Three Weird Cover Versions to Spark Up Your Monday
Be honest. You do NOT want to be at work today, yet here you are. Why not burn away some time with these three weird cover versions that you can then share around
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Be It Resolved: These Covers Are Better Than the Originals
I’m a big fan of cover versions, especially the cases where the remake is better than the original. Here is my totally subjective list of ten covers that I believe eclipsed the originals.
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Love Cover Versions? Then Enjoy This Doc: “The Joy of the Cover Version”
The Lonely Vagabond, a fan of all sorts of music documentaries, offers up three suggestions to help your Monday pass more enjoyably. We being with this 2015 film called Better Than the Original:
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So What Is Temple of the Dog Doing in Concert When They Run Out of Songs?
Temple of the Dog (the retroactive supergroup featuring members of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden) is on tour for the first time in its existence (sadly minus Eddie Vedder), performing songs from their one-and-only
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Eminem Arranged for the Piano
Yes, it can be done. In fact, this person did with fourteen Eminem songs. (Via Holy Kaw)
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Iron Maiden Lullaby Album Coming Next Month
God bless the people behind the Rockabye Baby collections, CDs that turn the most unlikely songs into lullabies for your young ones. So far, they’ve tackled Nine Inch Nails… …Tool…. …and Nirvana… …among
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Someone Has Finally Started Work on a Collection of Punk Versions of Songs from The Simpsons
Dan Cribb, a singer-songwriter from Perth, Australia, has a serious Simpsons obsession. He’d been thinking about paying tribute to the show’s music by covering a bunch of songs punk-style for an album. It’s called
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What If Adele’s “Hello” Was Sung by the Movies?
Then it would be this awesome. Or something. Or maybe you’d prefer a marching band version.
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A Song for Everyone Who Prefers Streaming to Listening to CDs
This comes via Andy Shernoff (vocals by Tricia Scotti)–with apologies to Blondie, I suppose. It’s for everyone who prefers streaming to physical media like CDs, vinyl and cassettes. Maybe we should send a
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Don’t Have Time to Listen to Adele’s 25? Here are All the Songs in Four Minutes
And the Adele memes and parodies just keep on comin’. And given the sales figures for 25 (3 million alone in America in its first week), letting people do their thing with her music
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Random Music News for Friday, November 20, 2015
On this date in 1985, a small company called Microsoft released a new operating system called Windows. Version 1.0 was awful. With so many people expected to buy Adele’s 25, is it any
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