Check Out: Feist leads all-star cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale”

By Chris Coplan on August 15th, 2011 in Guest Heavy, New Music, News

Photo courtesy of Cité de la Musique’s Flickr

The Velvet Underground’s 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico is a massively important album, a 2006 addition to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry and the No. 5 album on our list the 100 Greatest Albums of All Time. As such, an album of its groundbreaking magnitude deserves only the most elite of collaborators for a tribute concert, which it got during last month’s The Velvet Underground Revisited concert in Paris.

Featuring Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood, Soap&Skin, Air’s Nicolas Godin, and The Hotrats (Radiohead’s Nigel Godrich alongside Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey of Supergrass), the super-supergroup performed the classic album in its entirety. For a taste, check out their rendition of “Femme Fatale” featuring guest vocalist Leslie Feist (courtesy of TwentyFourBit). The track may have been covered by everyone from R.E.M. to Girl in a Coma beforehand, but here’s where the original is respectfully recreated at its most alluring.

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