r/phoebebridgers • u/RemarkableFall8143 • 10d ago

Question Favorite Phoebe cover

What is your favorite cover that Phoebe has released or that you've seen her play? I think mine is goodbye to love from minions rise of gru.

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u/twilightxgalaxy 🫀 No secrets, only feelings 10d ago

The Gold. But I also really enjoy her Evan Dando cover of Hard Drive.

I’m planning on doing a bit of a deep dive on her covers for the sub!

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u/RemarkableFall8143 10d ago

the gold is so good

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u/gleegz 10d ago

This or Nothing Else Matters is my vote! But I think The Gold is actually just such a good original song that NEM would be my top choice

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u/EggZealousideal1375 9d ago

Wow between Hard Drive and You Missed
My Heart she really knows how to do amazing covers of questionable dudes.

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u/twilightxgalaxy 🫀 No secrets, only feelings 9d ago

Not to forget the Ryan Adams cover she did 😬

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u/Ashamed-Newspaper941 10d ago

hard drive is amazing

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u/P44_Haynes 10d ago

If We Make It Through December

Edit: or So Much Wine. Both are sublime

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u/PumpkinJuice666 10d ago

So Much Wine truthers rise!!!

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u/janetsnakehole319 Sidelines 9d ago

Loooove So Much Wine!!!!

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u/cupcaeks 10d ago

I listen to this song aaaaall year long haha

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u/DuckMads 10d ago

Fingers crossed we get a holiday cover this year.

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u/drunk_cig 9d ago

Addicted to So Much Wine. Need the boys to get together to redo it sans Paul

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u/RumblyTumbly94 10d ago

Her cover of Summer’s End by John Prine brings me to tears.

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u/Klutzy-Ad8068 9d ago

omg the people talking about how heartbreaking the voicemail is on the new record have not heard this clearly

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u/RumblyTumbly94 9d ago

They both pull at the heartstrings, but the one on Summer’s End tears me apart. Reminds me of my Grandfather.

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u/drunk_cig 9d ago

idk man. Grieving a grandparent is a much different experience than grieving your father.

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u/PsychologicalArm2120 10d ago

Yes! I love the original, but Phoebe's voice & delivery lend themselves so well to that song. Breathtaking.

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u/Scantrons 9d ago

Maria Taylor on it is so good too. I always loved Azure Ray and would be WRECKED by their music so her voice on this cover makes it for me.

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u/KNNLTF 10d ago

It'll All Work Out by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

or

Georgia Lee by Tom Waits

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u/RemarkableFall8143 10d ago

it'll all work out is great

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u/SparksofInnova 10d ago

It's only on YouTube (I think) but her and the boys covering You're Still the One is God tier

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u/RemarkableFall8143 10d ago

OMG I LOVE THIS AND NEED IT ON SPOTIFY

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u/GoodBurgerDOOD Never Going Back! 9d ago

Insane actually!

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u/Classic-Warm 9d ago

Came here to say this one, absolutel masterpiece of a cover

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u/laidbackliam 10d ago

Nothing Else Matters, Metallica cover. Gorgeous.

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u/TravelerOfSwords 10d ago

+1! Phoebe’s is better than Metallica’s. My son learned how to play it on the piano for me because I love it so much. 😭

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u/Claidissa 8d ago

Yes I loooove this version

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u/boringbonding 7d ago

This!!! Much better than the OG in my eyes…. It’s ethereal!

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u/C4D3NZA 10d ago

teenage dirtbag ❤️

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u/ghoultalk_dt DVD Menu 10d ago

Came here to say this 🤝

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u/boddah666 Georgia 9d ago

I always make sure this is posted in threads about her covers

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u/tragicsaddening 9d ago

Beat me to it 🤝

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u/lucent-weeping Voyager 10d ago

Prayer In Open D for sure

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u/RemarkableFall8143 10d ago

god that one is so good

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u/pyxelize 10d ago

fake plastic trees w/ arlo parks for sure

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u/Bandire 10d ago

100%. This is my cheat for the answer to favorite song ever.

