How do people feel about covers of The Mountain Goats tracks by other bands? I ask because there were a few Mountain Goats songs that I heard as covers before I heard the original, so it was a happy little surprise when I discovered the original artist.

Some that I can track down online.

* Atom & His package - Alpha Desperation Song: [www.youtube.com]
* Atom & His Package - Going to Georgia: [www.youtube.com]
* Atom & His Package - Seed Song: [www.youtube.com]
* Ben Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie/The Postal Service) - Palmcorder Yajna: [www.youtube.com]
* Heathers - Heretic Pride: [www.youtube.com] (They have a cover of "This Year" too but it's rather ear-splitting.)
* The Hold Steady - Southwood Plantation Road: [www.strangerdance.com]
* Jason Webley - This Year: [www.youtube.com] (He kind of butchers the lyrics...)

My favorites are probably the Atom & His Package cover of Going to Georgia and Ben Gibbard's Palmcorder Yajna. I like how sincere Ben Gibbard sounds and how frantic the synth is on Atom's versions.

I'm sure there are lots more that I don't know about and some that aren't online (Beulah has done "Alpha Incipiens", for example.)

There's fellow forum member Sledding With Tigers' cover of Going To Georgia
Which I can very much dig.

And there's of course the "Tallahasse Turns 10" project which I'm excited for. ESPECIALLY Andrew Jackson Jihad covering Alpha Rats Nest, and I'm praying that one of the available song spots goes to The Weakerthans or at least John K Samson.

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Steven Page (of the Barenaked Ladies) covering Lions Teeth [www.youtube.com] (he also covers this with the Art of Time Ensemble on A Singer Must Die) which you can listen to some of it here [www.stevenpageshop.com] and This Year [www.youtube.com]

Andrew Jackson Jihad covering Going to Georgia [andrewjacksonjihad.com]

apparently Manchester Orchestra has covered Broom People [www.youtube.com] and sometimes does a bit of No Children

also we cannot forget the forums's's cover album projects - No Safety, which I can't find a link for, Hi, We're Not the Mountain Goats [nigelewan.com], and [www.uglythingsinthedarkness.com] If We Never Get There at All

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No Safety.

Don't we already have a thread or two for this topic?

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apparently Manchester Orchestra has covered Broom People [www.youtube.com] and sometimes does a bit of No Children

also Hast Thou Considered [www.youtube.com]

Hefner did Orange Ball of Hate
And Darren Hayman has also done Jam Eater Blues with Watkins, Trout and Lee.
Herman Düne have done Neon Orange Glimmer Song. There's a link to a live clip, but I've not heard it in full.
Eddie Argos has said Art Brut did a cover of The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton for Xfm that was so bad they didn't play it...

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Ace of Base covered The Sign. wait . . .

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What about parodies?

i think the mountain goats should parody a weird al song.

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