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| From | aawgoon@cfl.rr.com |
| Subject | Re: Pop Garden Radio covers special |
| Date | Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:26:43 -0500 |
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A giant thank you to everyone who offered some suggestions. I was able
to come up with a fair amount of what everyone suggested.
-Adam Waltemire
www.popgardenradio.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net>
Date: Saturday, November 25, 2006 9:25 pm
Subject: Re: Pop Garden Radio covers special
To: audities@smoe.org
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "AssociationWorks" <AssociationWorks@comcast.net>
>
> >One of my fave covers has always been Siouxsie & The Banshees'
> >version of "Dear Prudence" I like it better than the original!
>
> I may actually agree with this. The original has always seemed
> oddly
> halfhearted somehow, and the Banshees version conjure up a more
> interesting atmosphere.
>
> >As for bad covers...
> >Just about anything on Nouvelle Vague's "Band Apart"
> >pretty much sucks ass. I mean...do we really need Bossa Nova
> >versions of great post punk classics?
>
> Yes, we did, but the group's self-titled first album did all the
> ones
> we needed, so this one is entirely unnecessary, and also larded
> with
> obvious jokes that devalue the concept.
>
> S
>
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