Another Saturday night and we got somebody under the covers. All covers. Some famous songs by some one you don’t expect and some people you know well covering well known songs by others. Got so many I will probably do another couple of these over time. For now just kick your shoes off and get ready for some fun.
I am so stoked. Here I go, dude…
One artist who is rarely thought of as a “cover artist” is Joan Jett. Nearly all of her most famous hits were covers.
But good lord, she makes almost every one of those hers. Even when she did the Mary Tyler Moore theme.
Seriously, check her out. “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll.” “Do You Wanna Touch Me.” Covers.
And check out her versions of “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,” “Summertime Blues,” “Light Of Day,” “Crimson And Clover,” and “Love Hurts.” She’s remarkable.
I have practically all her albums. Including the Runaways.
+1
One thing I can tell you is:
you got to be free.
Sometimes I wonder if I’m in the wrong place.
My choices for Babesliga never win but now it’s a tune too far not to include any Bowie covers.
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Pinups is a fantastic album.
Okay, one more
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Nah, you ain’t in the wrong place. All three credit-worthy. I’m listening to them now!
If you listen to them one at a time they sound better.
A band I saw a few times in the DC area used to do Schoolhouse Rock covers in their second set.
When you’re drunk with a few hundred of your closest drunken friends, they’re a lot of fun.
“I’m Just a Bill” drunk on Capitol Hill is how Kennedy saw it!
And I’d like to see The Pretenders and Melissa Etheridge in a future Hootenanny.
The Pretenders did a great cover of the The Kinks “Stop Your Sobbing”.
Van Halen did some great Kinks covers.
I like the Kinks and think Ray Davies was a great poet, but most of their songs sound like a 45 played at 33 1/3.
Sleepwalker was a great album.
“It is time
For you to stop
All of your sobbing. . . “
I like the Pretenders cover of the Divinyls song Human on the Inside. Almost as much as the original.
My contribution to the suggestion box.
For a second there, I thought there was one more Bowie?
Oh, there it is.
Sorrow.
Never mind…
I saw the other comment before the last one, so here is another one.
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I didn’t want to bring you down.
You brought me down.
This dude has some vocal chords.
He was my favorite for a while. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars was my very favorite album, second was The Dark Side Of The Moon.
Then, I hit my Zeppelin phase. I still really like Bowie and Floyd, but Zeppelin was the greatest rock and roll band of all time.
Freebird!
You guys are trying to get me to tell you my story about the David Bowie concert I went to.
Sorry, it won’t work.
Small blessings one supposes.
Wait –
Didn’t George Harrison nick that part about “with your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue” in “Only a Northern Song”?
Sue him!
Oh.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H4jRn2o4hw4
Perhaps the best cover ever….
I’m listening to it for a second time, with the volume higher.
Someone yanked DamnCat’s audio/video?? I was listening to it.
Some dirty dog, no doubt
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H4jRn2o4hw4
I’m listening again.
She’s one million percent groovier than the Rolling Pills.
This song is good. They’re good. It’s only their reputation that gets in their own way.
If you had read my intro you may have noticed I will do more cover nights, I mean there ARE so many. Speaking of Bowie, here is Bauhaus covering Ziggy Stardust.
Listening to it now…
Very, very good — not sure if the original or the cover is the better performance.
Naturally, the composer gets the credit.
ANd one more that I was saving for the next cover Hootenanny.
Yow.
Life is good, as long as these women can play.
One wouldn’t normally think of bagpipes as a rock instrument.
Oh for ever lovin’ mother’s sake. I should save this one for something special but I just can’t. Here is an unused version for the Thunderball opening title sequence and yes it is who you think it is.
Why didn’t Johnny Cash just look at the lyrics and say “I don’t need the money that bad”?
Well they used the Tom Jones version anyway.
I had no idea that was a thing.
Covers!?! Okay…covers it is…………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdhnM3sbhRw&list=RDzf9YFW2Thy4&index=2
I watched this last night before you posted. Oh well, another one for the next Covers Hootenanny bites the dust.
That was fantastic. Quintessential.
And without looking at the keyboard? She’s something else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFwsqRrBcns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImjrekMK-x0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=367C7L5A4BQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID0AzfA8ehw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFO8UgM3YVU
Well it looks like the next Covers is going to make me go deeper.
A great cover of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJO7bcRVPvI
Leningrad Cowboys covering Sweet Home Alabama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrg0X9H6FGU
Leningrad Cowboys? Shouldn’t they have Georgia on their minds?
Annnnnnd another future tune for the Hootenanny is scratched from my list.
I can’t remember ever seeing anything odder.
Hold my beer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irLsjBDPe5c
[Referring to Literal Bohemian Rhapsody] Very good. I wish actors did this for other songs.
It’s a very good hootenanny that spans Saturday night into Sunday.
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