This song is just fucking awesome. I will never forget the day I heard it for the first time.
By the Pixies off the album 'Doolittle' (1989).

This is not about musical talent. More just the funniest thing you might ever see.
Please enjoy

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This song was shown to me by a great friend. A warrior of mighty musical variations. I had heard of Rush before, but they were quite far down on my list of music to listen to. This song has made all excuses wasted, and should do for most people I hope. I absolutely love the Gary Numan- esque synth sound that they have going. This song is called Tom Sawyer off the 1981 album 'Moving Pictures'.

My best friend is coming back home for two weeks. This song is perfect for occasion and the weather. It's a simple song, off a beautiful album, mentioned before on CellarDoor. It's 'My Best Friend' by Jefferson Airplane off the album Surrealistic Pillow (1967)

nick cave always and forever

In 2007 Grinderman hit the world of Nick Cave fans with fists of poetic hysteria. I'm in that world, and loving every punch. Please close your eyes and open your ears. This is Heathen Child off the simply titled album Grinderman 2 (2010)

I am currently obsessed with the artist Link Wray. I always knew of the song 'Rumble' which is awesome, but now I'm getting into his other music. Wow!! I cannot get enough. I love the rough surfer sound, it's sheer musical wonderment! Anyway because I love dinosaurs so much, here is the song 'Dinosaur' off the album Jack The Ripper (1963).

Two posts ago, I mentioned songs that get covered by a bunch of different artists. I forgot to mention 'I Put A Spell On You' which is one of those amazing songs that you can never get sick of.

Screaming Jay Hawkings wrote the song in 1956, which I will add last, mainly for impact as it's the best version in my opinion.

Here is Nina Simone's very famous take. God what a voice.



This is Creedence



Nick Cave, does my favourite cover.



I grew up watching this movie over and over. This is just for fun from the movie Hocus Pocus, with Bette Midler singing.



Marilyn Manson's (urgh)



Many others have done covers including the very awesome Bees. Also the Animals, Jeff Beck, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Iggy Pop, Bonnie Tyler, Katie Melua (I'd rather have cat aids thank you- side for RSR) and many others.

But finally here is Screaming Jay Hawkins. I suggest watching to the end, it really is phenomenal what this man can do with his voice.

Here is the Editors. They are most osomo. Here is In This Light and on This Evening, off the 2009 album of the same name.

Transformation

This post is simply about a song that gets spread across so many different bands. Examples are Sweet Jane, Hallelujah, Like a Rolling Stone and so many other amazing songs that musicians can't help but make covers of. So I'm going to post every version of a song that I can think of. See if you think its too much, or an amazing transformation. The song is Have Love Will Travel, orginally written by Richard Berry in 1959.

Here's the original.



This is The Sonics version- and possibly the most famous cover.



Here's Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi's take on it.



The Black Keys, of course. I particularly like this version because it's so heavy on the bass.





Paul Revere and the Raiders did a cover too, but there's no YouTube clip, and I'm too lazy to look for another one, but it's pretty cool. Bruce Springsteen preformed it live a couple of times and according to Wikipedia, there are a bunch of other bands, one of which is a Japanese band called The Portugal Japan, I have never heard of them, but I intend to find out more. I am trying to slowly immerse myself in the world of Japanese rock.

Many of my friends feel that Genesis is not an easy band to listen to. They are completely right, you really have to have an emotional connection to them to withstand the scattered and maniacal perfection of their music. For me it lies in the album Selling England by the Pound (1973) and the song In The Cage off the double album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974). The song is about a man who falls asleep, a sleep so deep he's close to death. In this dream he is in a cage of stalactites and stalagmites. He calls for help from his dead brother who is beyond the cage. His brother wont help him as he is in a different world, finally he scatters himself into a million different pieces and flies from the cage and is dead. He can now join his brother. Well thats my interpretation. See what you think

This song, along with Human League's 'Don't you want me' pretty much defined a huge part of last year for me. I will always love Gary Numan, the dirty old man that he is. Anyway, I get quiet emotional when I hear this song. It's 'Are Friends Electric' off the album Replica's (1979).