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| | Cover version -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
 | | Pop musicians may play covers as a tribute to the original performer or group, to win audiences who like to hear a familiar song, to increase their chance of success by using a proven hit or to gain credibility by its comparison with the original song. | | | An extreme example of punk cover versions is the punk band (Click link for more info and facts about GABBA) GABBA, who mix the songs of (Click link for more info and facts about ABBA) ABBA and (Click link for more info and facts about The Ramones) The Ramones. | | | The actual term "cover" may have its origins in the fact that the artist who recorded the newer version of the song would have his records literally "cover" the original version... |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/c/co/cover_version.htm
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| | Telegraph Arts They did it their way |
| | Little wonder, then, that they should cover a Beatles song from the White Album, or that it should become their biggest hit. | | | John Coltrane got hold of this hit song, though, and by adding subtly oriental harmonies and choosing the soprano saxophone as the melody instrument, he was able to create a contemporary jazz masterpiece. | | | This was one of his examples of 20th-century songwriting, and in his hands – acoustic guitar, percussion, lots of echo on the voice – Britney's song actually becomes quite scary. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/11/20/bmcovercont20.xml&sSheet=/arts/2004/11/20/ixtop.html
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| | Epinions.com - Close Cover Before Striking - 10 Cover songs worth hearing |
| | Generally, a cover song is performed by a younger artist or band playing an older song that influenced them or has some other significance to them. | | | George Harrison's original version of this song was the epitome of subtle, underhanded musicianship with its light, folksy guitar work. | | | Whether you like the original version or not, cover songs like this are worth a listen, simply because they're so different and unusual. |
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http://www.epinions.com/content_2986385540
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| | Second Hand Songs - Home |
| | Find out who performed the original version of a particular song, or who covered that song. | | | Unlike many related sites, we try to be as complete as possible (not just performer and song title, but also songwriters and original media) and order the data in a reusable and maintainable way. | | | The database already contains 33621 songs (9500 originals, 22924 cover songs and 1197 songs with samples) |
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http://www.secondhandsongs.com
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| | ABBA tributes, cover songs, and cover bands |
| | Arrival is the Swedish version of the ABBA cover band, and this album was produced by ABBA bassist, Rutger Gunnarson. | | | Almost all of the songs on ABBA GOLD were used in the musical. | | | The songs used in the musical were mostly drawn from ABBA singles. |
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http://felpin80.tripod.com/ata/tribute.html
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| | Rocksnobs: Cover Songs |
| | When I was a kid, cover songs introduced me to songs that I didn't know and then I went on to discover the original versions. | | | Now that I'm thirty, current groups are covering songs of my youth and annoying me. I just need to remember the fact that the kids today will enjoy the same benefits of cover songs that I did and learn to turn off the unfortunate modern versions if they suck. | | | Poison recorded that song for the Less Than Zero soundtrack and it is true to the original. |
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http://www.rocksnobs.com/2005_06_13_cover.html
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| | Steel White Table - Cover Songs |
| | We’re building a database of cover songs (songs performed by an artist other than the original performer) with the intention of creating cover “chains.” A cover chain is a set of songs in which each song is a cover of a song by the band who covered the preceding song. | | | The longest cover chain that we know about at this time is 190 songs long | | | Most Covered Song: Who Do You Love (covered 171 times) |
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http://steelwhitetable.org/jody/archives/2004/07/06/cover-songs
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| | Dirac Angestun Gesept: Cover Songs: Some Thoughts |
| | The cover songs in my collection come from sources all over the place: movie soundtracks, tribute albums (including tributes to specific albums), cover albums, novelty albums, single-track purchases from the iTunes Music Store, and other places. | | | Telegraph has their list of the 50 best cover songs. | | | In many cases, there isn't a recorded "original" for them to be a cover of; there also tend to be many more versions of a given song, since it seems like everyone wants to have a Christmas album. |
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http://blogs.ckdhr.com/dag/archives/000155.html
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| | Amazon.com: Songs About Jane: Music |
