adrian is rad

6/14/2005

covers competition #1

Dave Franusich, Andy Chadwick and myself, the members of the seminal Upper St. Clair indie folk band Where’s Luke? have started a new competition. It’s called the covers competition. It is a weekly competition and this week is the first week.

The idea of the project is this:

  • Andy, Dave or I are the lead for the week. The lead picks the song to be covered. He posts the original. The song will be announced each Tuesday and linked here.
  • We* each do cover versions of this song by the following Monday and post them online as mp3s.
  • You, the readership, listens and votes (either by email or on another webpage with little buttons). Voting categories will probably be Best and Most Original.
  • Lead rotates to the next person and he picks a new song.

*I’m thinking about opening up submissions to any one that wants to do a version…The lead would still be one of us three, though.

This week’s song has been picked.
Covers Contest #1
Song: “Neverending Math Equation”
Original Artist: Modest Mouse.

the original

Dave already has his version done (that’s actually what sort of sparked the idea). Usually the versions will be posted simultaneously.

9 Responses to “covers competition #1”

  1. dave Says:

    bring it on.

  2. penguin Says:

    URL for original?

  3. Adrian Says:

    URL for the original is in the post now.

  4. andy (not andyl) Says:

    That mp3 came from vinyl!

  5. Adrian Says:

    Sorry Andy. Dave posted it…My computer is in the shop, so I don’t have access to such resources to post an mp3.

    It’s for evaluatory purposes only, though, so it should be good enough, no?

  6. Dolphio Says:

    Gah, you post the original after I payed $0.99 for my iTunes DRM’d copy, which although I chose the album version is actually the live version

  7. andy (not andyl) Says:

    I wasn’t really insinuating that it was inferior for coming from vinyl. The levels are pretty bad, but otherwise, it’s a fine recording.

  8. gillian Says:

    so, um, where are your and andrew’s final versions?

  9. adrian is rad Says:

    Covers Contest #1 entries, #2 song
    Last week, I announced the Covers Contest.

    A brief recap of the idea of the contest:

    Andy, Dave or I are the lead for the week. The lead picks the song to be covered. He posts the original. The song will be announced each Tuesday and linked here…

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