I think that for it to work, out-of-genre covers of classics need to be more than the musical equivalent of stunt casting. That's why I have a hard time with bands like The Bad Plus. They play "Smells Like Teen Spirit" but I'd rather hear them play "On Green Dolphin Street."
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:12 PM, David Powers <cybo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, I checked Can You Feel It, Strings didn't totally work for me, > but I was indeed feeling the Fingers cover. > > I actually have messed around with similar covers here and there, I > think that we can expect to hear even more overlap between acoustic > and electronic genres in the future. There are some potentially > interesting things that have not yet been tried, in my opinion... > >
