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David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/bradfordkrieger Bradford Krieger

    Still haven’t figured out how these mediocre webcam covers always seem to make it up here…

    • oasisob1

      I like the voice. Probably other people do, also. That could be it. It’s certainly more of a wonderful thing than another thread about the most recent mass murder, or drones, or the WBC or the RIAA…

      • http://twitter.com/trempls tré

         Being informed of the atrocities going on around this rock is much more wonderful than the alternative.

  • Cowicide

    Beautiful voice and guitar work.  Thanks for posting this, David.

  • James Holmes

    Holy reverb!

  • http://roblord.org/ roblord

    Gorgeous. Thanks David. 

  • mappo

    Sweet Jeebus what a voice!  Thank you for this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=898600166 Kumar Plocher

    There’s a second guitarist off-camera, right? It doesn’t look like she could be doing both the strumming and picking melody.

    • allenmcbride

       Also, the visual of the strumming doesn’t seem in sync with the sound, yet the singing does. Confusing.

    • ocker3

       Audio looping?

  • C D

    One of my favorite MBV songs….she does it well. Kudos

  • legsmalone

    Nope. You know what was awesome? MBV playing MBV songs.

    • http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers

       They are pretty much on the top of the list of bands that should never be covered.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

         Actually, I clicked over to the comments to say how well I thought this cover worked. The fact that you can strip away all the complex layering and distortion in the original and still have a wonderful song is a credit to MBV as songwriters.

        But crap this makes me feel old. I just realized this song is twenty years old.

    • noah django

       inorite?  where’s all the vacuum cleaners?

  • Edward Arthur

    Most excellent.  What would be cool is for a song / rendition like this to appear on The Voice or The X-Factor – which would wake my out of my slumber since my wife/kids are always watching these shows.  

  • http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers

    Breathy, with glottal fry. 

  • niktemadur

    Well for starters, she’s got impeccable taste.
    And yes, she pulls it off.