| | In English: There are alot of good songs on this cd, and 4 hit singles but, the rest of the tracks on the cd aren't very differnt from the hits. | | | These songs have cool guitar riffs that they use alot through both songs. | | | SONGS ABOUT JANE is sure to become a classic pop/rock album.Released way back in the summer of 2002 its about time fans and radio stations alike have finally taken notice to this great album. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006879E?v=glance
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| | Demeri Followed - Biography |
| | Matthew and Jack went back to playing their favorite cover songs in the hope that it would spark a gift. | | | As a duo "band", Matthew and Aaron spent their evenings recording, the best of which were the spontaneous songs. | | | Time went on, and they became discontent with only playing music that other people wrote, so to help them be more original and expressive, they began creating some of their own musical content. |
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http://www.demerifollowed.com/biogr.html
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| | Dirac Angestun Gesept: Cover Songs: My "Top 10" list |
| | One of my favorite REM songs, done acoustically by one of my favorite bands; of course it's my number one cover. | | | The combination of the acoustic melody track and the interweaving of the two vocals makes the song much more poignant than the Stewart version or the peppy-poppy Smyth. | | | This was long one of my favorite songs in its original incarnation; when Annie Lennox recorded it, that gave me a second favorite version. |
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http://blogs.ckdhr.com/dag/archives/000156.html
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| | Metallica Cover Songs |
| | Metallica were asked to appear on the Ramones tribute album this was one of the six songs that Metallica originally chose and was their final choice for the album. | | | Metallica were asked to appear on the Ramones tribute album this was one of the six songs that Metallica originally chose. |
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http://www.metallicaworld.co.uk/covers.htm
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| | A Small Victory: great cover songs that weren't |
| | They cover tracks from Abba to Jethro Tull. | | | As you know, I am obsessed with cover songs and nothing makes a cover better than a band remaking a tune that is completely out of character for their genre of music, and then making it their own. | | | The best cover songs - the imaginary version of Quiet Riot's Mickey notwithstanding - are the ones where the tune is almost unrecongnizable, where the newer artist has taken the song and interpreted it their own way, rather than just making a carbon copy of the original artist's tune. |
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http://asmallvictory.net/archives/003922.html
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| | CatStevens.Com - The Cat Stevens World Wide Web Site |
| | These songs are in the Real Audio format. | | | The songs of Cat Stevens are as varied as they are wonderful. | | | Older tracks were encoded for compatibility with the 5.0 player, newer songs require G2 and are of much higher quality. |
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http://catstevens.com/features/covers
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| | Amazon.com: The Bobs Cover the Songs of...: Music |
| | This is the Bobs' second album of cover songs, done in their inimitable a capella style. | | | The result is predictable to all who know the Bobs well from their previous cover album and from their live shows: light-hearted interpretations, musically interesting but at times sparse and hardly complex. | | | It's a country song where the singer begs his slob of an ex-girlfriend to come back home. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000003L5?v=glance
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| | Offspring Cover Songs |
| | This sections is for songs that Offspring covered from other bands. | | | Only certain riffs of these songs were performed at certain concerts. | | | Click on the song name to hear the orignal version. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/pa3/theoffspring/coversongs.html
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| | Eighties Cover Songs |
| | I have no problem with artists who do a cover of a song in concert, or because they are just starting out and don't have enough original material of their own for a full set of songs. | | | A lot of early rock songs were covers of old R&B tunes. | | | We only list songs that are originally from the eighties and are now being made into covers. |
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http://www.inthe80s.com/covers/index.shtml
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| | Epinions.com - The Greatest Cover Songs of All Time |
| | Fans of my writing have already heard me blather on about the genius of this song and the eponymous album. | | | But with his plaintive voice and gently insistent guitar strumming, James Taylor made this song seem so immediate and relevant I felt I was hearing it for the first time. | | | Which is why cover songs thrill me so. |
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http://www.epinions.com/musc-review-72AF-7EB5B74-3A10CAB5-prod4
