Today, we’ll switch things up a little and offer two competing covers of the same Radiohead song, which will be “Karma Police,” taken from the 1997 album OK Computer.
First, the Brown Derbies are an a capella group from Brown University. Their version of the song is taken the album Jericho (1999). Are you familiar with the whole College A Capella scene? Some of it is good, some of it is funny and some of it is overblown.
Then, we turn to Howie Day, another singer-songwriter, as in yesterday’s post. But Day has an interesting technique. He plays solo on acoustic guitar, but he’ll use foot pedals to create loop effects. He’ll play a rhythm, and then while that loop continues, he’ll play over it or switch to another instrument and accompany himself. Checking some of his old set lists, it looks like he was playing this song in concert quite a bit in 2001-02, so this recording is probably from that period.
Brown Derbies – Karma Police
Howie Day – Karma Police (live)
Tags: Radiohead covers, Brown Derbies, Howie Day, MP3s
3 Responses
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supergurg Says:
thanks for the Howie cover
cheers,
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katjen Says:
Re: Howie’s looping…
He picked up that technique from the amazing Joseph Arthur.
Nice cover tho…
Thanks!
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