zamboni
Footballguy
The Hazard original is interesting and certainly different - kind of punkish.
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The middle-aged dummies are forming a band called "Blanket"! It's a cover band. (2 Viewers)
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rockaction
Footballguy
Listening to that (it's still going) leaves me with the conclusion that Lauper decided to take underground guitar/new wave sounds, slow them down, and emote her eccentricity over them. Turned them into hits!
zamboni
Footballguy
She also must have had a thing for Philly guys, between Hazard and Rob Hyman of the Hooters (with whom she co-wrote "Time After Time").
rockaction
Footballguy
Interesting. I didn't know that.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I mainly know Gordon from a different hit cover he had. We'll see if it shows up.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Yep. The male harmony vocal on that song is Hyman.
rockaction
Footballguy
How did they get all that good songwriting when all around them were synths? That's the million dollar question I want to ask.
zamboni
Footballguy
The Hooters recorded their own live version about a decade after Cyndi did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nGg7APm8C8
Taking a calculated risk that no one actually selected it - my apologies if so.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I mean, Depeche Mode did it...
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
I did not pick that Hooters cover.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
The guy who sings Peg sounds like Tom Jones.
Doug B
Footballguy
Have to double-check, but I believe Link Wray also released his version of "Fire" before The Pointer Sisters. EDIT: Never mind -- Wray played on Gordon's version.
Springsteen released his live version of "Fire" in 1986 on Live 1975-85. Twenty-four years later he finally released his 1978 studio version of "Fire" on The Promise, a collection of 22 unreleased tracks from the Darkness on the Edge of Town sessions.
Doug B
Footballguy
She did many excellent covers. More to come.
zamboni
Footballguy
Some "She Bop" innuendo there.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
While we're waiting I tried to find 5 legit covers of Temporary Secretary but no luck. So enjoy this one.
krista4
Footballguy
Istanbul was on my short, short list. Should have plopped it in the Last Five Out.
krista4
Footballguy
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
It still links to an OMD song.
krista4
Footballguy
One-Point Selections:
Uruk-Hai:
You're No Good – Linda Ronstadt (Dee Dee Warwick)
titusbramble:
Venus - Bananarama (Shocking Blue)
Pip’s Invitation:
All Along the Watchtower - Neil Young with Booker T. and the MGs (Bob Dylan)
Dr. Octopus:
Mozambique – Jimmy Buffett, Emmylou Harris (Robert Zimmerman)
simey:
Friend Of The Devil - Lyle Lovett (Grateful Dead)
Just Win Baby:
In My Life -- Dave Matthews (Beatles)
Galileo:
Apeman - Hayley Jane and the Primates (The Kinks)
Don Quixote:
Pai E Filho (“Father and Son”) - Nara Leão (Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam)
simsarge:
Honky Tonk Blues - Huey Lewis & The News (Hank Williams)
Charlie Steiner:
Gloomy Sunday - Peter Wolf (Billie Holliday)
JMLs secret identity:
Voulez Vous - Culture Club (Abba)
zamboni:
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve (Procol Harum)
John Maddens Lunchbox:
Funky Town - Pseudo Echo (Lipps Inc)
Ilov80s:
Jealous Guy - Roxy Music (John Lennon)
Eephus:
Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You) - Jonathan Butler feat. Stevie Wonder (Stevie Wonder)
The Dreaded Marco:
A House Is Not A Motel - Yo La Tengo (Love)
New Binky the Doormat:
Obsession - Animotion (Holly Knight & Michael Des Barres)
Andy Dufresne:
Daydream In Blue - I Monster (Wallace Collection)
Hawks64:
Baba O'Riley – Pearl Jam (The Who)
rockaction:
Susie Q – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Dale Hawkins)
Scoresman:
Dirty Deeds - Joan Jett (AC/DC)
Raging weasel:
Mama Said Knock you Out - Five Finger Death Punch(LL Cool J)
scorchy:
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy - Revolting Cocks (Rod Stewart)
Mrs. Rannous:
99 Problems - Hugo (Jay-Z)
Mt. Man:
Working On The Coal Mine - DEVO (Lee Dorsey)
Mister CIA:
