Ben Folds covers The Postal Service 'Such Great Heights' for Like A Version

Recorded in 2006

Like A Version is a segment on Australian radio station triple j. Every week a musician or band performs one of their own songs and cover a song they love.

#LikeAVersion

[robpallot]

17 years later - still good as gold, Ben Folds...

[phenel]

I have been looking for this since I first watched the show in 2008. I wish you'd added the part leading up to it. how he gets the file box and puts a tea towel on it, puts aluminium foil on the piano strings then uses a cup with some water and taps with a pencil. I loved this so much. it's been 15 years and it's finally available for me to show people I know.

[RivaldoDeniz]

How have I only just discovered this despite being a fan of the original. Incredible

[rnehrenz]

I love that you are adding a bunch of older ones!

[призрак]

This is so good Ben. This song is making a huge comeback and is being used in films again this year. Best version I’ve heard in the 20 years of this song existing.

[JonatanGGomes]

This guy has made me very happy at some point in 2006 and now again. :)

[tim.noonan]

Don’t be upset that more people don’t know about this. Be grateful you know of such a hidden gem at all.

[sbz]

What a beautifully written song. Great cover too

[jijinae]

My parents always put on triple j and listened to them especially in the late 2000s, and I've just started discovering the songs i grew up on by finding them on YouTube. A lot of nostalgia with them 💜

[marksilvasilva]

I'll be voting this as #1 in Hottest 100 Like a Version :)

[glumplum]

plz for the love of god put this on spotify

[rorysackville]

GOAT - a proper LAV ... the towels, the ACTUAL postal box, the macarena on the phone ... classic!

[JennyBenFoldsFan]

I first heard this song about a leather or 12 years ago… It made me absolutely ridiculously happy then and it still makes me absolutely ridiculously happy now… All the way into 2024… I like the original of this song I like the iron and wine Version of this song and this version is gotta be probably like the best one of all…

[subispaceship]

How am I just seeing this now?❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉

[artpinsof]

Best outro to a song I’ve ever heard 😂

[krkon]

i remember listening to this when i was like.. 4 or 5 lol, on a dvd i found in my parents bookshelf, on my shitty little dvd player tv, and i was entranced by it, i watched it over and over, and now, looking back... i had some damn good music taste as a little kid

[erikoverland]

Just when I thought Ben Folds had one of the best covers with ‘Bitches Ain’t S***, I dig this up. Thanks for always keeping listeners on their toes like in ‘Macarena’ Ben!

[eric_wiley]

My sister visited nyc with her college friends when I was 11. I had a huge crush on her friend and she put me on to a bunch of 2000s artists from Maroon 5 to Postal Service. Now, I live in the LES just blocks away from the very spots they’d go and watch all their friends and SO bands play.

[ricky]

Big "2006 older brother that goes to university in new hampshire playlist" type energy

[RusteeUte]

Yeah, brilliant.
This is a real Like a Version highlight, plus the original Postal Service version is already awesome :)