{"id":397,"date":"2007-03-18T20:37:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T00:37:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-03-18T20:47:58","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T20:47:58","slug":"pull-up-the-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/pull-up-the-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pull Up the Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CeFHFVJnz-A?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em><strong>Let&#8217;s settle in and talk about covers, all right?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Conjunction Junction&#8221; or any song by <strong>Randy Newman<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Conjunction Junction&#8221; or <strong>Three Dog Night<\/strong>&#8216;s version of &#8220;Mama Told Me Not to Come&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now certain: As long as you live under my roof, you shall not listen to <strong>Cat Power<\/strong>&#8216;s version of &#8220;Satisfaction&#8221;. It&#8217;s a disgrace! <em>Is there a cover song you will not allow anyone living under your roof to spin?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Which great band, by almost any rock fans&#8217; standards, does the worst covers?<\/em> I&#8217;m gonna say <strong>The Who<\/strong>. Their covers are almost always terrible, and I think it&#8217;s because at least 2 of the band&#8217;s 3 musicians can&#8217;t play their instruments in a traditional rock &#8216;n roll manner. I&#8217;m not sure if Entwhistle can do anything but Entwhistle style either, but I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s as much a contributing factor as Townshend and Moon. Did they ever make a cover &#8220;their own?&#8221; Is there a great band less capable of playing a great cover?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhich band&#8217;s recordings of covers do you prefer, <strong>The Beatles&#8217; or The Stones&#8217;<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>How about specifically as relates to their covers of <strong>Chuck Berry songs<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>If you had a beta version of <strong>Strat-o-Matic Rock &#8216;n Roll<\/strong>, what would be more interesting, Chuck Berry covering The Stones or Buddy Holly covering The Beatles?<\/p>\n<p>Along the same lines, what other major influence on an artist would you like to hear cover songs of the band they influenced?<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>Hobson&#8217;s Choice:<\/strong> Cat Power&#8217;s &#8220;Satisfaction&#8221; or Cowboy Junkies&#8217; &#8220;Sweet Jane&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s settle in and talk about covers, all right? &#8220;Conjunction Junction&#8221; or any song by Randy Newman? &#8220;Conjunction Junction&#8221; or Three Dog Night&#8216;s version of &#8220;Mama Told Me Not to Come&#8221;? I&#8217;m now certain: As long as you live under my roof, you shall not listen to Cat Power&#8216;s version of &#8220;Satisfaction&#8221;. It&#8217;s a disgrace! <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/pull-up-the-covers\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}