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Cover Me Impressed
With a focus on the 60's-90's music scene, CMI is a Paradiso for Lovers Cover Songs! Each post focuses on a particular song and provides its original and most popular recordings as well as covers versions. Patrons of CMI vote on the most deserving cover version, which will then live to compete again, battling other cover songs in a future post.
Bands, musicians, troubadours, and their ilk, submit your cover songs for future CMI competitions.
CMI welcomes the opportunity to introduce new artists.
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“Ain’t No Sunshine” is ranked 285th on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song won the Grammy for Best R&B Song in 1972.
Beautiful, beautiful song and if you don’t think so, well, you’re wrong …
The Original
Bill Withers:
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes
Mark Eitzel vs. Ladysmith Black Mambazo with Des’ree vs. Sting & B.B. King
Mark Eitzel:
Ladysmith Black Mambazo with Des’ree:
Sting & B.B. King:
Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. It is your solemn responsibility to decide which cover song prevails. In other words … Which Side Are You On?!!?
Disclaimer: Votes cast from Florida may or may not be counted.
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes: C.I.A. vs. Susan Cadogan vs. Nick Cave
Everybody’s Dressin’ Funny … Cover Me Impressed!
Read it in the Sunday Papers …
A Spanish civil servant didn’t show up at work for six years, and his absence was only noticed when he was nominated for a dedicated service award. Joaquin Garcia, 69, was tasked with overseeing the construction of a water plant in Cadiz in 2004, but decided the job was beneath him and stayed home to read philosophy. He kept collecting his $41,500 salary until city officials tried to give him an award for 20 years of loyal service – prompting co-workers to say they hadn’t seen him in years. Garcia was fined $30,300 last week for his six-year absence, but he’s appealing, saying he’s the victim of a media “lynching.”
The Original
Elvis Presley:
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes
C.I.A. vs. Susan Cadogan vs. Nick Cave
C.I.A.:
Susan Cadogan:
Nick Cave:
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Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. It is your solemn responsibility to decide which cover song prevails. In other words … Which Side Are You On?!!?
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes: Balzac vs. Die Toten Hosen vs. The Offspring
Everybody’s Dressin’ Funny … Cover Me Impressed!
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
Emma Goldman
The Original
The Damned:
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes
Balzac vs. Die Toten Hosen vs. The Offspring
Balzac:
Die Toten Hosen:
The Offspring:
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Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. It is your solemn responsibility to decide which cover song prevails. In other words … Which Side Are You On?!!?
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes: Karmic Juggernaut vs. Portland School of Rock vs. Close to the Yes
Everybody’s Dressin’ Funny … Cover Me Impressed!
Read it in the Sunday Papers …
A college art teacher in Colombia won the right to legally change her name to the entire alphabet. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWEYZ said she changed her name “so people wouldn’t know it’s me.”
(Please bill your time to Douglas Zaner for time spent on today’s post.)
The Original
Yes:
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes
Karmic Juggernaut vs. Portland School of Rock vs. Close to the Yes
Karmic Juggernaut:
Portland School of Rock:
Close to the Yes:
Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. It is your solemn responsibility to decide which cover song prevails. In other words … Which Side Are You On?!!?
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes: Indigo Girls vs. The Staple Singers vs. The Wonder Stuff
Everybody’s Dressin’ Funny … Cover Me Impressed!
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“How come when Kanye acts like an idiot he gets a gold record, but when I act like an idiot, I get a police record?”
Lindsay Lohan
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The Original
Dino Valenti:
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The Most Popular
The Youngbloods:
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes
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Indigo Girls vs. The Staple Singers vs. The Wonder Stuff
Indigo Girls:
The Staple Singers:
The Wonder Stuff:
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Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. It is your solemn responsibility to decide which cover song prevails. In other words … Which Side Are You On?!!?
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes: Beastie Boys & Cibo Matto vs. Dread Zeppelin vs. Al Green
Everybody’s Dressin’ Funny … Cover Me Impressed!
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
Bob Dylan
The Original
The Doors:
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes
Beastie Boys & Cibo Matto vs. Dread Zeppelin vs. Al Green
Beastie Boys & Cibo Matto:
Dread Zeppelin:
Al Green:
Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. It is your solemn responsibility to decide which cover song prevails. In other words … Which Side Are You On?!!?
Tune du Jour: “Cant’s You Hear Me Knocking” – The Rolling Stones
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes: Bernard Fowler & Chuck D vs. Great Caesar’s Ghost vs. Bobby Keys
I Shouted Out, “Who Ate The Broccoli?”, When After All, It Was You And Me…
Read it in the Sunday Papers …
A Philadelphia woman was stunned when a 5-pound catfish fell from the sky and smacked her square in the face. Lisa Lobree was walking through a city park when she heard a rustling in the trees above her and was struck by the 16-inch fish, which witnesses said was dropped by a passing hawk. Lobree suffered a small cut to the face and a lingering fishy odor. “I smelled so bad afterward,” she said. “I smelled disgusting.” Lobree added that she’s a keen angler, but in decades of fishing, “it was the first catfish that my face caught.”
