Confessions of a Fanboy

This is a funny little cover from the Working Class Hero tribute album of a few years ago, not to be confused by the atrocity committed by Green Day. For starters, it’s about as poorly produced a track as you’re likely to hear. I hope they didn’t actually pay Rubin for whatever it [...]

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“Imagine” is John Lennon’s dream of peace, and universal love. It is one of the most famous songs in all the world and the audacity of the hope for a better world is inspiring, regardless of one’s personal, political, or spiritual perspective.
When A Perfect Circle are done with it, this song of peace and [...]

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If asked to pick a favorite song by Bob Dylan, “Every Grain of Sand” would probably be it.
The elegiac masterpiece is profoundly moving, and I find myself feeling protective of it. This song ministers to me. Anyone daring enough to cover “Every Grain of Sand” does so at the risk of [...]

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One of the real highlights of the self-titled release from Chappaquiddick Skyline is the cover of New Order’s “Leave Me Alone.”
It is an amazing thing to take a song, change very little from the original version, and still have it somehow sound perfectly at home among a collection of original tunes. I [...]

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Vivian Campbell said Def Leppard was not a very good cover band when he auditioned to replace guitarist Steve Clark. That was one of the first thoughts that went through my head as I plunked down my money to buy the band’s covers album, Yeah!

What is immediately obvious about DL’s cover is Joe Elliott’s [...]

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