The Sunny Day "Game of Pricks" isn't bad, but I think it has the same problem as other Pollard covers I've heard - when you reproduce the weird structure exactly, it's too reminiscent of the original. I'd like to hear someone try to turn them into more "normal" songs, though I guess that would probably require repeating verses lyrically which can be a bit awkward (though Destroyer, for one, does that a lot on his own songs and it's ultimately fine).
At some point I randomly downloaded an album of Brazilian bands covering GBV. I don't remember it being very good.
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