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What better way to end Covers Week than with Ween at the height of their considerable powers colliding with the fresh-from-space [Your Name Here] Eye and the rest of the beloved Boredoms.
Z-Rock Hawaii - Bad To The Bone from Z-Rock Hawaii (apparently the rights-holder got tired of seeing bootlegs sold on eBay, and decided [...]

Don’t tell Mrs. Vegetables, but there’s no one in the world I love more than Rob Halford. I always feel that way when I listen to Priest.
And what’s a salute to cover songs without one of the most successful? Judas Priest is probably better-known for Green Manalishi than Fleetwood Mac, but don’t be misled — [...]

One of the great joys or pains of cover tunes is when you become much more familiar with the cover before you ever hear the original.
That’s the way it was for me and “Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love.” (How did I make it through the 80s without hearing Van Halen’s version? New Wave and clean living, [...]

Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan’s What A Wonderful World EP was a cover song maven’s delight. First you had both the boys crooning the hell all over the old standard, then you had them covering each other.
Shane MacGowan seersly owns “Lucy,” though. Once that belltower rings, that song no longer belongs to Nick Cave.
Shane MacGowan [...]

Heyyyy, guess what? It’s Covers Week! Are you ready? Then let’s continue.
Montreal band Karmadoza did a whole covers album, focusing solely on one of the Great American Rock Acts, the B-50-mother-lovin-2’s. They throw a hard-rock thing at it, which for me hella works on this track rat cheer.
Karmadoza - 52 Girls from The K-52’s: A [...]

This mighty titan of a country song was written by two people who have passed on in the last couple years — Cindy Walker (who also wrote “Sugar Moon” with Bob Wills) and Eddy Arnold. Arnold and Jerry Vale both charted with it in 1956, but when Ray Charles covered it in 1962, people wept [...]

“Hey, other Dutch person — I’ve got an idea! Let’s do a compilation album of electro bands.”
“Well, Floortje, I gotta tell ya. It’s been done.”
“Well then, how about a compilation album of electro bands doing Iron Maiden covers! ”
(expression of shock)
“In your face, other Dutch person!”
Either you think this album is the sweetest thing ever [...]

I’ve had this one rattling around in my noggin for a couple days. It’s another one of those songs I didn’t realize was a cover until recently. It was written by Dave Alvin when he was in The Blasters (a band I’ve obviously not paid enough attention to). Alvin dedicated it to Hank Williams [...]

I don’t know what I was going to post originally, but this is what was in my brain this morning as I awoke. I think this was the first Nick Cave-related record I ever bought — the beginning of a long, beautiful relationship. Kicking Against The Pricks is all cover songs, and although [...]

Another early post because I’m back on the road Friday — hope you enjoyed Covers Week.
Laibach started in Yugoslavia in 1980, and tested the limits of what was allowable under the Communist regime by producing music and art that dealt heavily in fascistic imagery. You could say Queen did the same thing, only the [...]