Scrubbles goes through his iTunes library looking for “the indestructibles” – songs that have been done by at least three different artists and hold up enough that folks keep them around. Looking through my library, I find:
“Alone Again Or” (Love, The Damned, Calexico)
“As Tears Go By” (The Rolling Stones, Marianne Faithfull, Nancy Sinatra)
“Codeine” (Buffy Saint-Marie, Gram Parsons, The Barracudas, Spiritualized)
“Goldfinger” (Billy Strange, Shirley Bassey, Man… Or Astroman?)
“It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry” (Bob Dylan, Kooper/Bloomfield/Stills, Robyn Hitchcock)
“Misirlou” (The Cardinals, Freddy Martin, Harold Grant, John “Bucky” Wilkins, Woody Herman, Dick Dale)
“More Than This” (Roxy Music, Robyn Hitchcock, 10,000 Maniacs)
“Ode To Billie Joe” (Bobbie Gentry, Lee Hazlewood, Popdefect)
“When The Levee Breaks” (Memphis Minnie, Led Zeppelin, Kristin Hersh)
I have 8 versions of Kick Out the Jams in my library. Oddly enough, the only Ode to Billie Joe I have is by Sinead O’Conner, off the Warchild Benefit from the mid 90’s. It’s great though.
ckb, don’t forget about the quicksilver messenger service version of “codeine”!
I have 8 versions of Kick Out the Jams in my library.
MC5, Primal Scream, Henry Rollins/Bad Brains, Guitar Wolf, Blue Oyster Cult, and who else?
ckb, don’t forget about the quicksilver messenger service version of “codeineâ€!
I didn’t forget – I just don’t have it in my iTunes library at the moment (or the versions done by The Litter, Man, Look Blue Go Purple, or the Wizards From Kansas
and who else?
Rage Against the Machine (studio & live) from their covers album, Presidents of the United States of America, and some failed O.C. punk band that had a cover of it on their E.P. from the mid 1990s.