Whiskey River – Willie Nelson (Johnny Bush)
Val Rannous:
Misty Mountains - Peter Hollens (Richie Armitage)
landrys hat:
Way Down In the Hole - Blind Boys of Alabama (Tom Waits)
shuke:
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm (Michael Jackson)
Doug B:
Don't Leave Me This Way – Communards (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes)
DrIanMalcolm:
Big Ten Inch Record – Aerosmith (Bull Moose Jackson)
Chaos34:
The Sound Of Silence - Disturbed (Simon And Garfunkel)
higgins:
Der Kommissar - After the Fire (Falco)
Oliver Humanzee:
It’s O.K. - Pearl Jam (Dead Moon)
krista4:
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievances – Clem Snide (Daniel Johnston)
Uruk-Hai:
You're No Good – Linda Ronstadt (Dee Dee Warwick)
titusbramble:
Venus - Bananarama (Shocking Blue)
Pip’s Invitation:
All Along the Watchtower - Neil Young with Booker T. and the MGs (Bob Dylan)
Dr. Octopus:
Mozambique – Jimmy Buffett, Emmylou Harris (Robert Zimmerman)
simey:
Friend Of The Devil - Lyle Lovett (Grateful Dead)
Just Win Baby:
In My Life -- Dave Matthews (Beatles)
Galileo:
Apeman - Hayley Jane and the Primates (The Kinks)
Don Quixote:
Pai E Filho (“Father and Son”) - Nara Leão (Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam)
simsarge:
Honky Tonk Blues - Huey Lewis & The News (Hank Williams)
Charlie Steiner:
Gloomy Sunday - Peter Wolf (Billie Holliday)
JMLs secret identity:
Voulez Vous - Culture Club (Abba)
zamboni:
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve (Procol Harum)
John Maddens Lunchbox:
Funky Town - Pseudo Echo (Lipps Inc)
Ilov80s:
Jealous Guy - Roxy Music (John Lennon)
Eephus:
Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You) - Jonathan Butler feat. Stevie Wonder (Stevie Wonder)
The Dreaded Marco:
A House Is Not A Motel - Yo La Tengo (Love)
New Binky the Doormat:
Obsession - Animotion (Holly Knight & Michael Des Barres)
Andy Dufresne:
Daydream In Blue - I Monster (Wallace Collection)
Hawks64:
Baba O'Riley – Pearl Jam (The Who)
rockaction:
Susie Q – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Dale Hawkins)
Scoresman:
Dirty Deeds - Joan Jett (AC/DC)
Raging weasel:
Mama Said Knock you Out - Five Finger Death Punch(LL Cool J)
scorchy:
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy - Revolting Cocks (Rod Stewart)
Mrs. Rannous:
99 Problems - Hugo (Jay-Z)
Mt. Man:
Working On The Coal Mine - DEVO (Lee Dorsey)
Mister CIA:
Whiskey River – Willie Nelson (Johnny Bush)
Val Rannous:
Misty Mountains - Peter Hollens (Richie Armitage)
landrys hat:
Way Down In the Hole - Blind Boys of Alabama (Tom Waits)
shuke:
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm (Michael Jackson)
Doug B:
Don't Leave Me This Way – Communards (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes)
DrIanMalcolm:
Big Ten Inch Record – Aerosmith (Bull Moose Jackson)
Chaos34:
The Sound Of Silence - Disturbed (Simon And Garfunkel)
higgins:
Der Kommissar - After the Fire (Falco)
Oliver Humanzee:
It’s O.K. - Pearl Jam (Dead Moon)
krista4:
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievances – Clem Snide (Daniel Johnston)
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Oliver Humanzee
Footballguy
“It’s Okay” -- Pearl Jam (Dead Moon)
Pearl Jam - *It's OK* (SBD) - 9.11.11 Toronto
My Eddie Vedder story is thus: sometime in the early 00’s when Eddie Vedder was visiting his mom in Evanston, IL, he stayed in downtown Chicago for a week, mostly hanging out in the bar I worked at during the day. The bar had butcher paper over the tables and he would draw on it and give all the servers little sketches. He was quiet and sweet and seemed like he liked being left alone. There was almost nobody in the joint between 11am and 4pm, when the day traders came in to do coke in the bathroom and wreck the vibe. On the day before he was to leave he gave my coworker and I tickets for a Cubs game. They were WGN box seats, and, unbelievably, he was there, next to us. And we all hung out. He didn’t have an entourage or anything. It was just him and two other random dopes who might have been bartenders at the place he hung out at in the evening time. We all played the pass-the-cup gambling game while he said “Hey” to approximately 12,000 fans who just happened to pick him out of the crowd and make their way up for an autograph.
