shuke
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Included for shtick's sake.
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The middle-aged dummies are forming a band called "Blanket"! It's a cover band. (4 Viewers)
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Included for shtick's sake.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Whoever ranks it highest is the owner.
Rustoleum
Footballguy
Val Rannous:
Can't Help Falling in Love - Lick the Tins (Elvis Presley)
Love this cover. I remember forgetting to cancel the monthly shipment from BMG or Columbia House or somebody’s CD club and this was the first song on the Some Kind of Wonderful soundtrack that I received as a result.
Can't Help Falling in Love - Lick the Tins (Elvis Presley)
Love this cover. I remember forgetting to cancel the monthly shipment from BMG or Columbia House or somebody’s CD club and this was the first song on the Some Kind of Wonderful soundtrack that I received as a result.
krista4
Footballguy
Mt. Man
Footballguy
If only other threads had a Thumper Rule.
Did get a chance to listen to a good chunk of the Last(s) Five(s) Out(s) though beforehand. Definitely a mix of things I considered (including 5 songs in my 31) and ones I pretty much whiffed on. Looking forward to what's to come!
krista4
Footballguy
I guess I'll give it tomorrow for people to listen to these and then will post the 1-pointers on Tuesday. Doesn't seem to be much discussion so far, but I'll give it a day since it could be the weekend effect.
DrIanMalcolm
Footballguy
This is true.
Honestly there are a couple of artists I would expect to show up a lot on here, and one or two people who were such good interpreters of songs I won't be surprised to see them dominate.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Some people may have been watching football. They may now be drinking heavily.
krista4
Footballguy
There was no football yesterday. But there might have been heavy drinking anyway.
Damn, that Lions game sucked. I don’t dislike the teams that won today, but I have pretty much zero interest in The Big Game now.
simey
Footballguy
The Lions game was a big-time bummer. The Ravens never really seemed to have it together through much of their game.
I like to root for a team, but I don't care who wins the SB now. Christian McCaffrey was with the Panthers for a while, but seeing him is a reminder of how inept the Panthers are, and that they traded away one of the best players in the league for a big bag of catnip. He is a good guy, though, and I wouldn't mind seeing him get a ring. I like Andy Reid, but he has won two rings already in the past 4 years, but he may not coach much longer so why not another ring for Big Red. I don't know, I'll probably just root for a good competitive game. Dry January will be over and wet February will arrive, so maybe I'll take a shot every time the camera pans to Taylor Swift, but then I'd probably be passed out by halftime.
simey
Footballguy
@Leroy Hoard Lady Luck turned out to be a bad luck charm. 
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
You were doing great until the 3rd quarter, lol.@Leroy Hoard Lady Luck turned out to be a bad luck charm.
As bad as that game turned out they were only 4 points from going to the Superbowl, coming off a season where they won their only 2 playoff games in the last 30 years. So while it's not "all good" it was still a good season, especially for that franchise.
Tau837
Footballguy
simey
Footballguy
I don't know what happened, Leroy. I didn't walk under a ladder or break a mirror or open an umbrella inside during halftime. I don't recall any interaction with the number 9.You were doing great until the 3rd quarter, lol.@Leroy Hoard Lady Luck turned out to be a bad luck charm.
As bad as that game turned out they were only 4 points from going to the Superbowl, coming off a season where they won their only 2 playoff games in the last 30 years. So while it's not "all good" it was still a good season, especially for that franchise.
It was a great season for the Lions, and they are a fun team to root for. I'm sure it's been a fun ride for you and the fanbase. I hope the ride continues next year.
zamboni
Footballguy
Tau837
Footballguy
The Foos are one of my top 5 favorite artists of all time. They have covered at least 200 songs through various projects and live. This has always been a favorite.
Love this Lynyrd Skynyrd song, and this is a strong cover. Brent Smith of Shinedown has a better voice than Ronnie Van Zandt, though I still like the original better.
Never heard the original before hearing this cover, but I liked it a lot, as well as Petty's comments after the band played it the first time in a rehearsal ("isn't that a great ****ing song?!? it's just ****ing great!").
Included for shtick's sake. Who knew the Foos could be a Bee Gees cover band?
The Rockin'1000 has taken off somewhat since this, their first performance. Awesome concept, which they implemented to plead to the Foos to come play a concert in Cesena, Italy, and it worked! Here is an interview with Grohl about it.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I'm pretty much out of love with the Vikings. I realized that for all these years they were gaslighting me.
But your point still remains true - the Lions are in much better shape now than the Vikes and they are definitely trending in opposite directions.
zamboni
Footballguy
Nice - never heard that before and had never heard Taylor Hawkins sing. I miss the mariachi sound of the original, but solid cover.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Many SB-winning teams have at least one failed deep playoff run before they win it all.You were doing great until the 3rd quarter, lol.@Leroy Hoard Lady Luck turned out to be a bad luck charm.
