Jeff Atwood
jwz@codinghorror A cover that improves on the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW7WS-O2hjA
(Other good covers by Au Revoir Simone, and Daddy Issues, but not on the tubes in acceptable quality.)
Sean@jwz @codinghorror +1 for the Daddy Issues cover, in fact the entire album that’s on is great
Clifton RoystonReally interesting, thanks for linking that one.
I am fond of the more conventional cover by the Ataris ("I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac") and the more recent one by American Football was pretty good too.
sandy
The Boys of Summer
@sandyarmstrong @jwz @codinghorror
You're right, I didn't know this one but it's a damn good version. I'll have to give a listen to more of her music.
OK, I *swear* I listened to an American Football cover of 'Boys of Summer' on Youtube a few months ago, but now I can't find it.
Their copy of Mazzie Star's 'Fade Into You' is fairly nice, though it loses the dreaminess of the original.
(Realizing now that 'American Football' was not a good choice of band name for search engine visibility, though I doubt anybody will ever top The The for that.)
@CliftonR @jwz lol "the the" yes, love 'em on two levels https://blog.codinghorror.com/stop-me-if-you-think-youve-seen-this-word-before/
Stop Me If You Think You've Seen This Word Before
If you've ever searched for anything, you've probably run into stop words [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words]. Stop words are words so common they are typically ignored for search purposes. That is, if you type in a stop word as one of your search terms, the search engine
Oh yeah, I remember reading that post on your blog many eons ago.
They're also a well-known test case and boundary case in library science as I recall, because of the standard rules about stripping articles in indexing.
The The The* album cover you picked is one of the The The* albums I bought both on LP and CD, as well as of course ripping it to MP3 long since. 'This Is the Day' has many years of complicated associations for me.
* Yes of course that's on purpose
Steve
@scm @CliftonR @codinghorror Back when Witch House was still a thing, lots of those bands had names that were made of zalgo-esque unicrud.
Nice. I see Mastodon's URL identification & extraction broke on that one.
@CliftonR @jwz @codinghorror it might have been Ivory’s fault, but that’s part of the fun!
Tbf they have to deal with the situation where someone says something like “look at hxxps://example.com! It’s great!”
aliceif 
@CliftonR @jwz @codinghorror I occasionally listen to Nothing (bad for talking about irl) and・・・・・・・・・ (they break search engines)
@CliftonR @jwz @codinghorror she was only ever famous for her David Duchovny song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wijp4-3giNw) but I think she's a great songwriter, lots of fun stuff on her albums
Bree Sharp's David Duchovny in HD
Jeff ♨️ Darcy@jwz @codinghorror Damn, that really slaps. Adding it to the Noctura or 5FDP covers of _Gone Away_ or the Disturbed cover of _Sound of Silence_.
@jwz oh fantastic, I love covers that completely transform the song, e.g. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/rewinding-jimi-hendrixs-national-anthem
wkrickI really like the cover by First Aid Kit...
https://youtu.be/7lMoqJeksL4
The Boys of Summer
Fabio Bracht