The Original
The Rolling Stones:
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes
Bernard Fowler & Chuck D vs. Great Caesar’s Ghost vs. Bobby Keys
Bernard Fowler & Chuck D:
Great Caesar’s Ghost:
Bobby Keys:
Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. It is your solemn responsibility to decide which cover song prevails. In other words … Which Side Are You On?!!?
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes: The Chieftains & Sinead O’Connor vs. Screaming Orphans vs. The Wakes
Everybody’s Dressin’ Funny … Cover Me Impressed!
There are a few old traditional English and Irish ballads that go by the name of Foggy Dew or The Foggy Dew. This particular one, undoubtedly the greatest of them (so sayeth R.J. Dubbengoth III in his landmark tome, “Very Excellent Great Things As Sayeth R.J. Dubbengoth III“) was written sometime around 1919 by the Irish priest Charles O’Neill. In April 1916, in what would become known as the Easter Rising, James Connolly, greatest man ever (again see Dubbengoth III’s “Very Excellent Great Things“), and Patrick Pearse led an insurrection in Dublin against British rule of Ireland. The Irish revolutionaries seized the General Post Office and other prominent governmental buildings in Dublin. However, in about a week’s time Britain’s well-trained and heavily-armed occupying force squashed the insurrection. At the time of the rising, which coincided with World War I, many (and probably most) Irish citizens did not support an armed revolt against British troops. But Irish sentiment changed drastically in subsequent weeks as British Command summarily executed all real and imagined leaders of the insurrection. Sixteen leaders of the insurrection, including Patrick Pearse and an already badly injured James Connolly, who unable to stand was placed in a chair before a firing line, were executed without trial. In the eyes of the Irish people these men soon became martyrs in Ireland’s struggle for home rule.
O’Neill’s The Foggy Dew memorialized the Easter Rising and encouraged Irishmen to fight for Ireland’s freedom, rather than for the British, as so many young Irishmen were doing in World War I.
The Earliest Studio Recording
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (1956):
As far as I can tell this was the first studio recording of the song.
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The Most Popular
The Dubliners (1966):
There are many excellent versions of this venerable old song but I’d guess the most well-known would be that of The Dubliners (first cousins with and frequent inebriation-enthusiast mates of Grandfather Dubbengoth I).
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The Cover Songs Competition
The Chieftains & Sinead O’Connor vs. Screaming Orphans vs. The Wakes
The Chieftains & Sinead O’Connor:
Screaming Orphans:
The Wakes:
Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. Only one cover tune will live to play another day and it is your solemn responsibility to decide which one prevails. So tell me … Which Side Are You On?!!?
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes: Chicha Libre vs. Jimmy Cliff with Tim Armstrong vs. Dado Villa Lobos
Everybody’s Dressin’ Funny … Cover Me Impressed!
“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably.”
Julian Barnes
The Original
The Clash:
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes
Chicha Libre vs. Jimmy Cliff with Tim Armstrong vs. Dado Villa Lobos
Chicha Libre:
Jimmy Cliff with Tim Armstrong:
Dado Villa Lobos:
Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. It is your solemn responsibility to decide which cover song prevails. In other words … Which Side Are You On?!!?
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes: Mike Masse with Jeff Hall & Phil Wormdahl vs. Nouvelle Vague vs. The Persuasions
Everybody’s Dressin’ Funny … Cover Me Impressed!
Read it in the Sunday Papers …
Elvira Montes is a champion. Last week, the 81-year-old grandmother competed with her family in Austin’s FloTrack “Beer Mile” World Championships, in which runners have to chug a 12-ounce beer before each of the four quarter-mile laps. Montes, who’s been running since she was 60, finished in 20:24 – 50 seconds faster than her 47-year-old daughter. Her son-in-law couldn’t even make it to the finish line. The octogenarian says she doesn’t even like beer, preferring scotch instead. “I tried to drink the first on really fast, but I couldn’t,” she said. “The second one went down really smooth; the third, even better. The fourth was all right.”
The Original
U2:
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes
Mike Masse with Jeff Hall & Phil Wormdahl vs. Nouvelle Vague vs. The Persuasions
Mike Masse with Jeff Hall & Phil Wormdahl:
Nouvelle Vague:
The Persuasions:
Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. It is your solemn responsibility to decide which cover song prevails. In other words … Which Side Are You On?!!?
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