Isn't Satchmo's What A Wounderful World a cover? I know there are already at least a few different versions of the song; but I definitley agree that Armstrong made the best of the crop.

Howdy hello. You are correct. Willie's "Blue Eyes..." is a cover too. But both are quintesential recordings.

Miss Ella owns a whole bunch of 'em. "Angel Eyes" (ugh, how can anyone bear Frank Sinatra's version after hearing hers? Or "The Lady Is a Tramp" for that matter?), "Body and Soul," "Why Was I Born?" "I Can't Give You Anything But Love," and "Love for Sale." Hers. You can't take them away from her. Chet Baker -- now say what you will about him -- in my very humble opinion does the best "My Funny Valentine" I've ever heard. Very simple and smooth. All good.

Let's Get Lost is another one of Baker's that no one should ever ever touch.....but knowing what i know, I suspect someone like Chris Isaacs, being asimilar looking pretty boy would probably do one if he hasn't already

i first got turned on to chet baker when i heard him doing "almost blue" from the "let's get lost" soundtrack. e.c. himself said that chet baker was his favorite singer. that's gotta count for something.

no one should ever cover this

How could they? ~~~~~~ Who's E.C.? Eddie Cantor?

elvis costello

ohhh. wow, that *is* saying something.

you do realize elvis costello wrote "almost blue", right? it's off "imperial bedroom". chet baker covered it for the movie made about him in '89 (i think). by the way, i have no knowledge of ella doing "motherless child", but i've heard sarah vaughn sing it. i've also heard memphis slim do a version.

this one, however, should be on every damn karaoke playlist everywhere. shawn smith is the best singer ever. sound quality has been sacrificed for file size.

i want to understnad your links...all i see is weird mumbo jumbo being thwon on a wide screen

Personally, I have a soft spot for unusual covers. The Austin Lounge Lizards doing an uptempo sendup of "Brain Damage" by Pink Floyd The Dixie Chicks, in their original, pre-pop incarnation, singing "You Send Me." The Oysterband with Nick Lowe's "Rose of England," and New Order's "Love Vigilantes." Both done spectacularly. Boiled in Lead with Springsteen's "Mr. State Trooper," and Boney M's "Rasputin." effin brilliant, what. And then there's Boney M, singing "King of the Road," a song that's meant to be covered, but as disco??? It's a hoot! And everyone should check out Kermit Ruffins doing "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead."

A.L.L's "brain damage" is a favorite of mine, too. So is Switchblade Kitten's version of "My Heart Will Go On (theme from Titanic)".

i dunno, waffles. try right clicking and saving it that way. are you maybe on a mac? webTV? you're not missing much so don't sweat it.

I,m telling you all you NEED to hear the Recliners,you would thank me if you did,and Mike Flowers,tripping music.

I really don't think Gold Dust Woman should have been covered by Courtney Love. She's far from a gold dust woman. More like Trailor Trash Woman.

She is a hole huh?

Oh she definately is.

I,d wouldn,t throw the first punch,but if you called her a ho and she throws the first punch,then you wouldn,t go to jail for wiping the streets with her,I think she killed him.

*thinking J is becoming my heroine*.....go girl!!! and YES she did

You can give the bitch money,but you can,t buy class.

another reson why it's called detroit ROCK city: Back when Cobain was still moping about the face of the planet, Love and Hole were playing in detroit. Hole shows up at the club underneath St. Andrew's Hall, The Shelter, drunk as all mighty fuck and making a scne, threatening to kick all the girls' asses, and gets kicked out by a bouncer, shaking and yelling obscenities. When he was informed of her identity, the bouncer replies, "Oh, I thought she was one of the whores from Woodward Avenue."

Hole sucked up until they put Melissa Auf Der Maur in as bassist. She's awesome I love her, and her voice is beautiful so maybe Courtney will learn a thing or two.

Don,t count on it.

maybe courtney will just die. grunge to gucci unfuckin believable. Didn't whats his face...uh...um...Billy Corgin write half the album for them.......? melissa though.....hubba hubba

I don,t want Courtney to die,I want her to get in MAJOR trouble that she can,t buy her way out of,andend up in prison for life,with no parole.

She might at least take a bath and put some underwear on now and then...

She could also get a broomstick shoved up her!

Whoa....it seems J has strong feelings re: Courtney. Now...how do you REALLY feel about her?

perhaps kurt would still be alive if it wasn't for that whiny naggin, BUTT UGLY gold diggin no talent bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbitch

She killed Kurt I tell you,I hate the cheap bitch!!

