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Spectre Folk – You Showed Me (The Turtles)

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

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Photo: Clearly Ambiguous (Flickr)

60s chart toppers The Turtles always offered up the finest sugar coated pills of pop. This cover comes courtsey of Pete Nolans alter ego and delivers the dark side with a vocal reminisant of the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

The Field – Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime (The Korgis)

Friday, June 19th, 2009

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Photo: Aine D (Flickr)

Love this!

Little Pictures – Buddy Holly

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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Photo: Little Pictures MySpace

Little Pictures are a pop duo from Wellington, New Zealand who make cute bedroom electro pop with a bit of a hip-hop tinge. Check out this really ace cover of Weezer’s biggest hit.

Queen Of Japan – I Was Made For Loving You

Sunday, June 7th, 2009
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Photo: Queen Of Japan MySpace

This is taken from the very brilliant ‘Headrush’ album by Queen Of Japan, who sadly split up in 2006 after making a couple of sweet covers albums in a kitschy electro pop style. Here they are covering Kiss. Enjoy!