Macy Gray – Covered (2012)
Covered isn’t just a collection of familiar songs given the Macy Gray treatment — it’s a frequently funny journey through what makes Macy Gray Macy Gray, with celebrity guests visiting to offer advice (like JB Smoove advising she wield a sword on-stage, or Nicole Scherzinger saying she should sing more Alanis Morissette songs). Fortunately, all of it’s enlivened by Gray’s ability to (mostly) deliver strong performances that don’t sound like they’ve been labored over. With her keyboard-led live band in tow, Gray mashes Eurythmics’ “Here Comes the Rain Again” with Radiohead’s “Creep,” Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown” with Nina Simone’s “Buck.”
Her choice and range of material to cover are astonishing, always yielding songs that are perfect for her (and her audience), like “Smoke Two…
…Joints,” done earlier by Sublime as well as the Toyes.
1. Here Comes the Rain Again (Eurythmics 1983) [03:44]
2. Creep (Radiohead 1992) [04:18]
3. You Want Them Nervous (Skit) (feat. J.B. Smoove)[01:12]
4. Smoke Two Joints (The Toyes 1983-Sublime 1992) [02:48]
5. La la la (Teaching the Kids) (feat. Layann Al Saud, Avery Albert, Happy Hinds) [00:25]
6. Teenagers (My Chemical Romance 2006) [02:56]
7. The Power of Love (feat. Hugh Salk) [00:41]
8. Nothing Else Matters (Metallica 1991) [05:42]
9. Sail (Awolnation 2010) [04:27]
10. I Try Is Cool and All But (Skit) (feat. Nicole Scherzinger) [01:29]
11. Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2003) [02:51]
12. Lovelockdown-Buck (Kanye West 2008-Nina Simone 1967) [03:59]
13. Mel Rap (feat. Mel Hinds) [00:33]
14. Bubbly (feat. Idris Elba) (Colbie Caillet 2007) [03:11]
15. Wake Up (Arcade Fire 2004) [03:52]
16. Really (Skit) (feat. MC Lyte) [02:21]
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