Coverville has a show out featuring covers of the Billboard top songs of the day, and I was excited to fire it up on Friday at the Y. Ye Gods, as Grandma Anna would say. Was it really this bad? Were we not the tastemakers we styled ourselves to be. Check out the list of songs:
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Original Artist
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Heartbreaker
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Dionne Warwick
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Kitty (Mickey)
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Racey
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Rock the Casbah
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Clash
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Baby Come To Me
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Patti Austin with
James Ingram
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Maneater
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Hall & Oates
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Africa
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Toto
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Sexual Healing
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Marvin Gaye
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Dirty Laundry
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Don Henley
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The Girl Is Mine
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Michael Jackson
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Down Under
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Men At Work
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Not exactly the Golden Age is it? I'm a little weary of Maroon 5, Pink and Ne Yo on Pulse 102, but I'm not sure I prefer this group. I will say that, of this list, the only two songs in my Library are the Clash and Marvin Gaye, and both represent great artists past their prime, who have done much better work. In fact, the former has risen in my view from "they're ok" (1983 me) to "they are one of the best bands ever (2013 me). I highly recommend the Box Set.
"Down Under" is a legitimately awesome song. And "Africa" is a toe-tapper, as long as you don't listen too closely to the lyrics, which are objectively terrible.
ReplyDeleteNot sure I speak-a your language vis a vis Down Under. And don't you mean to say that Africa is a Toto tapper?
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, its a better song once you've downed a few Fosters.
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