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« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2005, 10:12:30 PM »
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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« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2005, 07:34:44 AM »
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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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« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2005, 09:55:14 AM »
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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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« Reply #18 on: May 12, 2005, 09:59:59 AM »
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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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« Reply #19 on: May 12, 2005, 10:00:14 AM »
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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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« Reply #20 on: May 12, 2005, 11:02:07 AM »
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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« Reply #21 on: May 12, 2005, 11:14:24 AM »
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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« Reply #22 on: May 12, 2005, 12:00:45 PM »
Atomic Kitten covering Blondie covering The Paragons.
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« Reply #23 on: May 12, 2005, 12:23:44 PM »
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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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« Reply #24 on: May 12, 2005, 12:28:49 PM »
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they splice in "O Happy Day" and it works!

Yeah. I liked it!
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« Reply #25 on: May 12, 2005, 12:54:17 PM »
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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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« Reply #26 on: May 12, 2005, 02:17:19 PM »
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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.
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