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| | WABC Musicradio "Music" |
| | It includes the ranking of the songs according to the voting and also the year the song was a hit. | | | First, there is the ranking of the songs and, of course, the titles and artists of the most popular songs of this era. | | | By weighting each song according to its rank in the weekly surveys he was then able to come up with a point system for ranking the songs for the year. |
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http://musicradio.computer.net/music.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: 31 Songs |
| | He makes some useful distinctions--these are not songs he loves for their associations so much as particular songs through which he learned more about his capacity for loving songs in general. | | | The songs selected are not well known - except a couple - and they do not represent songs that remind the author of particular incidents in his life. | | | There is nothing quite so incomprehensible as love: 31 Songs is Nick Hornby's account of a selection of the music that lives deep in his heart and it is beside the point that most of us would make radically different selections. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670914266
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| | CD Baby Digital Distribution |
| | If you record a cover version of a song, (meaning your performance of a song that has been released in the U.S. with consent of the copyright owner), you are entitled by law to release your recording commercially, and the owner of the copyright to the song cannot prevent you from doing so. | | | Keep in mind that the owner of these rights is typically a publisher, and that the owner of the rights in the song is not the same as the owner of the rights to any particular recording of the song. | | | If you wish to distribute physical copies (e.g., CDs) of a cover song, you must obtain a similar compulsory license, available for most popular songs through the Harry Fox Agency at harryfox.com. |
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http://www.cdbaby.net/dd?f=8
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia with CD (Audio) |
| | Song concepts, the known musicians, and what instruments they played, studio recording dates, background voices, sound effects and the history of the song in live performance are some of the many details offered by the reference encyclopedia. | | | I also learned what was on the album cover and what the cover and the title of the album represented. | | | There was a discography listing US and UK releases of this album as well a list of the dates the band recorded the album. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1894959248
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| | Cover songs that sound exactly like the original |
| | Mario Wynans song I dont wanna know is actually a rip from a song Enya released in the mid-90's. | | | I think that Mario Winans song comes to mind (taking the Fugees beat), along with that Ashanti song where she jacked one of Biggie's beats. | | | My girlfriend asked how the song went, and I made a joke about how interchangable 80s girl rock pop songs are by singing vacation insteaf of our lips are sealed. |
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http://www.byroncrawford.com/2004/06/cover_songs_tha.html
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| | The Republic of T. » Blog Archive » Cover Me |
| | A cover of a Stevie wonder song and one of the few where the cover might (I said might) be better than the origional. | | | A cover of a John Fogerty (CCR) song. | | | That is, songs that were originally recorded by one artist, and then re-recorded by another. |
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http://www.republicoft.com/index.php/archives/2005/02/15/cover-me
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| | Songs Covered By Deep Purple |
| | The intro to this song was often a tune-up time for Ritchie Blackmore after the abuse suffered by his guitar during the marathon work-out of Space Truckin'. | | | They covered 3 songs on the next album and only 2 on their 3rd (confusingly entitled "Deep Purple"). | | | A song written by Donovan Leitch and released by him (as Donovan) as a single in October 1968 and reached US #33. |
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http://www.thehighwaystar.com/rosas/discog/dpcovered.html
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| | Acoustic Guitar Music CD (INTERPRETATIONS - Live Recordings of Cover Songs for Acoustic Guitar and Voice) |
| | All songs were recorded live in my bedroom/office, with three microphones running simultaneously: Two Rode NT-2s (acoustic guitar) and a Shure KSM-32 (vocals). | | | What you hear on this recording is 10 songs I recorded at the tail end of this period, all of which were written by artists who thrived in the 1960s and 1970s. | | | Let’s record a song someone else wrote, that’s already great to begin with, but let’s do it with [insert ‘modern production approach’ here] to ‘update’ it so we can cash in!” It really bugged me when I heard cover songs that were essentially rehashes of the original. |
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http://www.intimateaudio.com/interpretations.html
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| | 100 Greatest Cover Songs / Remakes |
