The Sound (LA), 3/26/09: a Covers theme set

[urth]

Here's one that Dave's never ventured near: Jeff Buckley's take on Hallelujah.

Take that, Captain Kirk. BOS.

[urth]

Next up: Clapton, Jack & Ginger are goin' down to Rosedale, takin' their rider by their sides.

Yeah, I guess this is a cover but it's rarely thought of as such.

[urth]

Ah, another strong BOS candidate (and one that has a connection to a previous artist in the set): Aztec Camera's brilliant turn on Jump! Irony comes to pop music!

[RGMike]

Next up: Clapton, Jack & Ginger are goin' down to Rosedale, takin' their rider by their sides.

Yeah, I guess this is a cover but it's rarely thought of as such.

Rosedale is a neighborhood in Queens; as a 14-year-old I could never figure out why Cream would be singing about it.

[Gazoo]

I'll BOS Nirvana's take on "The Man Who Sold the World."  Lulu's version is equally good.

[urth]

Second consecutive song to be affiliated with a prior artist in the set: Nirvana reintroduces The Man Who Sold The World to a new generation of fans.

ETA: And another BOS from me. This set has turned out to be backloaded with all the good stuff.

[RGMike]

Ah, another strong BOS candidate (and one that has a connection to a previous artist in the set): Aztec Camera's brilliant turn on Jump! Irony comes to pop music!

That'd be my BOS; one of the great let's-totally-reinvent-this-song covers.  Larry really shoulda done 2 separate sets of "good" covers and "bad" covers.  But then everythng in LA is in quotation marks, I guess.

[RGMike]

Second consecutive song to be affiliated with a prior artist in the set: Nirvana reintroduces The Man Who Sold The World to a new generation of fans.

what Bowie did he play?

[urth]

Second consecutive song to be affiliated with a prior artist in the set: Nirvana reintroduces The Man Who Sold The World to a new generation of fans.

what Bowie did he play?

None. The connection is Dave Grohl, who appeared in the Foo Fighters song in the #2 slot.

Although nearly any of the songs off Pin-ups would have been far preferable to Last Kiss.

[Gazoo]

Fact-checking the back-announce: Pearl Jam and J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers each made #2 with "Last Kiss"; the Beatles had a considerably bigger hit with "Twist & Shout" than the Isleys did, #2 to #17.

[RGMike]

All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Baker Street - Foo Fighters
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - William Shatner
California Girls - David Lee Roth
Free Fallin' - John Mayer
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Crossroads - Cream
Jump - Aztec Camera
The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana
Twist & Shout - Beatles

Yeesh, John Mayer covering Tom Petty?

[urth]

Yeesh, John Mayer covering Tom Petty?

Y'know, either he skipped that one, or I tuned it out--I don't remember hearing that at all.

[Tinka Cat]

Yeesh, John Mayer covering Tom Petty?

Y'know, either he skipped that one, or I tuned it out--I don't remember hearing that at all.

same here.  I saw it listed and thought I must've been away at that point....