The funny thing is that neither my coworker nor I were fans. She listened to Kelly Clarkson and whatever swamp garbage a 22 year old Florida native with her first big city bartending gig listens to. And I listened to super effing cool punk rock like Oregon garage-lifers Dead Moon. But there’s a no-BS decency about the dude that you just connect with. I’d be stoked to go to a game with him if he were a pizza delivery guy and I had to buy my ticket. His music is totally incidental--just an artifact of his relationship with the other dudes in Pearl Jam. Doesn’t matter all--not to me. He’s a mensch, you can tell.
Dead Moon is the same. Fred and Toody Cole have released a thousand records (most cut on their own lathe--the one upon which the original garage-banger “Louie Louie” was cut) and they all sound like first takes immediately after smoking a pack of cigarettes. None are--sonically speaking--good. They are noisy and poorly-mastered and sound like they were recorded in a tin can. And the voices on them are not “pretty” or even as conventionally appealing as Eddie Vedder’s vibrato yarling. They are shaky and shouty and out of key and so earnest you want to die. Their genius is the connection they make with their audience, a connection they made to thousands, over 30 freaking years, one killer show at a time. I don’t even think they needed instruments to rock, they just kind of exude awesomeness.
It’s so heartening to see Fred and Toody’s most generous duet played by Pearl Jam and their audience.
Here’s Fred Cole’s NYT obit.
www.nytimes.com
Pearl Jam - *It's OK* (SBD) - 9.11.11 Toronto
My Eddie Vedder story is thus: sometime in the early 00’s when Eddie Vedder was visiting his mom in Evanston, IL, he stayed in downtown Chicago for a week, mostly hanging out in the bar I worked at during the day. The bar had butcher paper over the tables and he would draw on it and give all the servers little sketches. He was quiet and sweet and seemed like he liked being left alone. There was almost nobody in the joint between 11am and 4pm, when the day traders came in to do coke in the bathroom and wreck the vibe. On the day before he was to leave he gave my coworker and I tickets for a Cubs game. They were WGN box seats, and, unbelievably, he was there, next to us. And we all hung out. He didn’t have an entourage or anything. It was just him and two other random dopes who might have been bartenders at the place he hung out at in the evening time. We all played the pass-the-cup gambling game while he said “Hey” to approximately 12,000 fans who just happened to pick him out of the crowd and make their way up for an autograph.
The funny thing is that neither my coworker nor I were fans. She listened to Kelly Clarkson and whatever swamp garbage a 22 year old Florida native with her first big city bartending gig listens to. And I listened to super effing cool punk rock like Oregon garage-lifers Dead Moon. But there’s a no-BS decency about the dude that you just connect with. I’d be stoked to go to a game with him if he were a pizza delivery guy and I had to buy my ticket. His music is totally incidental--just an artifact of his relationship with the other dudes in Pearl Jam. Doesn’t matter all--not to me. He’s a mensch, you can tell.
