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05 July 2011

They Might Be Giants cover Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping," backed by a chorus of staff members of The A.V. Club. The cover is pretty rockin' but wow, if a bomb had gone off in that little room, the earth might have suffered a decades-long shortage of ironically-dressed white people.

post by: BoringPostcards at: 06:34 | 12 comments

That looked like so much fun. I like a lot of these covers, actually.

posted by gaspode 05 July | 10:44

oooooo nifty idea. its interesting to see the diffferent takes to the songs

posted by rollick 05 July | 10:46

I like a lot of them, too... some of them I wish I could download as an MP3 and keep. (Like of Montreal covering "Fell In Love With A Girl.")

posted by BoringPostcards 05 July | 10:48

Super fun! Although I don't get "ironically-dressed". That's what Middle-aged media dorks look like in the wild.

posted by The Whelk 05 July | 11:09

Never heard of this project. Cool. The ads for Starbucks have me jonesing for a frappacino. I hate it when advertising hits so perfectly.

posted by toastedbeagle 05 July | 12:38

I enjoyed that.

posted by jessamyn 05 July | 14:47

I loved this.

posted by Stewriffic 05 July | 15:43

So fun!

posted by deborah 05 July | 17:51

The Wye Oak cover of Danzig's Mother is pretty great, too.

posted by BitterOldPunk 05 July | 19:29

Great music for pissing the night away. (How did they ever slip that lyric onto so many radio stations?)

posted by oneswellfoop 05 July | 22:02

Tubthumping was fun. But....

Boxcar? BOXCAR! Fuck! Corporate America, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED to fuck with my gen-x nostalgia like that.

Screw you, Starbucks, you're not punk and I'm telling everyone!

Also, Mountain goats? You guys rock weaker than my 10th grade social studies teacher.

posted by Triode 05 July | 23:04

I found that surprisingly moving. I teared up a little! But is the idea that they're singing inside a giant frappaccino cup or something? That was weird.

posted by serazin 06 July | 10:56

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