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Audio: Everybody covers Tugboat - but which are your favourites?

Watuppa, from water front, Brooklyn, Manhattan.

So, last week alt-pop superstar Beck covered Galaxie 500's Tugboat live in Boston (Damon & Naomi were in the audience and captured a little of it on video). In choosing to cover Tugboat, Beck joined an ever growing band of artists who have decided to cover that song - it really is the go to track when it comes to covering Galaxie 500.

A couple of years ago I put together a post collecting the main ones - A Fleet of Tugboats - and this is just a revisit of that.

I've popped a silly little poll at the end where you can choose which version you like best - it doesn't mean anything and you can vote up for up to six if you can't decide - but I thought it might be fun. Feel free to justify your vote(s) in the comments if you so wish! I intend to!

I haven't included Beck's version in the poll because I decided a one-off live performance (without, as yet, a decent recording of it) didn't count!

So, we have ...

Blue Haired Girl

BMX Bandits (featuring Angel Corpus Christi)

British Sea Power

Citay

The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy

Joanna Gruesome (Song by Toad session version)

Mercury Rev (radio session)

Portastatic

Standby Connection

Submarine

The Submarines (from iTunes EP)

The Transmissionary Six (radio session)

Venice is Sinking

X-Lion Tamer

The original and best (play on YouTube)