Friday's Foreign Covers

Don't be thinking you have to record a crappy acoustic rendition in muffled tones to earn the coveted Friday's Foreign Covers badge, as this video proves you can also start your own Gregorian Chant cover band in Germany and give it an amazingly profound name like Gregorian. With the amazing news of the recent Roger Waters and David Gilmour gig, it seemed only fitting to cover some Pink Floyd this week, granted I was never expecting so many creepy robes to be involved.

Enjoy the extremely smooth droning of Gregorian's take on "Wish You Were Here". Then repent.

Prepare to have yourself adequately rocked. This week we've got a special gift coming straight to you from Spain, where amazing dancer Marin made this incredibly fancy video for his own take on the tune "Love Really Hurts Without You" made famous by the indelible Billy Ocean. I feel I should warn you, Marin spared no expense in the production of this video, or maybe he did, I'm not sure. Happy Friday.

Every once in a while there's a time when you are on youtube and you stumble on a treasure trove of wonderment.  Such is the beauty of the internet. Today I was lucky enough to have one of those life affirming experiences, and it even fits in nicely as a foreign cover taboot.

Why didn't anybody tell me about the slush fund of awesome that was youtubing Menudo? Today was my first time but I can assure you it will not be my last. I've spent the last hour watching old clips over and over and I couldn't recommend the experience more, but for now you can take this version of Footloose as a sampler. The dance moves are so incredibly great your head might explode. Explode with awesome.

It takes very little for my brain to jump to Christopher Cross whenever possible, so when I started writing the post about Helen Mirren being cast in the remake I started bumping some of C-Dub's greatest works.  Then it was time for Friday's Foreign Covers and only one song seemed appropriate.

At first I was wondering if the smooth sounds of Christopher Cross were even popular enough to be covered by legions of youtubers outside of the good ole USA, but what I found shouldn't have been that unexpected, everyone loves Christopher Cross.  The fact that most covers I stumbled upon were more of the classical fingerstyle guitar variety caught me by surprise, but I will say that it was a most awesome surprise.

The first video you see below is one of the aforementioned fingerstyle versions, done by Spanish youtuber chamacojesus.  It is ridiculously pretty and the whole thing is just fantastic.  Due to the fact that there are some of you out there that just can't handle instrumentals I have also included Brainge's version of the classic theme song, coming to you all the way from Portugal.