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She Told Me On Sunday She Was Checkin’ Me Out

June 4, 2009

After yesterday’s explosion of activity, I need to bring it down a little and get back to basics, which today feels like it could only mean Jimmie Rodgers or Hank Williams.
I’m chagrined to say neither fella has had a Vegetable yet, so let me attend to that right now.
Hey, everybody knows where Hank stands in [...]

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I’ll Make An Old Woman Blush

September 12, 2008

DAZWUM TOKKINBOWT
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 [...]

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The Night Is So Black That The Darkness Cooks

September 11, 2008

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 — [...]

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Hey! Hey! Hey!

September 10, 2008

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, [...]

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Last Night I Lay Trembling

September 9, 2008

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 [...]

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The Principal Girls Of The U.S.A.

September 8, 2008

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 [...]

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Afraid And Shy, I Let My Chance Go By

July 29, 2008

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 [...]

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Have You Felt Your Neck Skin Crawl

April 24, 2008

“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 [...]

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Night Wolves Moan, Winter Hills Are Black

February 20, 2008

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 [...]

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Don’t Talk To Me

November 28, 2007

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 [...]

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