What's the Connection? : Facsimile

This pick was fun to make and there are a hundred other songs I could have included (tell me your favorites that I missed).Tried to get a secondary theme, but I couldn't hold it. I added a country cover. Ooops. I added an INXS cover. Ooops. Nothing worked out the way I planned it. But either way it turned out well. I think if I had my albums laid out better, I might have found a bunch more. This is what I found/remembered. I didn't want to just call it a Rock covers compilation, although it kind of is. I called it a Facsimile, but I was thinking more of a copy of a copy, like the movie Multiplicity (which is why I used a still from that movie in the cover.) These covers are all good, but very different from the originals. And like the movie there is at least one that is kinda retarded (and by that I mean that I would listen to the original all day before putting this one on), but most are quite good.

Facsimile

01 The Neville Brothers - Fly Like An Eagle

02 Jr. Walker & The All Stars - These Eyes

03 Theodore - Rockin Me

04 Johnny Mathis - Evil Ways

05 Paris Hilton - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy

06 Wilson Pickett - Hey Joe

07 Señor Coconut - Smoke On The Water

08 Robots With Rayguns featuring Carl Gershon - Need U Tonight

09 Bananarama - Long Train Running

10 Figures On A Beach - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

11 Isaac Hayes & Millie Jackson - Feels Like The First Time

12 Speaker Junk - Foxxy (Original Mix)

13 Dan Hartman - Free Ride

14 Heaven 17 - Don't Fear The Reaper

15 Soul Hooligan With Diana King - Evil Woman

16 Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Fire

17 Shiny Toy Guns - Burning For You

18 Kim Wilde - Born To Be Wild (Radio Mix)

19 Big & Rich - You Shook Me All Night Long

2 comments:

RichardOctober 11, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Wow, man, the world of covers is unworldly large. You could take a cover from each year (let's say from 1956) and just make a gorgeous chrono-train through pop music. What to choose from each year? Can I tease you and say go for it, big man, go for it, and make a cd worth every month for every year, starting with 1956. Plenty of nice beautiful and exiting covers. Start with Elvis, Blue Suede Shoes. Take Janis's Piece of my Heart, Jimi's All along the watchtower. Otis's Satisfaction, or Aretha's reworkings.The Residents making their weird versions, and now here are hordes of singers doing it Under a Cover.Susanna Hoffs.
PunkThe Dickies- Banana Splits, Reggae Peter Tosh - Johnny B Goode. Vengaboys - Going to Ibiza.The Tourists (with Annie Lennox) Only want to be with you