Shawn Colvin's cover of "Every Little Thing" (the Police song) remains a gold standard of futile pandering to radio tastemakers, even after all these years. Debbi Boone in her heyday only dreamed of reaching such transcendent levels of White-lady blandness.
And don't get me started on Tori Amos. [rolleyes]
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Shawn Colvin's cover of "Every Little Thing" (the Police song) remains a gold standard of futile pandering to radio tastemakers, even after all these years. Debbi Boone in her heyday only dreamed of reaching such transcendent levels of White-lady blandness.
I once wrote a toilet-humor parody of Colvin's hit "Sunny Came Home" called "Smelly Made Poop."
Thought you might find that particularly amusing, Cleome.
I don't even think it's a terrible song. Not Best Ever, but not bad. There are so many songs on that same disc where she sounds like she's trying to out-nasal Tom Petty, though.
It did have that neat looking George Tooker-eque art on the cover, at least.
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Funny, how the most recent post on THIS thread was in the Spring of *this* year, while the GOOD covers thread petered out EIGHT years earlier... so NEGATIVE, Legion Worlders! *tsk*
Funny, how the most recent post on THIS thread was in the Spring of *this* year, while the GOOD covers thread petered out EIGHT years earlier... so NEGATIVE, Legion Worlders! *tsk*
Ms. Cleo- As a longtime Police fan, I was *HORRIFIED* by the Colvin Every Little Thing "cover"!
To be honest, I'd rather hear full-blown butchery of a good song than something that half-baked/timid. As a licensed jazz snob, I just don't see the point of recording a cover song if you're not gonna' take some interesting liberties with it.
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