Confessions of a Fanboy

James Tayloris set to release an album of covers — cleverly named Covers — through Starbucks’ Hear Music label on September 30.
I’m kind of curious about this set.  I’ve never been a James Taylor guy in the past.  Don’t misunderstand me:  I think the man is incredibly talented.  He has a smooth voice, an inimitable [...]

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I mentioned earlier this month I bought a copy of NIN’s The Downward Spiral, thinking I’d give it another chance in light of how I’ve come to like some the more recent work Reznor has been doing. In addition to wondering how I might gauge TDS in comparison to Ghosts and The Slip, I [...]

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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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