with this song. Formed in Southwest Detroit in 1997, the acclaimed rock duo released six studio albums with their simple guitar, drums and vocals approach The White Stripes (1999), De Stijl (2000), White Blood Cells (2001), Elephant (2003) which includes global anthem Seven Nation Army, Get Behind Me Satan (2005), and Icky Thump (2007). Theirs is a bold, hefty version that rattles the eardrums with spiky bass and an added police siren. The White Stripes are Jack White and Meg White. On The Flaming Lips’ own curated album they chose to take on ‘Seven Nation Army’. ![]() Late Night Tales often produces interesting covers – Django Django’s cover of The Monkees’ ‘Porpoise Song’, or Midlake’s version of Black Sabbath’s ‘Am I Going Insane’, to name but a few. The result spins what was a menacing siren song into something almost upbeat, but that’s no real surprise – this was recorded for a Christmas album called ‘Tinsel and Lights’. Top 10 White Stripes Songs 10 The Same Boy Youve Always Know More videos More videos on YouTube 9 The Denial Twist More videos More videos on. Nice one, Of Montreal!Īccompanied by a lilting guitar part, the Everything But The Girl singer pitches this one far lower than Meg White, and swaps ominous bass for pretty liberal use of the drumkit. But all of a sudden you’re listening to actual garage-rock, on perhaps one of the most faithful White Stripes covers you’ve ever heard. You’d expect these loveable psychedelic weirdos to utterly deconstruct the original track: chirpy synths, dramatic arrangements, vocal acrobatics, the lot. ![]()
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