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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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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?!!?
Also, keep in mind that if you should spontaneously self-actualize while playing a cover then you could – and probably should – nominate it for Top 10 (i.e. “Impeccable”) consideration.
Votes can be cast up to seven days from the day and time of the original post.
Disclaimer: Votes cast from Florida may or may not be counted.
Today’s Offering: The Rolling Stones – “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Cover Song Competition: The Heptones vs. Junior Wells
Broccoli Fields Forever …
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This song always makes me feel so sad for Mick and the boys. And you would have thought they would have drawn a lot of attention from women. It just goes to show that you never really know …
The Original
The Rolling Stones:
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The Cover Songs Competition
Reggae vs. the Blues
The Heptones vs. Junior Wells
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The Heptones:
Junior Wells:
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?!!?
Also, keep in mind that if you should spontaneously self-actualize while playing a cover then you could – and probably should – nominate it for Top 10 (i.e. “Impeccable”) consideration.
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Votes can be cast up to seven days from the day and time of the original post.
Disclaimer: Votes cast from Florida may or may not be counted.
I am an unabashed fan of this movie and song. I still get misty-eyed at the end. Sidney Poitier is fantastic, as is the rest of the cast, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a better movie theme song. Truly phenomenal and enduring …
The Original
Lulu:
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The Cover Songs Competition
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This is probably not a fair fight with Lulu doing partial vocals on one of the covers but as I have to constantly remind my ten-year-old … life is not always fair.
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Lulu & Soul Asylum vs. Melky Sedeck
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Lulu & Soul Asylum:
Melky Sedeck:
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?!!?
Also, keep in mind that if you should spontaneously self-actualize while playing a cover then you could – and probably should – nominate it for Top 10 (i.e. “Impeccable”) consideration.
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Votes can be cast up to seven days from the day and time of the original post.
Disclaimer: Votes cast from Florida may or may not be counted.
“Free markets will not prevail without unfettered competition among cover songs.” – Milton Friedbyrd
Ol’ 55 is one of Waits’ early masterpieces. Typical of his early work the delivery, imagery and rhythm of Ol’ 55 conjure up a scene as real as any you’ve actually experienced. This period of Waits’ work is akin to reading classic Bukowski, peering into the underbelly of society and, for that period of time, feeling as if you’re right alongside the protagonist, eager to continue observing, without actually having to experience the highs and lows of a unique and bizarre, yet somehow endearing, subculture that resides somewhere on the other side of town …
The Original
Tom Waits:
Ask yourself this: How many musicians can work the words “lickety-splitly” into a flawless number?
Wait’s original, stripped down version, which I think I like best.
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The more polished version that opened Tom’s debut album (i.e. Closing Time):
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The Most Popular
The Eagles:
The Eagles’ uninspiring, vanilla rendition of Ol’ 55 was sadly the song’s most popular version. In Wait’s words he was “not that particularly crazy about [the Eagles’] rendition of it … I thought their version was a little antiseptic.” Waits was being kind …
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The Cover Songs Competition
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Dave Alvin vs. Sarah McLachlan
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Dave Alvin:
Sarah McLachlan:
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?!!?
Also, keep in mind that if you should spontaneously self-actualize while playing a cover then you could – and probably should – nominate it for Top 10 (i.e. “Impeccable”) consideration.
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Votes can be cast up to seven days from the day and time of the original post.
Disclaimer: Votes cast from Florida may or may not be counted.
The Textones released Vacation in 1980. Their guitarist, Kathy Valentine, later joined The Go-Go’s who covered the song in 1982. Vaction was one of The Go-Go’s highest charting singles, reaching No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. But undoubtedly the song’s most prestigious accolade is the distinction of being released as the first known cassette single or “cassingle” as trademarked by I.R.S Records.
The Original
The Textones:
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The Most Popular
The Go-Go’s:
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The Cover Songs Competition
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Johnny Aloha vs. MU330
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Johnny Aloha:
MU330:
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?!!?
Also, keep in mind that if you should spontaneously self-actualize while playing a cover then you could – and probably should – nominate it for Top 10 (i.e. “Impeccable”) consideration.
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Votes can be cast up to seven days from the day and time of the original post.
Disclaimer: Votes cast from Florida may or may not be counted.
Broccoli For Miles And Miles And Miles And Miles And Miles … Oh Yeah!
7-Day results of the competition between Ladysmith Black Mambazo with Des’ree and Me First & The Gimme Gimmes covering “Ain’t No Sunshine” by Bill Withers ended in a tie.
However, THERE ARE NO TIES ON COVER ME IMPRESSED!
Hence, a 3-Day runoff to settle the issue. If the runoff should also end in a tie then I’ll be forced to contract a maiming of all musicians concerned (i.e. Bill Withers, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Des’ree and Me First & The Gimme Gimmes) and at least one individual totally unrelated to the proceedings (probably Billy Joel), which may seem a bit harsh and arbitrary but, hell, something will have to be done …
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The Original
“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.
Bill Withers:
Beautiful, beautiful song and if you don’t think so then ya better check your hearing …
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The Cover Songs Runoff
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo with Des’ree vs. Me First & The Gimme Gimmes
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo with Des’ree:
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes:
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?!!?
Also, keep in mind that if you should spontaneously self-actualize while playing a cover then you could – and probably should – nominate it for Top 10 (i.e. “Impeccable”) consideration.
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Votes can be cast up to seven days from the day and time of the original post.
Disclaimer: Votes cast from Florida may or may not be counted.
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?!!?
Also, keep in mind that if you should spontaneously self-actualize while playing a cover then you could – and probably should – nominate it for Top 10 (i.e. “Impeccable”) consideration.
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Votes can be cast up to seven days from the day and time of the original post.
Disclaimer: Votes cast from Florida may or may not be counted.
“Free markets will not prevail without unfettered competition among cover songs.” – Milton Friedbyrd
One of my favorite songs by The Kinks and featuring one of my favorite covers.
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The Original
The Kinks:
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The Cover Songs Competition
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Fountains of Wayne vs. Dar Williams
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Fountains of Wayne:
Simply terrific!
Dar Williams:
Another excellent version! This song seems to bring the best out of a musician.
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?!!?
Also, keep in mind that if you should spontaneously self-actualize while playing a cover then you could – and probably should – nominate it for Top 10 (i.e. “Impeccable”) consideration.
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Votes can be cast up to seven days from the day and time of the original post.
Disclaimer: Votes cast from Florida may or may not be counted.
Yesterday’s blog participant, DY’er Mak’er by Eek-a-Mouse, is now up and running via Dubbenmeister Blog Raido. And I even acceded to correct the spelling of “Led Zeppelin”.
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?!!?
Also, keep in mind that if you should spontaneously self-actualize while playing a cover then you could – and probably should – nominate it for Top 10 (i.e. “Impeccable”) consideration.
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Votes can be cast up to seven days from the day and time of the original post.
Disclaimer: Votes cast from Florida may or may not be counted.
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