| | The Cover Songs below are in alphabetical order and should be used as a reference for the list above of the 'Top 10 Best Cover Songs'. | | | So give me your opinions of what cover songs were done much better than the original version. | | | The '10 Worst Cover Songs' are remakes done much worse than the original. |
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http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_coversongs.html
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| | METALLICA - Encyclopedia Metallica - Cover tunes |
| | Metallica recorded their first cover version way back in 83 at their first recording session for the Hit the lights demo. | | | The first years they almost played 50% cover songs on their shows, and today they still perform two or tree at gigs. | | | The song that they start into right before "King Nothing" on the "Mama Said" single is "It Ain't Like That" by from Facelift. |
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http://www.encycmet.com/cover
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| | dmusic.com - Cover Songs |
| | SONGS (not albums)" - and got this: http://cdbaby.org/stories/05/05/14/8975448.html | | | The artists who have a cover song on their | | | A lot of old pop is really bad, its only the sheer volume of songs produced from 1950 to 1980 and re-released on CD,DVD,MINI DISK,MP3,etc that have made it appear otherwise. |
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http://news.dmusic.com/article/16885
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| | Blogcritics.org: No Cover — A Cynical Look at Christian Cover Songs |
| | Or Out of Your Mouth's cover of Music in which the lead singer expertly manages to make every single lyric in the song sound exactly the same as the next (not that the original song was that good anyway). | | | Their songs are perfect the way they are. | | | For one thing it totally missed the message behind the song, and it cut out the part of the song where it picks up (on the lyric "if i swallow anything evil...") and instead turned a fantastic song from one of the greatest bands in rock history into 3 minutes of wrist-slitting crap. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/06/07/214407.php
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| | Techdirt:Will It Be Illegal To Cover Songs? |
| | They're doing this because producers in India will apparently produce cover songs of popular albums, and then sell them at a discount - sometimes (illegally) underreporting units sold for the purpose of paying royalties back to the original artist. | | | As an example, look at the story of a bassist who decided to add bass lines to songs by the band the White Stripes. | | | I'd like to know what the rule should be about covering songs. |
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20030928/2332249_F.shtml
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| | Atrocious Cover Songs MetaFilter |
| | I think the worst cover of any good song is one that simply tries to replicate the original recording -- in terms of delivery, tempo, key, tone, etc. Both in the commercial pop world and the indie world, there are way too many of those to name. | | | The song they covered was CCR's Bad Moon Rising, and while this cover has fallen to the obscurity it deserves, it is truly the most awful thing ever. | | | As for Dylan songs, I always felt his songs were starter versions as sung by him, almost sure to be improved upon once covered. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/28071
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| | Cover songs |
| | I'm in the middle of a project of Kansas covers from their 1st 6 albums and its a bit of a bummer but I don't have any animosity toward Soundclick..its in the interest of the song writer that they are pursuing folks covering tunes. | | | All Forums >> [General] >> Songs >> Cover songs | | | Since I am not a pro musician, I have to make a judgement call if I want to invest in covers just for the fun of it. |
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http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=357497
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| | Neurotic Fishbowl: Burn It - The Spring 2004 Edition |
| | Update: if you don't have 80 minutes worth of cover songs, it's perfectly acceptable to fill up some of the space with the original version of the song and then the cover. | | | Any cover of any kind of song by any band works for this. | | | If you're looking for ideas of songs to use, tj pointed out The Covers Project which has a ton of information on covers. |
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| | Shinecat, cover songs |
| | There are lots of great songs that most bands don't do. | | | Here are some of the cover songs I've played. | | | assorted 70's ROCK, BLUES & R&B cover songs |
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http://www.angelfire.com/co/shinecat/covers.html
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| | Bush: bush cover songs |
| | Well, Sarah, those songs are not on any of their cds. | | | i was wondering if you could tell me if there is a site that offers downloads of bush songs they have covered, namely "wild horses" and "the one i love". | | | If you know a site, please get back to me. are these songs on any cds? |
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http://experts.about.com/q/407/462260.htm