Dead Moon is the same. Fred and Toody Cole have released a thousand records (most cut on their own lathe--the one upon which the original garage-banger “Louie Louie” was cut) and they all sound like first takes immediately after smoking a pack of cigarettes. None are--sonically speaking--good. They are noisy and poorly-mastered and sound like they were recorded in a tin can. And the voices on them are not “pretty” or even as conventionally appealing as Eddie Vedder’s vibrato yarling. They are shaky and shouty and out of key and so earnest you want to die. Their genius is the connection they make with their audience, a connection they made to thousands, over 30 freaking years, one killer show at a time. I don’t even think they needed instruments to rock, they just kind of exude awesomeness.
It’s so heartening to see Fred and Toody’s most generous duet played by Pearl Jam and their audience.
Here’s Fred Cole’s NYT obit.
Fred Cole, Leader of Garage-Rock Band Dead Moon, Dies at 69 (Published 2017)
A singer and guitarist who became a hero of the Northwest music scene of the 1990s, he set a standard for do-it-yourself perseverance.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
More new-to-me Last 5 Out selections that I really enjoyed, through track 91 on the Spotify playlist and the Youtube-only choices listed up to that point:
'Rock and Roll Heaven', Righteous Brothers (Climax)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Sara Bareilles (Elton John)
Light My Fire - Stevie Wonder (The Doors)
Peg - Lexington Lab Band (Steely Dan)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Lexington Lab Band (Tears for Fears)
Refugee - Lexington Lab Band (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) -- LLB's performances are pretty faithful to the originals, so they really come down to what you think of the originals. The distinction is how well they capture the sounds of the originals. Essentially, they seem like the American version of Leonid & Friends.
'Rock and Roll Heaven', Righteous Brothers (Climax)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Sara Bareilles (Elton John)
Light My Fire - Stevie Wonder (The Doors)
Peg - Lexington Lab Band (Steely Dan)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Lexington Lab Band (Tears for Fears)
Refugee - Lexington Lab Band (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) -- LLB's performances are pretty faithful to the originals, so they really come down to what you think of the originals. The distinction is how well they capture the sounds of the originals. Essentially, they seem like the American version of Leonid & Friends.
Galileo
Footballguy
I had never heard of Hayley Jane before when I stumbled upon this as I was putting together my list for the Kinks in MAD 1. To be honest, there is nothing musically special here, and I am not even sure it belongs on my "favorites" list, but Hayley just looks like she is having a lot of fun and that caught my attention. Thus, I wanted to include it. Not sure how many around here have heard of her as she seems to stay around the New England area playing festivals and such. Unfortunately, this song was not on Spotify, but Hayley does have a couple of albums on Spotify that I think are really good if you want to get to know more.
rockaction
Footballguy
The Pearl Jam song was very familiar to me. I realized I must have heard the Pearl Jam version before because Dead Moon's recording sounds like something I've clearly never heard. Dead Moon's recording—if I might commit sacrilege here—reminds me of Motley Crue's Too Fast For Love or Guns N' Roses's "Crash Diet." I don't know whether it's the attitude or just the sound, but it sounds thin like early-mid '80s hair metal. But it's punk, for sure.
All in all, I love the early iteration of Crüe and Guns N' Roses, so why not? That sort of urgency was what those bands were going for in their beginning, too, even if the subject matter of the songs and/or the respective band politics were much different, "politics" being shorthand for "how you run your **** in terms of gestation, performance, recording, and reason for being."
All in all, I love the early iteration of Crüe and Guns N' Roses, so why not? That sort of urgency was what those bands were going for in their beginning, too, even if the subject matter of the songs and/or the respective band politics were much different, "politics" being shorthand for "how you run your **** in terms of gestation, performance, recording, and reason for being."
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Warwick's version is nuts and sounds like nothing else I can think of that came out in 1963. It certainly doesn't sound like anything her more famous sister would have done. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller cut this version and it doesn't sound like anything else they would have done, either. I don't know who playing percussion on this, but they clearly weren't right in the head.