Didn't mean to start a hate fest. Really it's just that whole underpants thing that bugs me. I don't know why...

grunge to gucci she makes me sick and she looks like an even more repulsive version of Nancy (sid and nancy)

The great David Yow was once asked if he liked Courtney Love (she allegedly had a fling with his guitar player, Duane Denison). He said no. Point blank. He did say Melissa was a very nice person, though. I trust his judgment.

So it's agreed. Courtney is a no talent. Also the fact that anybody knows who she is points to bathos of mankind as thinking life form. Did someone re-make Free Bird into a soft disco tune?

Ooh, how could I forget? My Fleetwood Mac song! Even *they* didn't do too well with it on that last live album.

no but they should just to irritate people like me much like nelson's impeccable timing, where is the long hair who sits up and screams "play some skinnard man!!!"

I think if I had to look forward to waking up next to her every morning I'd suck on a Remington too. It was obviously more pain than heroin alone could alleviate.

the fact that so many people are thinking about her when they don't even know her is what irritates me the most. who cares about courtney love?

goddamn you all. I am leaving this thread. I am not coming back to it. The fact that a man killed himself, abandoning his wife and baby, and you're all blaming his wife is making me sick. Think about how you would feel if someone you loved killed themselves, and people kept telling you it was because of You. I hope you never have to go through that. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

pass the beer nuts.

here ya go, pass the beer.

your so sensitive Gee

maybe she's guilty. beer's in the fridge. help yourself.

She killed him Gee,and had his ashes stuffed in a teddy bear,and she,s a fucking piss poor mother,wasn,t she doing heroine when that baby born,didn,t they almost take the baby away?

............mmmmmmbeer for breakfast

aren't martinis the breakfast of champions?

A joint and a Bloody Mary that,s my breakfast,tomatoe juice is good for you.

thats brunch Droop...it's not quite breaksfast its not quite lunch but its served with a slice of cantelope

martinis are one of the most foul drinks ever concocted. second only to the manhattan.

I can,t handle scotch.

i change my mind. the martini *is* the most foul drink ever concocted. at least manhattans don't have onions and olives in them.

I second the attack on martinis. They just taste...diseased. A sidecar, on the other hand, is zestifully good. So is mead.

a sidecar is a trendy drink........scotch on the rocks with a zip of coke works like a charm.

Trend or not...them things are good. Kinda strong, but good.

i was referring to the vonnegut book "breakfast of champions". a waitress in a bar would serve a martini (i'm pretty sure) and say "breakfast of champions!" the martini as a sort of symbol for american capitalism, the drive to succeed, and all its attendant problems. everybody knows that coffee with a shot of whiskey is the breakfast of champions.

Then why do I feel like a champion on some Bloody Marys??

hell, i feel like a champion on martinis and manhattans. as you will.

i feel like a champion after huffing a can of roach spray while hanging from my gravity boots, but ya don't hear me braggin' about it.

God this reminds me of a Queen song(not one of the better ones either)after 2 joints and 2 Bloody Mary,s,we are the champions of the world.

Hmmmm.....add roach spray to shopping list along with 100.000 ephedrine tabs, anhydrous amonia, coleman camping fluid, red phosphorus, get out of jail free card......

Goddam, Rhia! Sidecar's been my drink of choice for the past six years. Made right, they're right yummy. As for mead.....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....especially spiced. My housemate's got some mead in the basement, ready to be bottled. 'course a pint of old speckled hen'll do me just fine too.

Can you get mead in the States?? The only time I've ever had it was when my Lithuanian piano teacher offered it to me, and she had had it specially imported from her homeland. Damn, that's some fine stuff. One sip and you know why it was the beverage of the gods.

Chaucer,s Mead,I get it at Cost Plus,I love it too.I use to have a boyfriend who made his own.

It's made from honey, right?

Yes,check out http ://www.circus.com/~omni/mead.html

mead? somebody help me out here.

there are a couple of brands out there, Chaucer's being one, and I think that's the one that comes with the little spice pack that you're supposed to put in the pan when you mull your mead. Mmmmmmm tasty warmed spiced mead on a cold winter's night. Me, I just plop the two spice packs (they look like teabags) right into the bottle as soon as I uncork it. It's your typical mulling spices, cinnamon, allspice,cloves, etc, and it gives the mead a nice flavor. I tried a couple of other brands too, but I can't recall what they are offhand. Waffles, Mead is a fermented honey drink. Technically, it's different from honeywine, but don't ask me how. When you homebrew it, you're basically supposed to put it down in the cellar for about a year or so, and forget about it, then bottle it when you stumble across it while looking for your snowshoes.

Just imagine you are Zues getting high at Mount Olympus,just kicking back at home,drinking your mead,then getting all tingly and go off looking for a nymph.

