The Dreamworks film Over The Hedge is adapted from a comic strip I never read and features a score by a guy I’ve never heard of. (Fans of Rupert Gregson-Williams, let the hate mail begin.) But I’m a sucker for a good cover, and Ben Folds, who lends a few of his own tunes to the Over the Hedge soundtrack, has been churning out some choice ones over the past few years. (Google his takes on the Cure’s “Just Like A Dream” and the Darkness’s “Take Your Hands Off My Woman”!). That said, I consider most Clash tunes off limits — and that goes quadruple when we’re talking abut using them in cute animated films. Alas, Ben picks a winner — the Strummer-penned, Jones-sung “Lost In the Supermarket” — for Over the Hedge. Not only does he do the song justice, but just for kicks he teams up with Hedge voice William Shatner (no stranger to Folds, who backed Shatner on his recent comeback disc) for a reworking of his own “Rockin’ the Suburbs.” Next stop for the Only Band That Matters: Kidz Bop?
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