Re: Cover songs?
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Totally agree on the Coltrane. But do standards count as covers? Probably 80% of jazz is artists covering other artists' material, so I did have reservations about including it.
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Hi, I love great covers; they often improve on the original artist's version. One of the definitive ones is Joe Cocker's cover of the Box Tops' hit "The Letter." Leon Russell's backup piano is outstanding: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=4RnjWLVyMps Cocker's version of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on a Wire" is also great. I much prefer listening to Jennifer Warnes' covers of Leonard Cohen songs on her album "Famous Blue Raincoat" than to Cohen himself (not to diminish Cohen's talent, but Warnes is a fine singer and Cohen isn't). Alan
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OMG! Forgot "W/a Little Help from My Friends" by Cocker. No one ever complained then. It redefined the song (and covering The Beatles) forever.
A horrible one: House of the Rising Sun by Frigid Pink
(Not to be confused with Shocking Blue: "I'm Your Venus.")
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Absolutely! The definitive version, no question.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned grunt's thread on cover songs from last year. It got a lot of traffic.
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I was wondering when someone would link to that. I was too lazy to. I was also too lazy to re-post what I posted in that thread. I must be done trying in 2010.
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Does somebody need a Winston Churchill quote of inspiration?
Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.
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Always call the place you live a house. When you're old, everyone else will call it a home.
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And we ALL forgot Dread Zeppelin's "Hairway to Steven." Florida's answer to metal, The Fuggs and Weird Al.
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