The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit)

Simply amazing "bootleg" album that I urge you to download right now. This is Salota, but really, I could have used any song from the album. Great mix of African and Western music/sensibility. This is a similar kind of thing to Damon Albarn's Mali Music, but  comes from the African perspective rather than the European.

Funeral Mist

A frenzied sermon put to black metal. I can't stop playing it. Blessed Curse from the album Maranatha.

Pale Young Gentlemen

Another cover. I just can't help myself. I hold the irony in so much that it has to escape somewhere.
This is a great version of M.I.A.s Paper Planes. Can't find any artwork to go with this.

Portishead

Although this album (Third) came out a while back, I didn't give it a second thought - Trip Hop is so boring - It's like listening to your Mum's record collection. Kenny had it on in the studio yesterday and I was pleasantly surprised by this track . I'm a sucker for a song with a skronking trumpet, even if it's just been cut and pasted into the song like a little rap in a pop song. The album is all pretty listenable. Kind of like a light jazzy pop album. Sounds like I'm damning it with faint praise, but I'll probably buy it. 

Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman

From the Ravenous Soundtrack. Boyd's Journey is my favorite. Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman - who'd have thought. There are some nice songs so it's worth hunting down. I'll check out the movie too: a comedy about cannibals.

Free The Robots

We spent a good amount of our trip around New England trying to find a radio station that didn't play lame rock or 80s tunes (we heard a lot of lame 80s rock). As a consequence we mostly listened to NPR. Diary was the exception. We happened upon the station that played it, and then lost it within the space of a few songs. Oh well. 

It reminds me of all those mid 90s albums from DJ Shadow et al. Tres pleasant.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World from the album Ka'Ano'i

Makes me think of Gideon -although he would have just laughed at it.

The Tiger Lillies

Show tune My Funny Valentine from Urine Palace

Jesus Christ Superstar

This song is a cover of the second best song on the Jesus Christ Superstar album. It's covered by Laibach. The original is totally Romantic (with a capital R) and made even more so by this version.

This is the best song:

What a voice!

Nude

Beautiful cover of a Radiohead song by this guy.
It's been posted on just about every blog there is, but just in case you didn't see/hear it I've posted it for you here. I cut out the boring intro bit (which is a nerdy joke) and just left the song.
I think it's better if you listen to the song first before you watch the video, because the way it is made is fascinating, but shouldn't eclipse the fact that it's an amazing interpretation.