You try and blow some tasty and harmonically apt riffs behind them, especially as fills between the vocal phrases or at the end of each line and they tell you to keep it down or STFU because you're too loud playing at ppp. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on Octoby Steve McI.Is it just me or do vocalists, guitarists and today's crop of rock and pop musicians all go to a school where they are indoctrinated that a saxophonist should be seen and not heard except for a short 2 chorus solo that they, the prima donas, will permit him or her to take? I swear it bugs the hell out of me when playing with these people-guitarists who shred chorus after chorus after chorus both in their own extra-long solos and behind the vocalist, drummers who bash away continuously and not just to keep time but hitting the damn cowbell and anything else that booms or clanks, and the keyboard players that play continuous right hand riffs and arpeggios with their lefthand comped chords during the entire song. Now there are lots of versions of it out there, most of them covering Blondie’s cover. Most people don’t know that this was originally an obscure reggae song before Blondie added the horns and turned it into a big hit. It’s slower than the original with a fantastically insistent drumbeat and great washes of distorted guitar.īlondie “The Tide Is High” (The Paragons) And then the other half are absolutely inspired like this one. About half of their covers just sound like a generic Smashing Pumpkins song. The Pumpkins are really hit and miss as a cover band. This comes to us from the wonderful When Pigs Fly compilation. And when I think of the Box Tops (which honestly isn’t all that often) “sleazy” and “seductive” are not the words that come immediately to mind. There’s something sleazy and seductive going on here. And needless to say, Lee Rocker is one of the best rock and roll stage names ever. So this roots-rock treatment is quite a treat. This song is such an iconic new-wave anthem that everybody that covers it seems to be afraid to do anything new with it. Lee Rocker “One Way Or Another” (Blondie) But I love the Puppini Sisters and this Andrews Sisters style take on the song makes me smile. I have no affection for disco, especially as performed by former new-wave trendsetters.

The Puppini Sisters “Heart of Glass” (Blondie) One thing that you can’t argue is that they covered a huge amount of musical ground. There are several ways to view the career of the band Blondie: vehicle for Debbie Harry, genre-hopping musical opportunists, new-wave sellouts, creative visionaries. I will not repost any songs that I originally posted over twelve months ago.

That means the oldest songs I will repost are ones originally posted in October 2007. I will only repost songs from the last twelve months. There’s still time to let me know if there are any songs from the last twelve months that you’d like reposted. Vote Early Vote Often: Next week is the second anniversary of Cover Freak.

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