Anyway, there are a bazillion versions that have been done since and Linda's is the most famous. It kind of set the template for many of her later covers and is about as raw as she ever got (from a '70s SoCal perspective). The band is full of ringers and Ronstadt sings the hell out of it. I think it's the best vocal of her classic period.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Pip’s Invitation:
All Along the Watchtower - Neil Young with Booker T. and the MGs (Bob Dylan)
I expected to find plenty of covers of Neil songs on Spotify. I was not expecting to find a cover PERFORMED by Neil on Spotify, but to my pleasant surprise, arguably his best cover performance is there. Here's what I said about it in my Neil countdown:
When @Ilov80s said that while doing his research, he came across one artist whose songs seemed the most "coverable" of anyone, I guessed that that is Bob Dylan, and I suspect I am right. And All Along the Watchtower may be his most coverable song, not just because the famous Hendrix version opened up the possibilities of how to take the acoustic song electric, but because the melody is so sharp and the words are so cryptic that the possibilities of how to approach it without losing the strengths of the song are endless. Hendrix made it a Hendrix song, Neil made it a Neil song, and so on -- I'm sure we'll see many more examples as the countdown goes on.
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT7Hj-ea0VE
All Along the Watchtower - Neil Young with Booker T. and the MGs (Bob Dylan)
I expected to find plenty of covers of Neil songs on Spotify. I was not expecting to find a cover PERFORMED by Neil on Spotify, but to my pleasant surprise, arguably his best cover performance is there. Here's what I said about it in my Neil countdown:
When @Ilov80s said that while doing his research, he came across one artist whose songs seemed the most "coverable" of anyone, I guessed that that is Bob Dylan, and I suspect I am right. And All Along the Watchtower may be his most coverable song, not just because the famous Hendrix version opened up the possibilities of how to take the acoustic song electric, but because the melody is so sharp and the words are so cryptic that the possibilities of how to approach it without losing the strengths of the song are endless. Hendrix made it a Hendrix song, Neil made it a Neil song, and so on -- I'm sure we'll see many more examples as the countdown goes on.
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT7Hj-ea0VE
Hawks64
Footballguy
1 Pointer Spotify Playlist. I tried to find as many of the non Spotify songs as I could.
rockaction
Footballguy
Aw ****, if ol' Hugo is "covering" Jay-Z, then I would have picked Heavy D & The Boyz "covering" the O-Jays. I don't mind, though. Nothin' on me. I just thought we were gonna get a full country rendering of the lyrics to 99 Problems, and we only get the signature couplet/chorus. Don't take me seriously, Mrs. R. I'm just bummed.
Susie Q - Creedence Clearwater Revival (here krista4 shows off what a good speller and lawyer she is by calling them "Credence," whereas this ******* (me) would simply have put "creedence" into the essential and formal document of your choosing. Life's little ironies.
But herewith:
I picked the song because Dale Hawkins's original is so damn cool and guttural for 1957. I can imagine parental heads spinning three-sixty when they heard this song. Anyway, Creedence slows it down just a touch and "I like the way you walk/I like the way you talk" sounds downright ominous. It packs a punch in 2024 also—it just rebels against something differently oppressive than the old-time religion that Dale and the Fogerty brothers had to look out for.
Susie Q - Creedence Clearwater Revival (here krista4 shows off what a good speller and lawyer she is by calling them "Credence," whereas this ******* (me) would simply have put "creedence" into the essential and formal document of your choosing. Life's little ironies.
But herewith:
I picked the song because Dale Hawkins's original is so damn cool and guttural for 1957. I can imagine parental heads spinning three-sixty when they heard this song. Anyway, Creedence slows it down just a touch and "I like the way you walk/I like the way you talk" sounds downright ominous. It packs a punch in 2024 also—it just rebels against something differently oppressive than the old-time religion that Dale and the Fogerty brothers had to look out for.
simey
Footballguy
I like this spirited version by PJ. I've never heard the original, so I listened to Dead Moon's original and it is good as well. Love that raw energy.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
Thanks. 3rd time lucky
Hawks64
Footballguy
The best of this round for me:
@shuke Smooth Criminal
@DrIanMalcolm Big Ten Inch Record
@Chaos34 The Sound of Silence
@shuke Smooth Criminal
@DrIanMalcolm Big Ten Inch Record
@Chaos34 The Sound of Silence
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Oh, crap, I did it, too. I know better.
