Cover me

Trolling the blogosphere again and came across The Center of New Jersey Life, by Sharon GR (who also posts to Blanton and Ashton’s). Interesting item on cover songs, so I thought I’d offer a brief list — not exhaustive and definitely not in any particular order:

• R.E.M. doing three Velvet Underground covers — “There She Goes Again,” “Pale Blue Eyes” and “Femme Fatale” and their cover of Aerosmith’s “Toys in the Attic”
• The Inmates covering “Dirty Water”
• Bob Dylan’s first album
• The Beatles’ versions of “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Long Tall Sally” and “Dizzy Miss Lizzie”
• The Rolling Stones’ “(Just My) Imagination” and “I Wanna Be Your Man”
• Fountains of Wayne, doing, yes, “…Baby One More Time”
• and Cake doing “Perhaps.”

That’s a start, anyway. Anyone care to chime in?

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet