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Main Discussion Area => Stream of Consciousness => Topic started by: Gazoo on May 10, 2005, 06:03:07 PM
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So I felt stuck in a bit of a rut with my online listening -- little on Technicolor Web of Sound or Drive Deep Tracks surprises me anymore -- so I checked the Windows Media Player recommended stations on a whim. One of them was a VH1-run station, "Cover to Cover." I didn't even know VH1 programmed online radio, and this was a nice idea: all covers, all the time. POC would approve. I listened for an hour, heard one horrible effort (Jewel doing "Sweet Home Alabama," belting fakely; I guess Joan Osborne wasn't available) and three very interesting ones:
Ray Charles doing the Bellamy Brothers' "Let Your Love Flow" (I'll bet $10 that Big & Rich cover this next year to win over Music Row)
Toploader doing "Dancing in the Moonlight" (dunno who they are, but they Britify it c. 2000)
Aimee Mann doing "Nobody Does It Better" (who on EARTH came up with this pairing?)
Worth checking out, at any rate.
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just signed on -- Bonnie Raitt doing SRV, "Pride & Joy". Thanks for the tip!
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I'm digging this. 30 minutes in and only now it's the first song that I've heard previously, Toad the Wet Blanket's KISS cover, "RnR All Nite".
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OMG! U2 doing Lou Reed, "Satellite of Love". I've never heard this before.
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and now Dobie Gray's lovely version of "Loving Arms" which I haven't heard since it was his follow-up to "Drift Away" back in '73. Not sure who did the original, tho'.
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OMG2! Melanie's rendition of "Ruby Tuesday", another lost early-'70s track.
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WTF! Patti Smith doing "When Doves Cry"! Where do they find this stuff?
Gaz -- send Radio VH1 a resume pronto!
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I was trying to find it, and the closest I got was some place on the vh1 radio site that said no macintosh.
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I was trying to find it, and the closest I got was some place on the vh1 radio site that said no macintosh.
here's the link, FWIW:
http://www.vh1.com/music/radio/stations/cover_to_cover/station.jhtml
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I was trying to find it, and the closest I got was some place on the vh1 radio site that said no macintosh.
here's the link, FWIW:
http://www.vh1.com/music/radio/stations/cover_to_cover/station.jhtml
not available on Mac!
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Here's Chrissie Hynde's version of 10cc's "I'm Not in Love" from the Indecent Proposal sndtk. Surely this is a 10cc song even Gaz could love! Chrissie can sing anything and I'd swoon.
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U2 again, this time with Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot"
and here's k.d. covering "The Air That I Breathe", which Gaz just mentioned recently.
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Company B (!) covering "Walk on the Wild Side" (!?!). Sounded like they said "volume" instead of "valium". LOL!
Gaz, I owe you big time for this tip -- this has been the most entertaining afternoon in ages.
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i'm shouting like geoff - not available on mac! bummer. i could dig it. i tried accessing directly from wmp, but i don't know the url to the vh1 station...
the kd take on bread is on her drag album. a fantabuluss covers album.
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i'm shouting like geoff - not available on mac! bummer. i could dig it. i tried accessing directly from wmp, but i don't know the url to the vh1 station...
the kd take on bread is on her drag album. a fantabuluss covers album.
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Mike, I'm so glad you're digging the station. I was unable to figure out from the page's source code what the back-door URL is to launch the stream directly. Sorry, Mac-folk. :(
P.S. Now in HEAVY radio rotation here, speaking of covers, is an absolutely needless and pointless reballadizing of Roxette's "Listen to Your Heart." Bleah.
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Mike, I'm so glad you're digging the station. I was unable to figure out from the page's source code what the back-door URL is to launch the stream directly. Sorry, Mac-folk. :(
P.S. Now in HEAVY radio rotation here, speaking of covers, is an absolutely needless and pointless reballadizing of Roxette's "Listen to Your Heart." Bleah.
speaking of reballadizing: the worst thing I heard on Cover to Cover yesterday was LeAnn Rimes doing "Purple Rain". Yikes.
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speaking of reballadizing: the worst thing I heard on Cover to Cover yesterday was LeAnn Rimes doing "Purple Rain". Yikes.
I listened for a bit yesterday, and enjoyed some of it, but a lot of what I heard came off very MOR to my ears. But they sure have a lot of Prince covers in their catalog--I heard a hip-hop version of When Doves Cry that was inferior to the original, imo. And also heard two different takes on Ruby Tuesday (Melanie and someone else I can't recall). A large portion of their playlist seems to be drawn from movie soundtracks of the last 10 years.
The weirdest thing I heard was the Austin Lounge Lizards' bluegrass version of Dark Side of the Moon. I kid you not.
I get the impression that Accuradio is providing the stream for VH1--the M.O. seems to be about the same.
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And also heard two different takes on Ruby Tuesday (Melanie and someone else I can't recall).
The Coors, I should expect. (They did a live album of covers a couple years ago; the highlight was performing Ryan Adams's "When the Stars Go Blue" with Bono.)
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The weirdest thing I heard was the Austin Lounge Lizards' bluegrass version of Dark Side of the Moon. I kid you not.
Sorry I missed that -- one of my fave weird-ass covers of all time.
It IS a bit MOR -- but that was fine with me. Even Natalie Cole doing "Gotta Serve Somebody" sounded nice. I'll probably log on again today after Dave.
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Hmmm... started off today with the same song I logged onto yesterday (Bonnie covering SRV). Not an auspicious beginning.
And now it's Shaggy, doing his usual marbles-in-my-mouth "toasting" on a reggae-fied "Angel of the Morning" with some woman.
OMG, Lou Reed doing "This Magic Moment"???
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Hoopla covering "Redemption Song". I know it's been done before by others- and rather well, too (it's a killer song). But, no matter how good a cover may be- this song is SO Bob Marley's.
"Have no fear of those who oppose you" as opposed to "have no fear of atomic energy". Interesting.
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Atomic Kitten covering Blondie covering The Paragons.
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Hoopla covering "Redemption Song". I know it's been done before by others- and rather well, too (it's a killer song). But, no matter how good a cover may be- this song is SO Bob Marley's.
"Have no fear of those who oppose you" as opposed to "have no fear of atomic energy". Interesting.
they splice in "O Happy Day" and it works!
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they splice in "O Happy Day" and it works!
Yeah. I liked it!
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And also heard two different takes on Ruby Tuesday (Melanie and someone else I can't recall).
The Coors, I should expect. (They did a live album of covers a couple years ago; the highlight was performing Ryan Adams's "When the Stars Go Blue" with Bono.)
indeed -- and here they are.
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And also heard two different takes on Ruby Tuesday (Melanie and someone else I can't recall).
The Coors, I should expect. (They did a live album of covers a couple years ago; the highlight was performing Ryan Adams's "When the Stars Go Blue" with Bono.)
indeed -- and here they are.
Another reason I suspect Accuradio is behind this: they seem to repeat a lot of the same songs on a day to day basis, so if you listen on three separate days, you might hear a few of the same songs each time.