Superstar by Sonic Youth
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Best Carpenters cover.
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My next few Jams are going to be some of my favourite cover versions. Starting with Sonic Youth's version of "Superstar", written by Leon Russell, but made famous by The Carpenters.
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One of the few times you'll Sonic Youth dabbling with an acoustic guitar. This was the lead double A side single shared with Redd Kross for the Carpenters tribute album "If I Were a Carpenter".
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..Long ago and oh so far away, I fell in love with you before the second show...
Sonic Youth have always been high on my list of bands I thought I should like, but just never did. Here's a big exception: their cover of the Delaney and Bonnie jam (made most famous by the Carpenters) is equal parts melody and melancholy... just as a tragicbeauty jam should.
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Continuing the "best covers of all time" theme.
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