Shameless pitch time.
I love Me First And The Gimme Gimmes. Few punk bands can do a cover as well as them. They can take the intent and emotion of the original song and turn it punk. A nice example is “Wild World”. This song was of course written and originally performed by Cat Stevens.
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes is also on a really cool record label, Fat Wreck Chords, that gives away mp3’s of songs. “Wild World” is one of the songs offered, which you can download here.
They’re Billy Joel stuff is priceless too. They can cover his entire greatest hits in under 30 minutes.
Comment by RH — Monday 12 December, 2005 @ 21:55