There are some topics that just never grow stale. What makes the perfect cover version?
So, with a little help from YouTube, five personal favourites for the weekend…
It’s My Party (and I’ll cry if I want to)
What about yours?
(Oh yeah, a holiday bonus: Total Eclipse of the Heart. This one’s all about the performance… and it makes me cry every time.)
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[…] The Perfect Cover Version 7 04 2007 Picking up on Sharon Howard’s question, what makes the perfect cover version? […]
Mine is also Tainted Love. But Coil’s version, which is a cover of the Soft Cell version as far as I can tell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzDLeEggMQ8 Just because it’s Easter and, well, there are eggs and singing chicks, and I now am grabbing for my Scissor Sisters!
Oh — and one of my fave covers. Really. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFEhdlAes00
Also (not procrastinating, me!) Try the Kiki and Herb “Total Eclipse” … The Westlife one makes me so glad they never really hit it big in the states — I know so many adolescent girls who would have been soooo into them!
Be careful! If you come across this unawares, you could wet yourself - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV6ETVQgob0
And this is a hymn to a lost empire - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm0iQz24Aac&mode=related&search=
Heh.