The Onion's A.V. Club's "A.V. Undercover" Music Project

The well-known satirical publication, The Onion, has put together a less satirical project via their A. V. Club subsection, called A. V. Undercover.

The project is a list of 25 songs that the Onion's A. V. Club thought would make fun and interesting covers. The game is the first band was given the full list of 25 songs and the opportunity to choose any song they wanted to try their hand at, musically. After a song is chosen, it is crossed off the list until the 25th band is left with whatever is left.

The project began on March 16th, 2010 and a new song is being broadcast on the A. V. Club's website every Tuesday for 25 weeks. It is all being done in a single 11 foot diameter round room in the Onion offices in Chicago.

This is the original list of 25 songs (and who snagged them if they have already been covered):

Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World (covered by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists)
Hall and Oates - One on One (covered by the Fruit Bats)
Archers of Loaf - Web in Front (covered by Alkaline Trio)
Starship - We Built This City (covered by Cursive)
Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City (covered by Justin Townes Earle)
Beach Boys - Kokomo (covered by Retribution Gospel Choir)
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence (covered by Maritime)
M. I. A. - Paper Planes (covered by the Clientele)
Elliott Smith - Say Yes (covered by Ben Folds)
The Kinks - Strangers (covered by Wye Oak)
Pavement - Cut Your Hair (covered by Motion City Soundtrack)
Rolling Stones- 19th Nervous Breakdown (covered by the Wedding Present)
Guided by Voices - Game of Pricks (covered by Owen Pallett)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (covered by The Antlers)
Nirvana - Sliver (covered by Rise Against)
The Lemonheads - Confetti (covered by Frightened Rabbit)
Journey - Faithfully (covered by Clem Snide)
The Smiths - A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours (covered by Coheed and Cambria)

Still up for grabs:
The Replacements - I Will Dare
Superchunk - Detroit has a Skyline
Billy Squire - Everybody Wants You
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy
The Cure - In Between Days
The Wedding Present - My Favorite Dress
REM - Driver 8

Be sure to tune in every Tuesday throughout the summer to hear who else will be joining in on this project.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/introduction-to-av-undercover,38989/