A friend suggested this one. Starting with a piano part, this quickly developed into a full-blown cover. The original Elbow track can be found on the record "Cast of Thousands." (2003)

Not a Job (Elbow cover)

Recorded & sung live on a clickety-clackety 1935 Wurlitzer upright with some reverb and a tad of retro 60s echo added. Happy birthday, Kernel!

Liar's Tale (GBV cover)

Another fairly power pop cover guitar version of a 1982 Depeche Mode track. 

A Photograph Of You (Depeche Mode cover)

What a great melody. I recorded it for my favorite drummer- my buddy Joel- because GBV is his favorite band and now they're one of mine, too. Also, I wanted a chance to play it with my guitar.

The Best Of Jill Hives (Guided By Voices cover)

Low-fi, lazy-day-after-Xmas cover of Arcade Fire's "Wasted Hours," recorded with an upright piano, using an iPad.

Wasted Hours (Arcade Fire cover)

I didn’t want to try to match the melancholy of the original, so I went for upbeat on the piano instead. This one was for a friend.

Walking After You (Foo Fighters cover)

I had just enjoyed spinning the record for The Who By Numbers (1975) and decided that this Pete Townshend song is a standout track. An absolute gem, and so British. I love it. This year I gave myself a decent ukulele as a sort of Christmas present, so I spent some time learning the chords. Being away from home, I had nothing to use for recording purposes except my iPad, so this one turned out pretty lo-fi. I used a ukulele and a melodica and played around with Garageband's string section tools.

Blue, Red and Grey (The Who cover)

I recorded this one in 2011 and never planned to share it. But this one is for the Zombies, who are, this very evening, being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  A straightforward cover, I made up an extra guitar part... but not much else is changed, as the original version is perfect.

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Care of Cell 44 (The Zombies cover)

As of yesterday, Weezer's 3rd album is old enough to move out of the house. Here's one of their trademark distorted guitar pop tracks, re-imagined as a piano-chamber-pop-ballad.

Smile (Weezer cover)

My take on a Beach Boys Favorite- from the brilliant "Surf's Up" record. (1971)

Don't Go Near the Water (Beach Boys cover)

A demo for an original song recorded with an upright piano and an iPad. This one sounds kind of like it could play on a phonograph.


Your Dad Said (demo)

R.I.P. Adam Schlesinger
Written by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger.

Hackensack (Fountains of Wayne cover)

My version of the 1982 Depeche Mode song.

Now This Is Fun (Depeche Mode cover)

The original version of this song was on my first (independently) released recording with my dear friend Matthew, released exactly 20 years tonight: June 17, 2000.
It can be found here:
https://thepantones.bandcamp.com/track/what-to-do

What to Do (Matthew Carlson/Pantones cover)

A cover of another song from Depeche Mode's second record, "A Broken Frame" (1982) re-imagined as a power pop song.

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