Category: Covers
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Save a Prayer for Number 1
There’s been a campaign to get Eagles of Death Metal’s Duran Duran cover to UK number 1 after the events of the Bataclan in Paris, and it looks like it will succeed. I’m not a big fan of EODM but I love ‘Save A Prayer’, I love that cover and love Duran even more –…
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Rounds – Big Love (Fleetwood Mac cover)
Big Love by Rounds One of the highlights of the year so far is seeing Fleetwood Mac in concert at last. Surprisingly my big gig moment of 2015 out of all the gigs I’ve been to is the aforementioned doing a timely long psychedelic jam version of Gold Dust Woman. Sadly Kirk who went with…
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Mac Sabbath
Here is Mac Sabbath with their track “Frying Pan’ which of course is an evil McDonalds themed song to the tune of Iron Man…apparently got the thumbs up from Sabbath themselves, the band features Ronald Osbourne, Slayer McCheeze, Catburglar and Grimalice. A review of the performance is here, and it sounds WAY more than just…
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Disco Bollywood Part 2
If you’ve listened to the shows, you’d probably know I have a thing for disco, and also Indian/Bollywood music, especially Usha Uthup and ABBA Hindi I posted exactly (spook!) 5 years ago, and strange covers in general. Well I discovered this video and ended up delving (again) into the brightly coloured world of silver costumes…
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Same Love – Angel Haze
As Pride Month comes to a close, here’s Angel Haze with their amazing freestyle version of Macklemore’s Same Love. Fallen in love with this song all again, I’d argue better than the original – and incidentally this song is how they came out as pansexual and later agender.
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Zeppelin Kids
I’ve gone on record to say I’m not a big fan of Led Zeppelin, but I love this amazing medley of Kashmir, The Ocean, and Immigrant Song of kids 7-12 playing on percussion instruments. Sounds ace, and not your usual ‘school’ or student production. Very professional. (via Andrea Hamilton)