Jimmy Eat World covers "You and I" on their new album

[chriscolbert]

I did a search for this and didn't see anything, so I apologize if this has been covered.

 

I was in Best Buy earlier this week and saw that they had their exclusive "deluxe version" of the new Jimmy Eat World CD on sale for $6.99. It appears that this version has four extra tracks and one of them is a cover of "You and I". I honestly didn't even know it until it started playing that track because I tend to still buy CDs at that price and never even looked at the tracklisting.

 

It's a boring standard note-for-note cover, but I just thought it was strange that they covered and recorded such a recent song.

[cryptique]

Ugh, I just listened to this. Bleah.

 

Note-for-note, but it's an acoustic guitar instead of a full band (some more instruments enter in the last thirty seconds or so, but no bass or drums). I have no idea who the female singer is.

 

A mediocre song made worse by someone else.

[Moss]

In case anyone else wants to listen to it, I'm also not impressed. Didn't realize Jimmy Eat World were Wilco fans.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnxo1UWIhuU

[Shakespeare In The Alley]

Not any better or worse than Wilco's version, really.

 

Jimmy Eat World's a solid band. But I haven't check out the new one yet. Cool to see they like Wilco.

[Magnetized]

In case anyone else wants to listen to it, I'm also not impressed. Didn't realize Jimmy Eat World were Wilco fans.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnxo1UWIhuU

 

Jeez, what a fiasco. They messed up the lyrics (I can never tell/you're the deepest well I've ever fallen into) And if they're Wilco fans, ya gotta wonder why they used an old band photo with a previous lineup.

 

I may be in the minority, but I actually like this song for what it is--a simple falling in love song--but NOT this version.

[Shakespeare In The Alley]

And if they're Wilco fans, ya gotta wonder why they used an old band photo with a previous lineup.

Um...the band almost certainly didn't make that low quality picture slideshow video.

[Guest Hollinger.]

the chick is Courtney Marie Andrews

[TCP]

Ha! I use to be a big Jimmy Eat World fan when I was about 14/15. I heard their new single on the radio the other day and thought it was Linkin Park... anyways..

 

I don't understand the point of covering a song like that and not doing anything different with it. Just seems a little lazy, don't it?

 

But hey, sometimes all it takes is a cover like this to introduce younger fans to a bands like Wilco. I recall something similar when I first heard Weezer's Velouria.

[Guest Hollinger.]

The cover came from her being at a show and they wanted her to do a duet with them. They thought it sounded good, so they recorded a version of it.

[Via Harvard]

This is terrible. I used to be a fan a few years back but they lost me after Clarity. I cannot for the life of me understand covering songs that are so recent. This shows Jimmy Eat World have no creativity. Blaaaargh...

[Guest Speed Racer]

This shows Jimmy Eat World have no creativity.

 

Just this?

[mpolak21]

A mediocre song made worse by someone else.

 

 

It certainly is.

 

 

[alison the wilca]

i heard "You and I" in a Kohl's the other day. It made me feel sad.

[Sir Stewart]

What is the point of this cover? "Let's do a cover of that Wiico/Feist song so our version can be on in Lowe's at the same time their version is on in Home Depot."

[Guest Speed Racer]

Oh wow, I listened to it for the first time. It's like they took the decent guitar playing, decent singing, and decent affect, and tried to make it terrible. And it worked!