Am I Blog Enough For You?

Japanned In Japan is staying in Elysium for a few days, so we had the chance to work on the Am I Blog Enough For You? Cover CD set (one of good covers, one of other than good covers). We also made lists of other songs.

All of the songs involved are from my mp3 collection, which are mostly ripped from my personal CD collection. After much listening we cobbled these lists together:

Good Cover CD:

1. Pleasant Valley Sunday – The Wedding Present
2. Satisfaction – Devo
3. Candy Man – Cibo Matto
4. Estare Prendido En Tus Dedos (Wrapped Around Your Finger)- Skank
5. Pictures Of Matchstick Men – Camper Van Beethoven
6. Come Together Promo #2 – Ike and Tina Turner
7. Solitary Man – Chris Isaak
8. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps – Cake
9. Iron Man – The Cardigans
10. Yakety Yak – Desmond Decker
11. Time – Easy Dub All Stars featuring Corey Harris and Ranking Joe
12. Nobody Does It Better – Radiohead
13. Victoria – The Fall
14. Sweetest Tabou – Les Nubians
15. Mrs. Robinson – The Lemonheads
16. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood – Elvis Costello
17. The Beat Goes On – All Seeing I
18. St. James Infirmary – Marc Ribot
19. Be Thankful For What You Got – Massive Attack
20. Hava Nagila – Dick Dale
21. Once I Had A Love (Heart Of Glass demo) – Blondie
22. Anna – The Beatles

Other Than Good Cover CD:

Mind Games – George Clinton
Fire – Dennis DeYoung
Bennie and the Jets – Beastie Boys
All By Myself – Babes In Toyland
Tutti Frutti – Trio
I Think We’re Alone Now – Tiffany
Video Killed The Radio Star – Presidents Of The United States Of America
Theme From Shaft – The Wedding Present
Light My Fire – Massive Attack
Boyz In The Hood – ?
American Woman – Lenny Kravitz
Satisfaction – Otis Redding
Step Right Up – Violent Femmes
Let’s Get It On – Jack Black
Whiter Shade Of Pale – Annie Lennox
Knocking On Heaven’s Door – Eric Clapton
Cinnamon Girl – The Gentrys
Norweigan Wood – P.M. Dawn
Imagine – Mars and ?
Never Never Land – Phoebe Snow

The list of songs is very close to its final ordered state, but we need to decide the order for the other than good covers. It’s harder than it might seem.

Here is the list that we were pulling from:

Tributes/Albums of Covers:
Annie Lennox – Medusa
Tribute to John Lennon – Working Class Hero
Tribute to Tom Waits – Step Right Up
Dub Side Of The Moon
Tribute to The Police – Outlandos D’Americos

Beatles songs:
Jealous Guy – Guv’nor
++Elanor Rigby – Ray Charles
Come Together – Ike and Tina
-I Saw Him Standing There – Tiffany
-Norweigan Wood – P.M. Dawn
Day Tripper – Otis Redding
Happiness Is A Warm Gun – Marc Ribot
Imagine – Blues Travellers
Tomorrow Never Knows – Phil Collins
Day In The Life – The Fall

Rockabilly:
-Don’t Be Cruel – Cheap Trick
Matchbox – Jerry Lee Lewis
What’d I Say – Jerry Lee Lewis
-Tutti Frutti – Trio

Trad./Showtune
Hava Nagilia – Dick Dale
++St. James Infirmary – Marc Ribot
Who’s Sorry Now – Esquivel

R&B/Motown
Groovin’ – Aretha Franklin
++Killing Me Softly – Fugees
Tainted Love – Gloria Jones
Just My Imagination – Rolling Stones
++Anna – Beatles
++Love Train – Bunny Sigler
+Think – James Brown
-Lean On Me – Depeche Mode
Be Thankful For What You Got – Massive Attack
What’d I Say – Jerry Lee Lewis
Tramp – Otis and Carla

Ironic
+Baker Street – Foo Fighters
++I Will Survive – Cake
++Beat Goes On – All Seeing I
Iron Man – The Cardigans
-Let’s Get It On – Jack Black
Video Killed The Radio Star – Presidents of USA
+Candy Man – Cibo Matto
+Mrs. Robinson – The Lemonheads
++Pleasant Valley Sunday — ?
-Benny and the Jets – Beastie Boys
-All By Myself – Babes In Toyland
We Are Family – Babes In Toyland
Dynamite Hack – Boyz In The Hood
+Satisfaction – Devo
Flying Lizards – Money
More Than This – Bill Murray (Lost In Translation Soundtrack)

Tribute/Earnest
+Where Did You Sleep Last Night – Nirvana
+Death Letter – White Stripes
–All Apologies – Sinead O’Connor
–A Whiter Shade Of Pale – Annie Lennox
-Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – Eric Clapton
+Voodoo Chile – SRV
Higher Ground – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Fire – Red Hot Chili Peppers
+No Woman No Cry – Fugees
Love Will Tear Us Apart – The Swans
Hey Joe – Nick Cave

Unintentionally Good
++Solitary Man – Chris Isaak
++Sweetest Taboo – Les Nubians
++Heart of Glass demo – Blondie
+++Walk This Way – Run D.M.C.
+++It’s All Over Now Baby Blue – Them
++Victoria – The Fall
+Yakety Yak – Desmond Dekker
+Pictures of Matchstick Men – Camper Van Beethoven
Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You – Lauryn Hill
Tired Of Waiting For You – Green Day
Nobody Does It Better – Radiohead

Unintentionally Bad
–Rockers Hi-Fi Meets Ella Fitzgerald – Sunshine Of Your Love
-Step Right Up – Violent Femmes
–Light My Fire – Massive Attack
–Cinnamon Girl – The Gentries
-Satisfaction – Otis Redding
Theme From Shaft – The Wedding Present
Fever – Brian Eno

Covers are more or equally famous:
Take Me To The River – Talking Heads
Stop Your Sobbing – The Pretenders
Our Lips Are Sealed – The Go Gos
-American Woman – Lenny Kravitz
+Let’s Spend The Night Together – David Bowie
Mystery Train – Elvis Presley

Don’t know originals:
River Deep Mountain High – Erasure
Anytime – Duane Eddy
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps – Cake

To check out at a future date:
Can’t Find My Way Home – The Swans

While flipping through these songs, we came up with other, related lists that we’re not sure what to do with.

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New Lists
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Songs ready for a cover version:
1. Sky Pilot
2. In The Year 2525
3. Aqualung
4. Never Say Never

Songs whose originals sound like covers:
1. Take Me To The River – Al Green
2. Tramp – ?
3. In The Pines – LeadBelly
4. Respect – Otis Redding
5. Anna – Arthur Alexander
6. Dedicated To The One I Love – “5″ Royales
7. Think – “5″ Royales
8. Hard To Handle – Otis Redding
9. Travelling Riverside Blues – Robert Johnson
10. Sing Sing Sing – Louis Prima
11. Man Who Sold The World – David Bowie

Stag O Lee songs:
1. Stagger Lee – Nick Cave
2. Stagolee – Mississippi John Hurt (Rediscovered)
3. Stagolee – Mississippi John Hurt (Best Of)
4. Wrong Em Boyo – The Clash