I’ve really been enjoying this set of covers done by Of Montreal (by way of You Ain’t No Picasso, a great music/free-and-legal-MP3 blog I read regularly)… I’m not a big Of Montreal fan lately*, but these covers are pretty cool. Of particular note is the cover of the Shins Know Your Onion, because it’s a great song already, and the cover sticks to the original’s great vocal melody, but changes the instrumentation enough to keep it interesting as a cover.

* (I loved their early album The Gay Parade because it was so absolutely unlike anything I’d listened to, with it’s show-tune catchy melodies and piano, and the amount of chords Kevin Barnes would shove in there and yet have it sound absolutely natural and good. But they’ve evolved and have become quite a sensation in the indie scene, and unfortunately I don’t care.)