15 Best A.V. Undercover Performances
A.V. Undercover was a fantastic musical series that ran in The A.V. Club from 2010 to 2017. Musical acts would come in and have to choose from a predetermined list of possible songs to cover. Sometimes they would make amazing versions of these beloved titles (see below). Other times, they felt like personal insults. But every entry was always interesting in some manner or another.
Unfortunately, A.V. Club was taken over by new corporate overlords that purged much of the staff and instituted other less-than-great policies (though some fine people remain at the outlet itself). One of these decisions was to take down the A.V. Undercover videos, most likely to avoid having to pay any sort of fees to either group of artists. Luckily, they have been resurrected on YouTube by a user named Alvin Undercover who is keeping them up as well they can (so let’s all be cool and not narc about this, okay?).
In the total list of about 310 episodes of A.V. Undercover, there were holiday specials, outside performances, summer series, and many more permutations while covering a whole range of previously made music that ranged from the ‘60s to the 2010s. Out of those, I selected the 15 I think are best. Which covers that you loved didn’t make the list? Which ones below shouldn’t be on it? Make your list and share it with us on Twitter!