Tag: Music of Richmond, Virginia
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Brandi Carlile covers Pat Benatar
Going through CoverMeSongs Covers of 2021, and this one by Brandi Carlile hit me like a brick. Covering 80’s classics like Pat Benatar is a major plus from me, but when you realise these were rescheduled shows from 2020 that the lockdown delayed, the message of “We Belong’ gets a whole new meaning. I’m no…
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GWAR cover Pet Shop Boys & Jim Carroll
Just seen this – pure genius, GWAR cover West End Girls as part of AV Undercover and then seque into their version of Jim Carroll’s People Who Died as a salute to Oderus \m/
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RIP Mark Linkous aka Sparklehorse
(Hundreds of Sparrows) Sad news I heard via the radio today about the suicide of Mark Linkous aka Sparklehorse. Maybe not a name/band you know of, but Good Morning Spider and later Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot were an important part of my life in the late 90’s. It’s a cliche to say ‘got me through some bad times’…