Category Archives: Best Covers

Best Covers: Indochine ‘You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)’

Indochine is a French New Wave/rock band, formed in 1981. The band was very successful in France in the 1980s, as well as other parts of continental Europe and Latin America, with songs like “L’Aventurier” and “Canary Bay”. They also covered Dead or Alive ‘You Spin Me Round (Like a Record).’

Best Covers: Christine and the Queens “Stayin’ Alive”

Christine and the Queens have dropped their rendition of the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive.”

The rendition — which arrives days after Barry Gibb was awarded Kennedy Center Honors — hues closely to the Saturday Night Fever classic, with the “Chris Version” putting their own reverbed flourishes on the track. The cover was accompanied by a visual directed by Chris and filmed in Venice:

Best Covers: Aretha Franklin ‘Let It Be’

Aretha Franklin’s genius took so many forms — as a singer, a songwriter, an album-crafter, a live performer. But the Queen was also one of history’s most audacious Beatle fans. Nobody ever sang the Beatles like Aretha.

When Paul McCartney wrote “Let It Be,” he sent an acetate demo to Aretha in hopes she’d record it, knowing full well she’d outsing him on it