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It's Friday, and it's about 3 o'clock. It's time to go underneath the covers (with the lights out).

I always recommend listening to a cover version without knowing what or who it is, so click on the link before reading ahead...

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That was The Puppini Sisters covering Wuthering Heights, originally by Kate Bush.

Here we have the first representation of a very fine sub-genre of bands: the one-trick covers band. Often it's a concept which doesn't extend beyond one album, but if it's a good trick then the album in question can be bloody marvellous.

So, the Puppini Sisters sing covers in a style which suggests that they might break out into Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy at any minute. In fact, if you buy their first album you will catch them doing exactly that on track 3.

The album's a mixture of classic close harmony songs and covers of recent stuff - and it's all great. Go on, buy a copy and party like it's 1944.

Incidentally: yes, I know this is not the finest cover of Wuthering Heights. But does anyone have the China Drum version in a sensible format? It only seems to exist on tape, as far as I can tell.