Friday, April 14, 2006

Gnarls Barkley Acoustic Cover - Wait, Hunh??



[MP3] Ray LaMontagne - Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover)

Take out the funk, take out Cee-Lo's soulful voice, get rid of Danger Mouse's FUCKING BAD ASS production and you get this - a wonderfully stripped down cover. Dudes 90% of the reason this song rules is the lyrics. Ray LaMontagne attacks this song with nothing but his razor-like voice and an acoustic guitar. I have never even heard of this guy before but Im diggin in a big way. Find out more about Ray on myspace.

Stereogum has it up on the site as well. Download the goodness above.

***EDITED:

The Kooks also did an awesome Live cover of this song.

[MP3] The Kooks - Crazy (Live Gnarls Barkley Cover 3/30/06)

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Comments on "Gnarls Barkley Acoustic Cover - Wait, Hunh??"

 

Anonymous akaRaff said ... (April 14, 2006 1:25 PM) : 

This is great! I haven't really figured out the excitment around the whole Gnarles Barkley thing. This makes me think that I should take a second, third, and fourth look at it. Thanks for sharing.

cheers,
raff

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (April 14, 2006 1:44 PM) : 

Are you fucking serious you never heard of Ray Lamontagne hes only one of the best songwriters today come on now

 

Anonymous akaRaff said ... (April 14, 2006 2:02 PM) : 

Strong words for someone named anonymous.

 

Anonymous heatherpeggs said ... (April 14, 2006 2:15 PM) : 

ray lamontagne. so amazing. his song 'trouble' is one of my favorite songs of all time.

 

Anonymous greg said ... (April 14, 2006 4:28 PM) : 

thanks for this. ray is awesome, this brings back memories of the truckers covering Hey Ya. sadly, while the gnarls barkley stuff is cool, i aint that excited about it.

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (April 14, 2006 11:42 PM) : 

In case you're interested, thighswideshut.org has the complete crazy video.

 

Blogger JAX said ... (April 16, 2006 10:06 AM) : 

I have been living on an island with matthew fox for the past 3 years gimme a break

 

Anonymous carter said ... (April 17, 2006 8:24 PM) : 

LaMontagne is pretty awesome. I listen to his Trouble CD all the time. I also like "Crazy" by GB, but that's the best song they have...the rest are rather blah (even their cover of the Femmes' "Gone Daddy Gone"). But it's a good song, and I was glad to hear this version. Thank you.

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (April 23, 2006 3:52 PM) : 

Is it more or do the Kooks get a LOT of the lyrics wrong?! Ray's version is amazing though, gives the song a whole new edge.

 

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Blogger nslst8 said ... (August 25, 2006 7:02 PM) : 

This version is great! I heard it on the radio but didn't know who performed it. I'm definitely going to look into more of LaMontange's work.

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (October 24, 2006 6:07 AM) : 

The kooks made a "personalised" cover if i could say so, but i think it's better than GB's, don't you?

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (October 24, 2006 6:09 AM) : 

The kooks made a "personalised" cover if i could say so, but i still think it's better than GB's.

 

Blogger bluelmolover said ... (October 29, 2006 10:12 PM) : 

Oh, God, this song made me cry. I need to look this guy up, he's amazing.

 

Anonymous Pegah said ... (July 22, 2007 10:17 AM) : 

Just magical... enchanting...

I could listen to his beautiful voice all day long. Buy his albums. Those are worth it. Believe me! I know.

love,

Pegah

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (August 22, 2007 9:33 PM) : 

If this guy is such a great song writer, why is doing a "cover" of someone else's. The words and melody are the brilliance of the song. While listening to it, I thouhgt of other ways it could have been sung or played, but you don't see me putting a video of my version on the web. The original IS the original. Period.

 

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