Five years ago today, Wesley Willis died. Hopefully we won’t be the only music site to note the occasion and pay our respect, but I imagine elsewhere he will be recognized as some sort of schizophrenic-savant musical genius.

We prefer to remember Wesley Willis as one of the most passionate and dedicated music fans ever to walk the earth. It’s that rare class of devotion, and not his mad skillz with Technics sample melodies, that make him one of our heroes here at Antiquiet.

Yesterday Johnny delivered something we had been planning to do for awhile: A covers mixtape. It’s a daunting task, picking 10 tracks or so out of the hundreds of great covers there are out there, and I’m sure there will be many many more to come. But there were some crucial ones that I felt absolutely should not be back-burnered. So here’s a follow-up, eleven of my personal favorites.