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« on: May 10, 2005, 06:03:07 PM »
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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« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2005, 10:56:33 AM »
just signed on -- Bonnie Raitt doing SRV, "Pride & Joy".  Thanks for the tip!
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« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2005, 11:34:28 AM »
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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« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2005, 11:49:49 AM »
OMG! U2 doing Lou Reed, "Satellite of Love". I've never heard this before.
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« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2005, 11:53:36 AM »
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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« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2005, 12:35:10 PM »
OMG2! Melanie's rendition of "Ruby Tuesday", another lost early-'70s track.
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« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2005, 12:46:54 PM »
WTF! Patti Smith doing "When Doves Cry"! Where do they find this stuff?

Gaz -- send Radio VH1 a resume pronto!
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what's the url?
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2005, 12:58:50 PM »
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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« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2005, 01:08:27 PM »
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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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« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2005, 01:41:53 PM »
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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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« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2005, 02:02:16 PM »
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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« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2005, 02:14:24 PM »
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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« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2005, 02:25:27 PM »
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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« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2005, 05:23:44 PM »
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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if we had the url, we might be able to hack it.
« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2005, 05:42:08 PM »
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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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