If you’re on Spotify, take a listen to my playlist for May 2021. This month’s theme consists of some of my favorite cover songs. (Best listened to on shuffle.)

Tracks:

  • Alien Ant Farm “Smooth Criminal” [Michael Jackson]
  • Annie Lennox “I Put a Spell on You” [Screamin’ Jay Hawkins]
  • The Ataris “The Boys of Summer” [Don Henley]
  • the bird and the bee “Private Eyes” [Hall & Oates]
  • Cake “I Will Survive” [Gloria Gaynor]
  • Chris Cornell “Billie Jean” [Michael Jackson]
  • Deftones “No Ordinary Love” [Sade]
  • Far “Pony” [Ginuwine]
  • Fugees “Killing Me Softly with His Song” [Roberta Flack]
  • Further Seems Forever “Bye, Bye, Bye” [*NSYNC]
  • The Futureheads “Hounds of Love” [Kate Bush]
  • Gary Jules (Feat. Michael Andrews) “Mad World” [Tears for Fears]
  • The Get Up Kids “Close to Me” [The Cure]
  • Goldfinger “99 Red Balloons” [Nena]
  • Green Day “Tired of Waiting for You” [The Kinks]
  • Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah” [Leonard Cohen]
  • Jimi Hendrix “All Along the Watchtower” [Bob Dylan]
  • Joe Cocker “With a Little Help From My Friends” [The Beatles]
  • Johnny Cash “Hurt” [Nine Inch Nails]
  • Korn “Word Up!” [Cameo]
  • The Lemonheads “Mrs. Robinson” [Simon & Garfunkel]
  • Lenny Kravitz “American Woman” [The Guess Who]
  • Letters To Cleo “Dangerous Type” [The Cars]
  • Lorde “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” [Tears for Fears]
  • Manic Street Preachers “Umbrella” [Rihanna]
  • Muse “Feeling Good” [Nina Simone]
  • Nine Inch Nails “Physical (You’re So)” [Adam and the Ants]
  • Nirvana “The Man Who Sold the World” [David Bowie]
  • No Doubt “It’s My Life” [Talk Talk]
  • Orgy “Blue Monday” [New Order]
  • Pearl Jam “Last Kiss” [Wayne Cochran]
  • Phantom Planet “Somebody’s Baby” [Jackson Browne]
  • Placebo “20th Century Boy” [T. Rex]
  • The Presidents of the United States of America “Kick Out the Jams” [MC5]
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers “Higher Ground” [Stevie Wonder]
  • Save Ferris “Come On Eileen” [Dexy’s Midnight Runners]
  • Self “What a Fool Believes” [The Doobie Brothers]
  • Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U” [Prince]
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees “The Passenger” [Iggy Pop]
  • Skindred “Electric Avenue” [Eddy Grant]
  • The Smashing Pumpkins “Never Let Me Down Again” [Depeche Mode]
  • Spin Doctors “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” [Creedence Clearwater Revival]
  • Stone Temple Pilots “Dancing Days” [Led Zeppelin]
  • Thrice “Send Me an Angel” [Real Life]
  • Travis “Baby One More Time” [Britney Spears]
  • Van Halen “You Really Got Me” [The Kinks]
  • The White Stripes “Jolene” [Dolly Parton]