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 Date: Saturday, November 25, 2006 9:25 pm Subject: Re: Pop Garden Radio covers special To: audities@smoe.org > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "AssociationWorks" > > >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 >