Leave it to American pop music's resident mad scientist Ben Folds to produce a professional-quality cover jam of the Postal Service's "Such Great Heights" out of not just a piano, but also percussive forks, glass, a box covered in a towel, tin foil, and a cell phone ringtone.
I love this cover, filmed in 2006 (it's a Ben Folds concert staple) and watched approximately 230 times that year, give or take, from the comfort of my dorm room in Evanston. Originally released in 2003 by the aforementioned and also very talented Postal Service, the song has been used widely in movie and TV soundtracks, and it even makes an appearance on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songs of the Decade list.
Needless to say, that's an honor that the "Macarena" does not share.
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