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For the most part I chose favorite artists covering favorite artists.
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You wouldn't think a song written by Alain Toussaint would sound good when arranged as ... mechanically ... as Devo does, but it succeeds. I remember hearing the Devo version on the radio when I was a tween.
A few others I wanted to highlight as favorites from this round:
"Superwoman" (Jonathan Butler and Stevie Wonder) - I'm not sure this cover needed to be made, but I'm glad it was.
"Way Down in the Hole" (The Blind Boys of Alabama) - This reminded me that one of my prepared but ultimately not posted lists of five was "Five songs Pip won't listen to." It was just five covers by Tom Waits, Billy Bragg, and Lucinda Williams.
The original of "Whiskey River" - thanks for posting this link. I did seek out several of the originals of songs I didn't know in this round, and this was the best of them.
My favorite new-to-me cover of this round: "A House Is Not a Motel" by Yo La Tengo.
at the bolded. You can tell me what they are, but I won't listen to them. 
FYI I am not a fan of Lucinda Williams' voice, but wikkid was much more of a hater of her than I am.
Ah, this was nice.
Someone's a fan of The Wire! But yes - this was a good version of the song, from the first season if I recall. Probably the best one.
Another one of those "This was a cover?"
You never heard the Falco version of Der Kommissar? It got played on MTV along with the After the Fire version.
He sprinkles in a good bit of English among the German lyrics (“ … all my funky friends …”).
I know, and it always pained me that he hated her.
Rapping in German is just so wrong sounding.
DEVO had the great good sense to keep the essential groove. It always works for me.
I think the goofy video of him running/dancing with the fake road background was more memorable than the song itself.
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Interesting. Of course, you're talking to the person who had his friend burn him a CD of the Mermaid Avenue albums minus the tracks with Bragg vocals.I know, and it always pained me that he hated her.
One of the Billy Bragg ones doesn't sound that Billy Braggy to me. He and Joe Henry did a whole album of covers of songs about riding the rails. I can't remember which one sounded un-Braggy, but it was The Midnight Special or Waiting for a Train. I liked their version of Gentle on My Mind quite a bit, too.
Gen Z and Millennials aren't old enough to get Diner references.
Obviously love this one as it was on my MAD31 Around The World list.
Always enjoyed Jimmy Somerville's work but will forever associate his band with The Dead Milkmen's You'll Dance to Anything and Rodney A sneering "You'll dance to anything by the Communards."
The only cover on yesterday's list that I've seen live. Not a PJ guy, but was a high point of the show.
Excellent choice. No doubt we'll be seeing a lot more Linda R over the coming weeks.
As a Baltimore native and now long-time resident, I'm obligated to love this song. Or so I thought. Read yesterday in local news that several Baltimoreans were kind-of pissed that the announcers dropped a reference to The Wire in the closing minutes of Sunday's AFC Championship game, complaining how reductive it is about the city.* For someone who previously spent 15 years in Philly and is a dyed-in-the-wool Eagles fan, hearing folks whine about a single mention of possibly the greatest TV show ever seems incredibly silly. Try decades of every broadcaster feeling the need to bring up snowballs at Santa, batteries at JD Drew, or cheering an injury to Michael Irvin.** Boo-freaking-hoo Baltimore.
* Whether this is just another instance of media outlets scraping Twitter for outrage merchants, I can't say. I do know that everyone seemed to love it when Robert Smith wore an Omar Comin' tee shirt at last summer's Cure show, so maybe that's the case.
** Just bringing some Eagles thread magic to see if I can get @rockaction off on a rant.
We're gonna say it again.
No judgement, but someone has to be enduring an essexential crisis to go with that cover.
This is the info I come to this thread for!
I won't give it away but I remember a version between those 2 that got maybe the most airplay.
Nice didn’t realize that was a cover. Love the Communards song and it could have made my list had I known.
Chaos told me he specifically put this one at the end of his list so that he would own it.
It's mine. I'm also surprised it was new to Pip. It's at the point where it's kinda played, but it's still a must add for me for a list like this. I liked it so much I tried to become a Disturbed fan. I can only take that kind of metal in small doses though. They do have some high quality lyrics for sure. I have become a Dave Draimon (lead singer) fan though. He's a good Jewish Boy, classically trained vocalist, smart dude, interesting interview for sure.
Sorry, kids. But this is my only submission on YouTube. All the rest are on Spotify. Although I have a couple links to originals that are YouTube...
I remember them singing, but I don't remember what they sang. I watched Y&R back in college, and I remember the triangle of Tracy/Danny/Lauren, and at some point Cricket came into the Danny love interest picture, but she didn't sing. I remember Gina's restaurant was the place to eat and drink in Genoa City.
Yes!!!! I forgot about Gina's. Paul, who married Cricket, was a bartender at Gina's before he got his PI license. The other big restaurant was The Colonnade Room, which was for fancy people like Victor or Mrs. Chancellor.
Paul was cute. Mrs. Chancellor and Jill used to get into some good fights.
This sounds a lot different than Willie's version. It's good.
Poor wording on my part.
