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Originally Posted by Christopher

NPR's All Songs Considered is streaming Best Coasts cover of "Rhiannon"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/20...?sc=tw&cc=twmp

"Best Coast covers Fleetwood Mac's 1975 smash "Rhiannon" on a forthcoming tribute album — a task which clearly requires quite a bit of reverence, to the point where singer Bethany Cosentino even channels Stevie Nicks' warbling rasp. And, while the song's familiar guitar line is replaced with a dramatically simplified piano melody, the result captures the melancholic yearning of "Rhiannon" — its mystical side, its understanding of unattainable love — without losing the beach-bound giddiness of Best Coast's simple, shiny sound. (Which should come as no surprise: Few albums this year mix shininess with melancholy quite like Best Coast's The Only Place.)

Best Coast's "Rhiannon" cover will appear on Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac, out August 14. The New Pornographers' version of "Think About Me" is already kicking around, while other album participants include Antony Hegarty, MGMT, Marianne Faithfull, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, St. Vincent, Lykke Li, The Kills and many others."

I like this a lot but I'm surprised on the few covers of Rhiannon I've heard over the years that nobody seems to venture into the uncharted territory of the live versions or the piano demo. It would be really cool to hear a punk band do it in the style of the Buckingham Nicks live performances. Or maybe a goth band start out with the piano demo and move into the wild ferocity of the Rosebud live version. There's so many great versions to be inspired by but when the let it fade at "dreams unwind" it always makes me wish there was more.