Tune du Jour: “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” – Bob Dylan
Cover Song Competition: Echo & The Bunnymen vs. Kelly Hogan
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Hey! Mr Broccoli Man, play a song for me …
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In deference to the recent anniversary of the 9-11 tragedy I chose the greatest song John Lennon ever penned to launch Cover Me Impressed. Needless to say it is beyond disheartening
The Original
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Bob Dylan:
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The Cover Songs Competition
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Echo & The Bunnymen vs. Kelly Hogan
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Echo & The Bunnymen:
Kelly Hogan:
Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. Only one cover tune will live to play another day and it is your solemn responsibility to decide which one prevails. So tell me … Which Side Are You On?!!?
Also, keep in mind that if you should spontaneously self-actualize while playing a cover then you could – and probably should – nominate it for Top 10 (i.e. “Impeccable”) consideration.
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Neither version moved me tremendously. But Echo is a long-time sentimental favorite. So I’m going with them
Allow me to “Echo” Cuspid’s sentiments. (Shoot me for that one.)
chose the U-2’esqe guitar in Echo’s version over the strings in Kelly’s, plus like Cuspid a sentimental fave…
Well I never fully “got” Echo & The Bunnyboys and have long considered Kelly Hogan to be a Goddess who graciously lavishes us with ethereal euphony. Her voice makes my heart go a pitter-patter and catapults me a-swooning to heights only Icarus could conceive. Yet, I’m inconsolably chapfallen in this piece. Kelly Hogan and It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue should have been manna from the heavens. Instead, it only serves to remind us just how cruel the Gods (and obviously Goddesses as well) can be!
Begrudgingly, Echo …