As bad as that game turned out they were only 4 points from going to the Superbowl, coming off a season where they won their only 2 playoff games in the last 30 years. So while it's not "all good" it was still a good season, especially for that franchise.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I endorse this idea. I also think @krista4 should do her drunken liveblog of Give My Regards to Broad Street during the Super Bowl, since she doesn't want to watch the game.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
When the Lions didn't kick the field goal, Mr R said that if they lost by three points it would be bad.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Amongst the Last Five Outs, Blinded by the Light may be the one with the greatest gap in favor of the cover between what I think of the cover and what I think of the original. Much of that has to do with what I think of the original, which the Thumper Rule prevents me from expanding upon here.
Eephus
Footballguy
It sure has many many words. Fortunately for the Boss and the rest of us, it was only a phase.
Chaos34
Footballguy
I was in Levi's Stadium yesterday. It was pretty awesome to be there for what turned into a historical game. I'm a little confused by the experience. So, I'm gonna try to work it out here, cuz krista needs more from us.
I'm super grateful to my bf from early childhood for offering me the ticket. His mom used to say my mom half-raised him. His mom worked. My mom started babysitting him when he was just 3. He's done well in life and we were in a luxury box above the 9er bench about the 15 yard line. I hadn't seen him since 2002, but we've been communicating semi-regularly the past few years over mutual interests.
He is the biggest 9er fan I know. I am the biggest Cowboy fan he knows. We hate each other's teams, always have. He knew I would be for Detroit. In another thread I said I didn't know if I should wear my Roger Staubach jersey or get a Barry Sanders one. @rockaction suggested I should avoid potential idiots and do my buddy a solid by wearing 9er colors. I vomited in my mouth a little but turns out rock was on to something. My nephew suggested I wear all black since that would be unique and he could try to spot me. I did and he did.
I curbed my enthusiasm as the Lions were crushing SF. I'm not a salt in the wounds kinda guy, but inside I was just giddy at what I was seeing. Lions fans were doing just fine celebrating that first half. Whew, that box I was sharing was morbidly depressed at halftime. So I started lying to my friend. Telling him if Detroit could do that in the first half, SF could in the 2nd. "I've seen many epic comebacks. Keep your head up. They haven't lost yet."
Others in our box started getting into it. They started foolishly being positive about a comeback. I felt a little evil for giving them false hope, but hey who cares, they're 9er fans. Then the comeback started and these damn 9er fans started patting me on the back, high fiving me and disgusting things like that. And then, oh I am so ashamed to confess this sin. I. Started. Cheering. For. The San Fancisco 49ers. Ooof, I don't even know who I am today.
edit - was i blinded by the light?
I'm super grateful to my bf from early childhood for offering me the ticket. His mom used to say my mom half-raised him. His mom worked. My mom started babysitting him when he was just 3. He's done well in life and we were in a luxury box above the 9er bench about the 15 yard line. I hadn't seen him since 2002, but we've been communicating semi-regularly the past few years over mutual interests.
He is the biggest 9er fan I know. I am the biggest Cowboy fan he knows. We hate each other's teams, always have. He knew I would be for Detroit. In another thread I said I didn't know if I should wear my Roger Staubach jersey or get a Barry Sanders one. @rockaction suggested I should avoid potential idiots and do my buddy a solid by wearing 9er colors. I vomited in my mouth a little but turns out rock was on to something. My nephew suggested I wear all black since that would be unique and he could try to spot me. I did and he did.
I curbed my enthusiasm as the Lions were crushing SF. I'm not a salt in the wounds kinda guy, but inside I was just giddy at what I was seeing. Lions fans were doing just fine celebrating that first half. Whew, that box I was sharing was morbidly depressed at halftime. So I started lying to my friend. Telling him if Detroit could do that in the first half, SF could in the 2nd. "I've seen many epic comebacks. Keep your head up. They haven't lost yet."
Others in our box started getting into it. They started foolishly being positive about a comeback. I felt a little evil for giving them false hope, but hey who cares, they're 9er fans. Then the comeback started and these damn 9er fans started patting me on the back, high fiving me and disgusting things like that. And then, oh I am so ashamed to confess this sin. I. Started. Cheering. For. The San Fancisco 49ers. Ooof, I don't even know who I am today.
edit - was i blinded by the light?