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| | Cover songs - Anime Academy Lounge |
| | Woohoo) is a cover of a Pavement song entitled, "Spit on a Stranger". | | | David Bowie has an entire album covering his favorites songs of the late 60's/maybe early 70's I think. | | | Along with that, they've wrote a few songs of their own. |
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| | The Top-10 Best Punk Cover Songs |
| | If you've never listened to punk rock before, this is a good chance to start. | | | Be sure to visit our user-created Ultimate Punk Rock Cover Song Project | | | When you're done reading this, be sure to visit our user-created Ultimate Punk Rock Cover Song Project |
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http://www.savethehumans.com/culturebashing/editorial/punk_covers/index.shtml
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| | NPR : Cover Songs with a Kick |
| | All Things Considered, February 5, 2005 · Whenever a relatively new band covers a classic track, it does so at the risk of unfavorable comparison to the original. | | | But Los Angeles-based music supervisor and commentator Alexandra Patsavas relishes a good cover song -- especially when it's reworked by an artist who makes it undeniably his own. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4486723
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| | Cover Songs - EvBoard |
| | I'd like them to do a cover of the song Iris - Goo Goo Dolls. | | | I think they'd do an absolutely KICKASS cover of Fighter since that song is pretty hard anyway, considering it's Christina. | | | I would absolutely love that Velcra song even more if Amy would sing it.. |
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http://www.evboard.com/showthread.php?t=19610
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| | ToT tour cover songs |
| | I have every show they played a cover song at from the 2004 tour (even a few shows with Machine Messiah from the Yes tour). | | | But I don't have the ability to do single songs (unless you want to send me a blank CD-R for just a few tunes) as I have no way to host them. | | | I was lucky enough to see/hear DT do Mother, Father at the Warfield in SF and was wondering if anyone had their version to share. |
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http://www.mikeportnoy.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=778743
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| | COVER FIGHT! |
| | Song Fighters were invited to revisit a song they had created for Song Fight, making it better, or perhaps just different. | | | Welcome to Cover Fight, a periodic competition wherein people cover songs based on some kind of theme. | | | The most recent fight was titled "Cover Yourself". |
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http://coverfight.songfight.net
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| | Peter's New Model Army Cover Songs |
| | (Enter a song title at the Search Site to find the records where this song is published) | | | This is a list of cover songs done by New Model Army, Red Sky Coven, or Justin Sullivan I own: | | | THANK YOU (Dido (also featured on Eminem's song STAN)) |
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| | Getsigned.com Presents: "Cover Songs: Three Ways to Obtain Mechanical Licenses, for Legally Recording or ... |
| | Cover Songs: Three Ways to Obtain Mechanical Licenses, for Legally Recording or Distributing Cover Versions on CD by Dale Turner | | | Cover Songs: Three Ways to Obtain Mechanical Licenses, for Legally Recording or Distributing Cover Versions on CD | | | Getsigned.com Presents: "Cover Songs: Three Ways to Obtain Mechanical Licenses, for Legally Recording or Distributing Cover Versions on CD by Dale Turner" |
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| | Floater - Sun, Sky, Stone |
| | Here are all the songs we know of that Floater has covered at some time or another, either full versions, medleys, or as extensions of their regular songs: | | | Here are the titles of some new/unreleased songs Floater have been playing: | | | and it is definately geared toward the more hardcore of fans, who know obscure song facts & such. |
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| | Covers And Protectors - Cover Songs |
| | Features albums by other artists performing the songs and music of Bob Dylan. | | | Database of covered songs and artists, with a list of longest cover chains. | | | A double-cd of songs by The Church, performed by musicians from the HOTEL WOMB |
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| | Technorati Tag: coversongs |
| | They are some really good covers done by a band called Chance. | | | Some great cover songs by Chance free downl... | | | I have had these for a while and thought I’d share them. |
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http://technorati.com/tag/coversongs
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| | Fozzy |
| | Fozzy is a heavy metal band that play cover songs. | | | It is fronted by the WWF wrestler Chris Jericho (whose band persona is Mongoose McQueen). |
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| | New Songs and Cover Versions by Ryan Adams |
| | New Songs and Cover Versions by Ryan Adams | | | Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. | | | I'm Not Goin' to Make It Out of This One Alive |
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