{"id":1973,"date":"2008-04-18T16:35:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T20:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2008-09-15T10:18:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T14:18:55","slug":"covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/04\/covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s funny, folks are talking about their\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/patricklogan.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/covers.html\">favourite cover songs<\/a>, and here I was about to blog about one of my favourite albums of all time &#8211; coincidentally a cover album &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Masses-Album-Depeche-Mode-Songs\/dp\/B000009PNY\">For the Masses<\/a>, which is a tribute album to Depeche Mode.  Four of my all time favourite covers are on this album;<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TxEzEW4BWNg\">Never Let Me Down Again<\/a>, Smashing Pumpkins<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Dishwalla\/_\/Policy+of+Truth\">Policy of Truth<\/a>, Dishwalla<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Meat+Beat+Manifesto\/_\/Everything+Counts\">Everything Counts<\/a>, Meat Beat Manifesto<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MdHzsfz7alk\">Master and Servant<\/a>, Locust<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Here&#8217;s the rest of my favourites, in no particular order;<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go\">Hurt<\/a>, Johnny Cash covering Nine Inch Nails<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v52Igdotisk\">Mad Mad World<\/a>, Michael Andrews covering Tears for Fears<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ILLFUBCymGM\">End of the World<\/a>, Great Big Sea covering R.E.M<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L5KRVtjgMkM\">Helpless<\/a>, KD Lang covering Neil Young<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VnzoF2ZlQw0\">Landslide<\/a>, Smashing Pumpkins covering Fleetwood Mac<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qxThvhtoqG8\">There She Goes<\/a>, Sixpence None the Richer covering The La&#8217;s<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JBJHszCsc2g\">American Woman<\/a>, Lenny Kravitz covering The Guess Who<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>(wow, complete performances at Youtube or last.fm for all of them, that&#8217;s pretty cool)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s funny, folks are talking about their favourite cover songs, and here I was about to blog about one of my favourite albums of all time &#8211; coincidentally a cover album &#8211; For the Masses, which is a tribute album to Depeche Mode. Four of my all time favourite covers are on this album; Never [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}