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
We got in from Disney World late last night and today I have been listening to the Last Five Out playlist while going through work emails. I've gotten up to track 55. Here are the ones I have not heard before that have most impressed me so far:
Ballad of Spider John -- Jimmy Buffett
Night Fever -- Dee Gees
Learn to Fly -- Rockin'1000
Habits -- Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, Haley Reinhart
Echoes -- California Guitar Trio -- I love how it maintains the vibe of the original while offering an entirely different spin
Ball of Confusion -- Love and Rockets -- Reminds me that there were two other covers of this song that I should have considered. It's an extremely powerful tune and is in good hands with most artists provided they have the right level of passion. The L&R version has the right amount of passion while reworking the arrangement to show off their strengths. Bonus points for realizing they can't sing like the Temptations and coming up with a different way that worked.
Dear Prudence -- Siouxie and the Banshees -- One of my favorite Beatles songs gets goth window dressing but maintains its incredible structure
No One's Gonna Love You -- Cee-Lo Green
I Can't Go for That -- the bird and the bee
Ballad of Spider John -- Jimmy Buffett
Night Fever -- Dee Gees
Learn to Fly -- Rockin'1000
Habits -- Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, Haley Reinhart
Echoes -- California Guitar Trio -- I love how it maintains the vibe of the original while offering an entirely different spin
Ball of Confusion -- Love and Rockets -- Reminds me that there were two other covers of this song that I should have considered. It's an extremely powerful tune and is in good hands with most artists provided they have the right level of passion. The L&R version has the right amount of passion while reworking the arrangement to show off their strengths. Bonus points for realizing they can't sing like the Temptations and coming up with a different way that worked.
Dear Prudence -- Siouxie and the Banshees -- One of my favorite Beatles songs gets goth window dressing but maintains its incredible structure
No One's Gonna Love You -- Cee-Lo Green
I Can't Go for That -- the bird and the bee
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
As Dusty Springfield said via Burt Bacharach and Hal David, you just didn't know what to do with yourself.
higgins
Footballguy
The Lexington Lab Band started as a few Lexington, KY-based musicians/acquaintances that simply wanted to play the music they grew up with and give the originals an homage by playing the songs close to how they were originally recorded. This small group grew to a network of 80+ musicians with around 200 songs in their catalog.
jwb
Footballguy
I dig Bruce's version. It's a little out of place for him but it's a cool song. I like the MMEB cover a lot too.
krista4
Footballguy
I haven't listened to the Lasts Fives Outs playlist yet*, but I look forward to hearing these.
*I'm part of the problem.
zamboni
Footballguy
I discovered these guys during a YouTube rabbit hole exploration, in particular this random performance of Echoes. Was truly amazed.
The album version from Spotify that I used was much more polished obviously.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
The first three on this list could well show up in the top 31 for others, so I'll wait to talk about them.
Enjoy the Silence -- Failure (Depeche Mode cover) (would have made top 31, but not on Spotify)
Failure is a '90s band that I have touted on these boards before. They are kind of grungy and kind of proggy, and they were tapped to participate in the 1998 Depeche Mode tribute album For the Masses. They didn't synth it up but used guitars as the base of their recording, gentle acoustic at first, then grandiose electric. Synths are used as coloring and in this way the recording resembles frontman Ken Andrews' early '00s project On. At all points they let the song breathe and accentuate how good of a melody Gore and co. came up with.
Andrews and his Failure songwriting partner Greg Edwards participated in a side project called the Replicants that recorded an album of radically reworked covers. Will be interesting if anything from it shows up here -- I can see OH being familiar with it.
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSKrC7dGcY
Rappaport's Testament: I Never Gave Up -- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (Chumbawamba cover) (would have made top 31, but not on Spotify)
The first pressing of their 2007 album Living with the Living came packaged with an EP called Mo' Living. Which is mostly better than the album and is unfortunately not on Spotify. It closes with a ferocious cover of an early Chumbawamba song -- which was a inspired by a book about surviving Nazi concentration camps -- that is perfectly suited for the urgent, passionate, raucous approach that Leo usually favors. When I saw the Philly show of the tour to support the album, they closed the show with this and it was one of my favorite "spike the football" type of show endings I've ever seen.
Original (album version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JemxcjOklfg
Original (single version, title shortened to I Never Gave Up): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdD5jRM5xZk
And if I meet Hitler in the other place
I'll spit this precious soup in his face
And all my accounts will be settled, you see
'Cause Hitler never ever got the better of me
I never gave up
I never gave up
I crawled in the mud but I never gave up
I never gave up
I never gave up
I crawled in the mud but I never gave up
krista4
Footballguy
I'm just putting together the post for tomorrow. These playlists are going to be so damn fun! And with only 35 participants, they should be very manageable, but I'll still wait to see about the cadence. Right now I'm thinking 3-4 times a week instead of daily, but we'll see how it goes.
I have to say that, since we're not doing "winners" or contests, putting it all together is a freaking breeze. I don't have to make the punctuation or formatting identical like I did in the other countdowns or ensure the song or artist name are exactly the same. Whew. I feel like it's less fun without the calculations and winners and contests and such, but right now it's great that this is so easy for me.