Mmmmmmmmm......J, you summed it up right there. All tingly and off to find me a nymph.

To veer suddenly back onto a previous part of the thread, Kurt was a chicken shit bastard who got rich by ripping off the Pixies and spawned shit bands like The Offspring and Green Day by making the suits realize they could re-package punk and sell it to snotty teenagers who wouldn't know real punk rock even after I shoved my size ten jungle boot up their rooty-poo candy asses. Although NEvermind is a very good album, one of the best the Pixies or Sugar never did.

well, i hardly see similarities between the Pixies and Nirvana......and I regard Pixies as one of the most creative, unique bands of the 80s and 90s. I think Nirvana was very represenative of people like me, a new wave of angst filled teenagers who were being labeled and classified (gen x) before we were even outta high school. Forget the baby boom, they had us pegged and locked since the mid 80s. Stereotuped and classified. That to me is what Kurt and therefore Nirvana represented. And the sucky fuck bands like Offspring, Rancid etc owe a tremendous amount to the likes of Nirvana. Green Day were just sell outs period. They had some good music but that break through album was just too pussy, I mean emo core was always pussy, but that was it. If you look at their first lp on Lookout records, they printed, at least the first pressing of it anyway, a letter from a major record label asking them to sign and they show their polite and cordial "fuck you" in response. this was in 89 or early 90 I beleiev. A good 2-3 years before they went big. And one day, they just sold out period. And I fully admit that when the "punk" thing appealed to the suits and middle america I was nonetheless pissed too. Like i have said before, slamming and moshing became a weekend sport for fuckin fratboys. they had no idea of the roots of it or why it became such a thing. I worked at record store around those times and i was the biggest dick to ever Letter Jacket wearing fucker who came and scored a $35 Nirvana bootleg or some stupid fucked up "punk" band like rancid or the Offspring. The did in fact homgenize punk. ANd yes your could argue Nirvana were sell outs, but at least there were good at what they doing long before they were sell outs, and well after.....and before Nevermind I recommend Bleach, this was before David Grohl, also there is a rare 10" record with Burroughs reciting the Junkie Priest with Kurt wailing on guitar. The only disapointment with that is it was recorded seperately.

furthermore, i found it amusing that those moshing frat boys and cheerleaders never bothered to read or listen to Kurts lyrics, overall he despised most of his audience, based on his lyrics anyway.

Zeus drinks Anchor Steam. He told me.

blah blah blah blah blah. and blah.

you know, i liked toots and the maytals' version of "take me home, country roads."

I just spent a good deal of the day looking at pictures of naked God's, and I was shocked by the fact that they weren't very well endowed.

Oh wait...this was the thread I left, wasn't it? Darn!! I can't remember anything! Well, I still think you all suck.

guilty. guilty of bitchery.

Isn't that a line from Faulkner?

Droop -reggae band's cover tunes are always awesome. Check out Jimmy Cliff's "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" or Toots' "Louie, Louie". I also have a thumpin' version of "I wanna KNow what Love Is" on a compilation. Nirvana: Bleach was very good, I will agree, but Nevermind was better. I remember first hearing Bleach sitting in my friend's dormroom back in early 91, and my other friend Dan telling me that this band would be the next big thing. Since then, I have always trusted him on what bands are worth listening to, and he hasn't been wrong by me (Kitchens of Distinction, Love Spit Love and Joe jackson are some of the acts he's turned me onto). And the quiet verse -loud chorus is totally a Pixies thing, and Cobain admitted that they ripped off the Pixies for "Smells Like Teen Spirit". by odd coincidence, I am listening to one of Cobnain's favorite bands, the Meat Puppets.

don't forget the Vaselines...and yeah Pixies could have been an influence...i didn't see it that way........i see Nirvana as a little less controlled with their angst and nihilism. Where as Pixies seemed a little more refined and even romantic.........

Speaking of ripping off the Pixies...has anyone heard Modest Mouse? It's just shameful. Have you heard Tori Amos' cover of "Teen Spirit"? Whatever you may think of her, she really does a good job of capturing the secret sadness of that song.

i've heard all of those, semillama. there's a local radio station that has jamaican/carribean/african music shows five nights a week where i live. the dj's are all local guys from africa or the west indies who bring in their own record collections - you get to hear a lot of different and obscure stuff. one of the most amazing covers i've ever heard is by a nigerian reggae band called mandator - "coat of many colors" by dolly parton. reggae artists seem strangely attracted to country music.