krista4
Footballguy
krista4
Footballguy
I'm not sure I'm following the post, but I simply put in what you had submitted ("credence") and didn't correct it. Unlike past countdowns, I'm not going to correct everything, mostly because I don't have to this time. If I see something glaring, I probably will, but this one slipped by me.
simey
Footballguy
This cover of "Friend Of The Devil" by Lyle Lovett isn't on Spotify, but I love it, so I placed it at #31. It would have been in my top 10 had I been able to share it on the playlist. Anyway, I like this song by the Grateful Dead, but I don't love it, however, when Lyle does it, I love it. His version is slowed down and sounds so good to my ears. He recorded it for a 1991 Grateful Dead tribute album called Deadicated.
I'm gonna be late listening to the playlist, because I have to study for an exam. I hopefully will take the exam tomorrow or the next day. If I listen to music while studying my focus will drift to just the music, but I will listen to it as soon as I can.
krista4
Footballguy
Chaos told me he specifically put this one at the end of his list so that he would own it.
rockaction
Footballguy
Don't worry about it. I thought you just typed the song and artist in and spelled it correctly but not according to the band's taste. I was laughing at myself, though I guess I shouldn't be. I've been spelling "credence" right all these years after all, it seems.
Funny thing is, when I saw it in print this morning, I thought it was wrong. So I guess whatever I turned in was scattershot and incorrect. My apologies. It really wasn't on you, anyway. I was making fun of me.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I hadn't heard Daydream In Blue before watching Severance. But it's used to great effect there.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
31. Pai E Filho (“Father and Son”) - Nara Leão (Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam)
Well, if you guessed that my question about whether translated versions of songs would count as covers might mean some Portuguese versions of English language songs, you were right. While I included a number of Brazilian artists in my MAD 31 Worldwide list, I left out Nara Leão. Thought I’d make it up to her by giving her the lead off spot here with her rendition of one of Cat Stevens’ greatest songs (if not his greatest).
Nara Leão was known as the “Muse of Bossa Nova.” She was friends with many of the bossa nova figures before moving a bit more to the political side of the Tropicalias, including appearing on the Panis et Circensis album that was my avatar back during that countdown. While a “muse”, she was a heck of a singer and guitar player in her own right.
Well, if you guessed that my question about whether translated versions of songs would count as covers might mean some Portuguese versions of English language songs, you were right. While I included a number of Brazilian artists in my MAD 31 Worldwide list, I left out Nara Leão. Thought I’d make it up to her by giving her the lead off spot here with her rendition of one of Cat Stevens’ greatest songs (if not his greatest).
Nara Leão was known as the “Muse of Bossa Nova.” She was friends with many of the bossa nova figures before moving a bit more to the political side of the Tropicalias, including appearing on the Panis et Circensis album that was my avatar back during that countdown. While a “muse”, she was a heck of a singer and guitar player in her own right.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Covers from #31 that I know and like:
You're No Good – Linda Ronstadt (Dee Dee Warwick)
Venus - Bananarama (Shocking Blue)
Funky Town - Pseudo Echo (Lipps Inc)
Jealous Guy - Roxy Music (John Lennon)
Obsession - Animotion (Holly Knight & Michael Des Barres) -- I had no idea this was a cover
Baba O'Riley – Pearl Jam (The Who) -- I believe I have seen PJ do this live
Susie Q – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Dale Hawkins)
Working In The Coal Mine - DEVO (Lee Dorsey)
Whiskey River – Willie Nelson (Johnny Bush) -- I have seen Willie do this live; he always opens his sets with it
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm (Michael Jackson)
Big Ten Inch Record – Aerosmith (Bull Moose Jackson)
Der Kommissar - After the Fire (Falco)
You're No Good – Linda Ronstadt (Dee Dee Warwick)
Venus - Bananarama (Shocking Blue)
Funky Town - Pseudo Echo (Lipps Inc)
Jealous Guy - Roxy Music (John Lennon)
Obsession - Animotion (Holly Knight & Michael Des Barres) -- I had no idea this was a cover
Baba O'Riley – Pearl Jam (The Who) -- I believe I have seen PJ do this live