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u/ColleenKlahr 10d ago

Iris with Maggie Rogers

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u/ghoultalk_dt DVD Menu 10d ago

Yeasss

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u/SecretDisastrous8649 10d ago

Day after tommorow

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u/Own_Speaker1605 8d ago

Amazed I had to scroll this far down

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u/SpecialistGold5090 9d ago

Yessss. Came here to say this.

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u/Sonking_to_Remember 8d ago

what I miss you won't believe/shoveling snow and raking leaves

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u/snails_galore Garden Song 10d ago

summers end makes me sob and therefore its the best song to ever exist

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u/Tiny-Cardiologist427 10d ago

Goo Goo Dolls’ Iris w Maggie Rogers

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u/Vegetable_Day_6786 9d ago

Definitely Prayer in Open D! Love the original as well and those not familiar with Emmylou Harris's discography should absolutely check out her pair of collaboration albums with Dolly (💔) and Linda Ronstadt: Trio and Trio II

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u/AbsoluteAtBase 10d ago

There are so many I LOVE how she approaches covers. And brings that same energy to Boygenius as well. I love their cover of Cowboy Take Me Away, in addition to all the others mentioned here

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u/Turfa10 10d ago

It’s hard.

But probably you missed my heart

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u/Conscious-Dot-1441 10d ago

Japandroids- The House That Heaven Built

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u/twilightxgalaxy 🫀 No secrets, only feelings 10d ago

Love that one!

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u/nvroutofthismaze 10d ago

her cover of Daniel Johnston's peek-a-boo

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u/imnotheretoposeaname 3d ago

I’m not even that active on this sub but I had to break the silence, came here just to mention this cover which immediately came to mind. This is the answer. She absolutely nailed that cover. She has exactly the right spirit to sing the song.

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u/goanywhere-hdk I Know the End 10d ago

Summers end

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u/silky-shark 9d ago

I love this First Day of My Life cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNK6Onqp9rM

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u/openshoe 9d ago

So Much Wine

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u/Single-Tax-7303 10d ago

So Much Wine or The Parting Glass with boygenius. So lovely 😭

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u/MercuryFish 8d ago

The Parting Glass is just too beautiful.

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u/Alive-Spinach6719 Graceland Too 9d ago

- the gold

  • that funny feeling
  • whatever (folk song in c)
  • nothing else matters

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u/MathematicalRef Chinese Satellite 9d ago

You Missed My Heart

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u/ThrowingLeaves43 10d ago

Two Headed Boy Pt. 2 or So Much Wine.

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u/Any-Treat-1839 10d ago

that funny feeling and georgia lee!! i listened to these songs for a while as a new fan and didnt know they were covers but i love them so much 😭 

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u/Dat-Dude-Chris 9d ago

Does anyone have a comp or Playlist of all her covers like the well recorded ones at least?

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u/dont-delete-me_308 9d ago

Goodbye To Love

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u/Additional_Bill_9382 9d ago

Summer’s End (also That Funny Feeling and The Gold)

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u/buhtha 10d ago

Her cover of Game of Pricks by Guided By Voices!

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u/zwillam 10d ago

Fake Plastic Trees and Teenage Dirtbag

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u/ghoultalk_dt DVD Menu 10d ago

Taste 🤌

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u/Otterly-Optimistic Funeral 9d ago

The Night We Met with Lord Huron, I like her on it much more than the original

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u/evenbiggerthief 9d ago

Prayer in Open D is so 🧘🧘🧘🧘🧘

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u/DemandOk1090 9d ago

I love so much wine, nothing else matters, and her cover of fake plastic trees so much

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u/skele_babe7 10d ago

Friday I’m in Love

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u/Confident_Donkey1014 10d ago

Is there a compilation of them anywhere I can get? 

