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I have a dollar-sale copy of Carmen McRae's Can't Hide Love LP. Despite the trashing it took from the allmusic dot com guy, I've gotten pretty fond of it. Sometimes the Seventies Lite Funk arrangements get in the way, but not too often. Along with a cheerful, not-too-dated James Taylor cover (below), there's also her striking version of Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed." Eric Carmen's "All By Myself" isn't as good, but it's not unbearable, either.

Weird coincidence: on another board, someone just shared another nice Taylor cover with me. Check it out:

A guilty pleasure, for sure, but I always have as much fun listening to this as Carrie seems to have had performing it. One of my personal Top 10 A.I. moments.

More Carrie.

By all rights, as a card-carrying hair-metal fan, I should hate this. But Carrie just KILLS it.

IMHO.

And much as I still enjoy a lot of the old Crue rockers, Vince Neil had a totally wrong voice for ballads.

An awesome feelgood 'cover' of Bohemian Rhapsody performed by ~65,000 people. It's great watching the crowd go nuts and start jumping around at the 4 minute mark.

Okay, so in the past, every time I've posted a full-album YouTube video link, said video gets quickly taken down. But finally, I figured that life is short, so let's enjoy this together while we can:


Deadicated: A Tribute to the Grateful Dead

Now, I am not a "Deadhead" by any stretch, but my appreciation for them has grown considerably since that time I snarkily mentioned a Dead parody sketch on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (prompting Cleome to reply that a Deadhead acquaintance of hers loved that sketch, which balanced things out.)

And having said THAT, the Dead are one of those acts whose songs I like better when interpreted by others. What sweetens the deal for me is that Suzanne Vega, one of my favorite artists of all time, gets TWO tracks on the album -- "China Doll" and "Cassidy" (interestingly, a couple years after recording the latter song about a newborn baby girl, Vega herself became the mother of a baby girl.)

Other personal favorites include Los Lobos' album-opening "Bertha," Indigo Girls' "Uncle John's Band," Dr. John's "Deal," and Warren Zevon's "Casey Jones" (yup, the one with the "drivin' that train, high on cocaine" lyric.) And, really, there's only a couple of tracks on the whole album that I dislike -- I'll leave up to you all to figure out which ones. You know me well enough by now.

YouTube didn't provide a full track listing, but Wikipedia does:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadicated:_A_Tribute_to_the_Grateful_Dead#Track_listing

ooh I didn't know we had a thread for amazing covers! I am too lazy to go through 21 pages to see if this has already been posted, but in honor of the best episode of Stranger Things s4 I am going to throw this one into the ring!

Placebo - Running Up That Hill