I have to say that, since we're not doing "winners" or contests, putting it all together is a freaking breeze. I don't have to make the punctuation or formatting identical like I did in the other countdowns or ensure the song or artist name are exactly the same. Whew. I feel like it's less fun without the calculations and winners and contests and such, but right now it's great that this is so easy for me.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Please, not daily. It's too much.
rockaction
Footballguy
Good stuff. Friendship is always larger than sports. You knew that and acted upon it. I don't know, though, if I could do that for the Patriots, so you're a bigger man than I am. Good on you and I hope you had a good time with your buddy.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
There was a mistake in my last five out. My fault.
The middle song has been bolded and corrected
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Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
Listening to the Last Five Outs and realizing that I have a bunch in my Top 31. Darn it.
Favorite covers so far without including those in my Top 31?
For dance/disco tracks, it's probably Rihanna's "Same Ol' Mistakes." I just sort of like the disco-esque source material. The groove stays intact and certainly is still danceable/groovetastic. It's new to me, so I listened to the Tame Impala version and found that Rihanna stayed relatively true to the original.
For rock tracks? Ty Segall's "Every 1's A Winner." Even though its source is disco, this brings enough rock to qualify it for rock. I also needed to listen to the source for this one, which I found cool. Nice vocal work by Ty, too.
Bonus tracks: B.B. King's "Bring It On Home To Me" was my favorite of the five "Bring It On Home To Me" tracks, and it didn't take too long to decide that. Chumbawamba's "Rappaport's Testament: I Never Gave Up" also deserves mention as an excellent track. I can see it as a spike the football moment at a live show, for sure.
Favorite covers so far without including those in my Top 31?
For dance/disco tracks, it's probably Rihanna's "Same Ol' Mistakes." I just sort of like the disco-esque source material. The groove stays intact and certainly is still danceable/groovetastic. It's new to me, so I listened to the Tame Impala version and found that Rihanna stayed relatively true to the original.
For rock tracks? Ty Segall's "Every 1's A Winner." Even though its source is disco, this brings enough rock to qualify it for rock. I also needed to listen to the source for this one, which I found cool. Nice vocal work by Ty, too.
Bonus tracks: B.B. King's "Bring It On Home To Me" was my favorite of the five "Bring It On Home To Me" tracks, and it didn't take too long to decide that. Chumbawamba's "Rappaport's Testament: I Never Gave Up" also deserves mention as an excellent track. I can see it as a spike the football moment at a live show, for sure.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
To be fair to Springsteen, while I think the Pointer Sisters' version of Fire is the best one, I like his version also.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I don't believe Bruce's studio version was ever released (maybe on some box set), only live versions - and that was well after the Pointer Sisters' recording was released.
I'm not saying this for the purpose of this exercise (not looking for arguments nor do I care if someone includes it on their list) - but I'm not sure the Pointer Sisters' version should be called a "cover" - it's more of them recording a song written by someone else, which is very common in pop music.
simey
Footballguy
It definitely brings the rock. It's the dirty mocha version of a Hot Chocolate tune. HC's is funky and Ty's is sleazy fuzz. Both great listens.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Mt. Man:
Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper (Robert Hazard)
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants (The Four Lads)
There She Goes - Sixpence None the Richer (The La’s)
I always forget that these are covers. Thanks for the reminder.
Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper (Robert Hazard)
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants (The Four Lads)
There She Goes - Sixpence None the Richer (The La’s)
I always forget that these are covers. Thanks for the reminder.
simey
Footballguy
Same. I like both versions, but I like the Pointer Sisters' cover best.
simey
Footballguy
Robert Gordon released the song before the Pointer Sisters, so their version is a cover.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Then I was wrong. Never heard of Robert Gordon or his first recording of the song.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
What??
rockaction
Footballguy
Yep. "Istanbul . . ." was a great choice for a cover song by They Might Be Giants, and was one of my last few out that didn't make the top five out. If ever a '50s/'60s song was fit for TMBG, it was that one. It's silly and brilliant and wanting and funny all at the same time.
"There She Goes" is a pop gem by The La's, one that never really landed on American audiences' shores. What a great album they put out, and what a great band they were for such a fleeting act.
"Girls Just Want To Have Fun" is another fantastic song and cover choice by Cyndi Lauper. I was tempted to use her version of "Money Changes Everything," but the Against Me! version was more true to the punk/new wave fusion of the original by The Brains.
These three are all great covers.
simey
Footballguy
He is a bit rockabilly. His sound reminds me of the 50s and early 60s. His vocal style reminds me of Elvis. I like the Pointer Sisters' version way better.
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