The B-Daddy Channel - Covers Edition

My nephew, Kevin, is a talented young musician. He will be playing guitar in a production of Tommy by The Who. We were discussing Pinball Wizard, and decided that deciding between The Who and Elton John for best rendition was the most difficult covers question we had ever heard. So I leave it to the readers to decide.

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This may be a repeat but I wanted to go with a covers edition, following Dean's lead.

The original:




The cover:



Let me know what you think.

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Happy Easter this weekend, here is some music to celebrate with.

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This week were going with obscure eurotrash lounge music from the 60s and 70s. Why? Because we can. Here is Jacques Dutronc performing his hit Le Responsable.




There is another great version here, with live dancing, but can't be embedded.

And some more French pop, just because:

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Over at The Liberator Today I commented on The Big Chill and the transition of the Baby Boomers from college protesters to capitalist consumers of the finer material things our society has to offer. Today's video has some of those elements. Bowie who wrote and performed the song that created the Major Tom character, was and still is popular among the hipsters. But the Shiny Toy Guns have breathed new life into this classic, even as it used to hawk Cadillacs, which the boomers parents were enamored of, but the boomers not so much. I am including the original version by Peter Schilling because we love to compare the covers.

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Went with what I consider romantic music at TLT for the weekend's music here is some more.





A little more on the memories that go with the second video are discussed at Avocado Memories.

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It's covers weekend, taking Dean's lead. I am going with 60s covers this weekend:

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At TLT the weekend's music came from Iggy Pop, because I had tripped across him looking at my glam play-list. Over at BWD, Dean is doing a poll on cover vs. original, so I thought I would do the same. I am posting Iggy Pop's The Passenger again, along with Siouxsie and the Banshees 1980s cover. I will put up a poll at right.

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Road Dawg urged me to revive this blog, so I have. Plus it gives me a chance to post more music. Doing 90s grunge at TLT, so wanted to continue a little in that vain.

Greenday may not be "officially" grunge, but I associate them temporally with that era.

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This weekend's theme is country music by artists not considered country. See the TLT for the post that kicked off this discussion. Here is Norah Jones' tribute to Johnny Cash. I know it's sacrilege to so state, but not sure if June Carter could have performed this any better. Pops, I await your commentary.

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We've got a Joshua Tree theme going for the weekend. Hope you enjoy U2 and the scenery.



Here is the full version of the song since the above version was cut off.

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This weekend's music on both blogs is from the "Achtung Baby" album by U2. This was my favorite tune from that album.

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We are featuring Nina Simone this weekend on both blogs. Here is another classic from a very talented black female vocalist, Feeling Good.

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This weekend I am playing some updates on traditional gospel songs. At the TLT we have Bruce Springsteen putting a jazz spin on "Mary Don't You Weep." Here are the Beach Boys and their incredible vocal ensemble performing "Michael Row the Boat Ashore."

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Halloween this weekend, so I am reprising one of my favorite bands from the 90's, Concrete Blonde, with some spooky music.

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We're going with some classic rock and classic music video this weekend on my blogs. Here is one of the all time great 80s music videos.

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I'm going with Joan Baez for this weekend's music. Here is a favorite tune of mine that Joan sings well. I wish she would have put her considerable vocal talents to the different song but same tune sung by Mahalia Jackson.

The B-Daddy Channel - Special Edition Collingwood vs. St. Kilda

Collingwood plays St. Kilda today (Saturday in Australia) for the Premiership at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds. Lacking ESPN3, I can't watch the game live today, but wanted to sing the club song to root on our team.




As a reminder and encouragement I am posting the highlights of arguably the most important Collingwood win of the season, against last year's champion Geelong that sealed their top seeding.

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We're going with Surf music this weekend to celebrate the end of summer. Here are Los Straitjackets performing one of my favorite surf songs, Pacifica.

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Mrs. Daddy told me that Glenn Beck said that he wanted to get a military fly-over for the rally on 8/28, but he was denied permission. Apocryphal? Perhaps, but it looks like Somebody approved some kind of request regardless.