The Meat Puppets are home boys,this is sad,http://www.phoenixnewtimes.c om//1998/111298/feature1-1.html,a friend of his O.D. and died at Cris,s house a few months ago.

although i think their singer/guitarist is an asswipe, modest mouse are much more than merely pixie rip-offs. everyone's ripping off someone. the art is in the delivery. three-note riffs are ubiquitous but three-note riffs that ROCK are precious and few. nirvana could make three, even two notes rock. that's their talent. kyuss do the same thing. melvins can make one note rock at 6 beats per minute. it's a lot harder to pull that off than it might sound. it takes the soul of an artist and it's so obvious when it's there and even more obvious when it isn't.

It's true...Modest Mouse is not without talent. I like that "Dramamine" a lot. But that singer sounds so much like Black Francis, it's beyond a coincidence. At least be subtle about your influences.

i believe there is nothing new anymore.....it's all been done...we all have our influences (as musicians) it's just a matter of how you regurgitate those influences and how interesting the final outcome is. Example Stereolab "ripped off" VU, Can, Faust, Silver Apples and Pink Floyd. And nowdays they have had a samba influence as well. HOWEVER, they do it well. Their songs are indeed unique and original, the sounds and maybe the techniques may not be "new" per sey but their songs are indeed their own. In my photography, i don't deny the few influences I have, and my aesthetics certainly have been done before, however, my images are indeed MY images, they may be similar to others by coincidence and maybe not, BUT it's MY eye, and MY craft. I think the same can apply to music. Not to mention hwo many Stereolab rip offs there are out there, and most of them, if not all suck at it.....

yeah, i haven't heard much stereolab. that kind of music holds my interest for about a minute. i think, "this is pretty cool, who is this and where can i get it?" then after a minute, i've had enough and start looking for exit signs. undoubtedly, stuff i like has that effect on others. rhiannon, you could also say they sound like the fall and sometimes even bob dylan, not so much in sound but in delivery. "styrofoam boots" has strong hints of both.

yeah....tHE fALL......thats it....good one.. remember the wedding present?

My beef with Modest Mouse is that they *complain* when people compare them to the Pixies. That's like you, Waffles, taking a close up picture of your wife's eye with 2 water drops on her eyelids and tons of mascara on, and then getting all huffy when someone says it reminds them of a Man Ray photo. Ummm...duh. Paul Valery also said (about poetry) that there's no use in trying to be original, because it's all been said. I believe that, too. Sort of. Same with the quiet verse-loud chorus business. Sure, some people are writing songs like that to cash in on the guaranteed-successful formula. Others just happen to write songs with that structure, and it sounds really good when they do it, and they would have done it even if Nirvana hadn't existed. Ahhh, I just don't like Modest Mouse.

The people, that is. There music is nice.

i don't think i've heard the wedding present. i used to have every fall album except dragnet. i never could find that one. i think the album that defines them the best is the 10" "slags, slates, etc." mark e. smith is a trip.

similar english new wave/pop rock, however the wedding present was overall more happy...the fall were a little more punk

I saw Modest Mouse in Seattle at RKCNDY with Built to Spill and boy did they suck. That was the way beginning, I don't know how they are now. Pedro the Lion sucks too. Peter Parker is really good.

Built to Spill...my brother refers to that band as "the band that sounds like Modest Mouse"...interesting. I like Built to Spill, but only one song at a time. His voice is too much for me to take for very long. THough that song "I Would Hurt a Fly" is incredible, IMO.

Built to Spill is just an all round good indie band, they have good riffs and tunes, ya think?

Yeah, I think so, I really like the riffs, I don't know what cd it's from, I think the one before the newest one has the song "Kicked it in the Sun" good song. I turned it into the cd store though, I kinda feel bad about that, but I never listened to it. Turned it in with Sebadoh, I just do not like them. Built to spill though is good, Ben Folds Five does a cover of Twin Falls Idaho and it's really good.

I think I can explain some of the affinity between reggae and country music: Besides the obviuos roots in Caribbean folk and African rhthyms, a lot of early reggae artists (including Toots) were influenced by what they could catch of American radio, which included early rock and roll and early country. I think the connection lies the emphasis on the "2" and "4" beats that comes across in early country. The vocals seem to take more from the early R'N'R, tho, like "Miss Jamaica" and "shotgun". Other tunes don't seem to have asmuch a connection though, like one of my all-time favorites, "Carry Go Bring Home". I would've talked about The Wedding Present and Modest Mouse, but I know absolutely nothing about them.

well, i don't have any wedding present but here's a few modest mouse songs. i don't necessarily love them but they're all right. i like built to spill a lot more. actually, there's no comparison between the two except maybe for indie status. take your pick, my dsl (shut up, swine) is working better now. these links should be good for a while.