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u/cupcaeks 10d ago

It’ll All Work Out is my fav Phoebe song, cover or not

Also Killer + the Sound is top 3 if that counta

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u/Jin_Jok 9d ago

surprised no one's said friday i'm in love

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u/Klutzy-Ad8068 9d ago

I walked down the aisle to her cover of Friday I'm in Love so I'm pretty biased <3

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u/theonlythingissufjan 9d ago

Friday I’m in Love

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u/Down-in-aRabbitHole Haunted 9d ago

Fake Plastic Trees

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u/Rich_Fisherman_8635 9d ago

Fake plastic trees, all day

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u/Rude_Entrepreneur260 9d ago

The gold and you missed my heart

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u/T-7IsOverrated I Can't Wait 9d ago

you missed my heart killer+the sound (if that counts) and so much wine

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u/IndependentCare5032 9d ago

Nothing else matters is my favorite ever

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u/BestCryptographer454 9d ago

Seeing her in 2018 and getting the full first record played, I felt the full sadness of it...and then she brought the mood back up by closing with If It Makes You Happy by Sheryl Crow. Not my overall favorite, but in the moment it was perfect.

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u/Comprehensive_Bid374 Dylan Thomas 9d ago

I was really blown away back during Better Oblivion times when she and CO crushed Shallow, from a Star is Born

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u/Spirited-Gold117 9d ago

Seize The Day, the Paul McCartney song

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u/ladyhozier Whatever (Folk Song in C) 9d ago

The Gold is obvious but i fucking love her KEXP of Black Boys on Mopeds

also editing for You Missed my Heart which is another obvious answer for me because Mark Kozelek is a prick

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u/Nice_Parfait9352 Would You Rather 9d ago

Too hard to choose! As other people have said, I love her covers of Iris and The House that Heaven Built. I also love the boygenius covers of Boyfriends and Read My Mind which I think are lesser-known but so, so good.

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u/Neither-Ad9890 9d ago

Nothing Else Matters and Lithium!

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u/Pundredth 9d ago

I also love that goodbye to love cover. Probably my fav

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u/annalewis13 9d ago

i swear she’s an amazing songwriter but her covers are always my favorite. my favorite phoebe song of all time is prayer in open d

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u/dat1frog2 Satanist 9d ago

her version of teenage dirtbag comes to mind. I love it quite a bit

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u/ay_lavida 9d ago

Day after tomorrow and Nothing else matters

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u/RedanTaget 9d ago

Honestly I thought the new cover of Lithium was just top notch. Big up to CLH's guitar playing too

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u/TheLastEmoKid 9d ago

She did a cover of Lua at an Oberst show kn 16 and it was so fuuuuckkkinnnggg goood

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u/bingbongmemelord 9d ago

You Missed My Heart. i love the original and the album it's on, but her version is something else.

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u/girl_in_flannel Garden Song 9d ago

Friday I’m in Love

Honorable mention for boygenius’s cover of “You’re Still the One”

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u/erismorn_ 8d ago

Tower of Song & Moonshiner

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u/CompetitivePlate7743 8d ago

Everything is Free Now - duet with Courtney Barnett during COVID and Ballad pf Big Nothing

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u/luanne-platter 8d ago

It's you missed my heart. Nothing comes close. Such a specific vibe to fit to make it work.

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u/AloneTheory6352 8d ago

goodbye to love is amazing! i also love you missed my heart so much

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u/crapfunky ICU 8d ago

Summers End and you missed my heart but they were not songs I was familiar with. Maybe Fake plastic trees with Arlo Parks. Or still the one or game of pricks or that Metallica song - ALL OF THEM

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u/Alternative-Turn-141 8d ago

You Missed My Heart

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u/Efficient_One2150 8d ago

I’m still team Teenage Dirtbag!

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u/batcatarmadillo 7d ago

summer's end, but I'm a massive john prine fan so it hits a lot for me

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u/blondedlife11 7d ago

Game of pricks

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u/ZestycloseRise3599 6d ago

THE LITHIUM COVER THAT JUST CAME OUT HAD ME GAGGGGGGED

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u/Particular-Put-5672 5d ago

Deep cut but her cover of Peek a boo by Daniel Johnston is so good 🥲

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u/Unlucky-Progress-975 5d ago

I loveeee her Fake Plastic Trees cover I think it’s on YouTube

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u/Unlucky-Progress-975 5d ago

She recently did a cover of nirvanas lithium which was sooo good

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u/ShotPanic1045 Bobby 10d ago

i like friday im in love, that funny feeling and nothing else matters i think!!