mp3: “Ballad of Big Nothing (Elliot Smith Cover)” – Cymbals Eat Guitars

The Long Islanders who put out, arguably, one of the best albums with the worst album art of 2009 have just put out a spot-on rendition (with a few tweaks of course) of Elliot Smith’s “Ballad of Big Nothing”.  At the risk of getting bottles hurled at me on here, I’ll say that this cover more than does the song justice.  Bands like Cymbals Eat Guitars and Phoenix have been making some pretty brazen cover attempts lately that have really impressed me.

Is Elliot Smith “uncoverable”?  I can hear the entire Pacific Northwest in an uprising as we speak . . . even though this is an insanely great homage.

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