Susie Q – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Dale Hawkins)
Working In The Coal Mine - DEVO (Lee Dorsey)
Whiskey River – Willie Nelson (Johnny Bush) -- I have seen Willie do this live; he always opens his sets with it
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm (Michael Jackson)
Big Ten Inch Record – Aerosmith (Bull Moose Jackson)
Der Kommissar - After the Fire (Falco)
Mister CIA
Footballguy
All 31 of my cover songs were selected because I consider them to be great songs, but scattered thoughout these selections are songs that were especially chosen because I wanted to highlight the original artists, who in many instances are forgotten. In this round I present exhibit A, Johnny Bush (aka, Country Caruso), who had one of the greatest voices ever, in any genre or context. Unfortunately his singing career was derailed by health issues. Of all possible bad outcomes for someone with such a beautiful voice, Johnny Bush developed something called spasmodic dysphonia, " a disorder in which the muscles that generate a person's voice go into periods of spasm"
One of the all-time beautiful voices, Johnny Bush's sings Whiskey River.
One of the all-time beautiful voices, Johnny Bush's sings Whiskey River.
zamboni
Footballguy
Almost made my last five out but excluded it because I think we'll see this one a lot.
zamboni
Footballguy
Didn't know that either. Des Barres had his hands in a lot of things music and TV wise in the '70s/80s, including the famous groupie Pamela Des Barres (who he eventually married).
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
31.
Original song facts:
"Mozambique" is a song written by Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy that was originally released on Dylan's 1976 album Desire. It was also released as a single and reached number 54 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Interesting facts about the cover:
Emmylou Harris supplies the female harmony vocals on both the original and cover versions of the song. The cover was released after Buffet’s death on his posthumous album Equal Strain on All Parts.
Song: Mozambique
Artist: Jimmy Buffet / Emmylou Harris
Original Artist: Bob Dylan
Artist: Jimmy Buffet / Emmylou Harris
Original Artist: Bob Dylan
Original song facts:
"Mozambique" is a song written by Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy that was originally released on Dylan's 1976 album Desire. It was also released as a single and reached number 54 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Interesting facts about the cover:
Emmylou Harris supplies the female harmony vocals on both the original and cover versions of the song. The cover was released after Buffet’s death on his posthumous album Equal Strain on All Parts.
Doug B
Footballguy
Inner monologue:
"Wait -- is this the J. Geils Band 'Peter Wolf'?"
(listens to track, waits for vocals to kick in)
"Wow! Sounds just like the J. Geils Band 'Peter Wolf' -- gotta be him. Must be on one of his less commercial releases ..."
(flips over the cassette case** of Wolf's 1984 album Light's Out just to see ...)
"Mind. Blown.
"** This past fall, the kids helped my wife clean out a closet that's been virtually untouched since we moved in 17 years ago. They found my old cassettes! My daughter has a hand-me-down tape deck on which she was able to play the cassettes. Her and her brother called dibs on their favorites.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I remember him as the replacement for Robert Palmer in The Power Station -- Palmer didn't want to tour after their album. They performed at Live Aid with Des Barres fronting them.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I miss the other two sisters.
Doug B
Footballguy
Des Barres is one of the DJs on Little Steven's Underground Garage (Sirius XM). I always think he's fronting a little when he pimps the 1960s acts ... c'mon, you're a new wave guy!
Doug B
Footballguy
Bringing the dad jokes back:I miss the other two sisters.
"Who is The Pointer Sisters favorite guitarist?"
"Slow Hand!"
(groan)
zamboni
Footballguy
An A for effort, but he couldn't touch Palmer's jock:
Powerstation - Get It On (Live Aid 1985)
Powerstation performing at Live Aid in front of 100,000 people in the John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia USA on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organis...
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Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
the restaurant manager who had a stinky valet.
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