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It's Friday, it's considerably after 3 o'clock, but hey, I'm on holiday. I'm also not reading email, by the way. Back Sunday. Anyway, 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...

Today's cover version [link to mp3 expired]

That was the Senseless Things covering Apache, originally by The Shadows.

Apache, by the Shadows: a bunch of blokes, with guitars, playing a tune. This cover: a bunch of blokes, with guitars, playing the same tune. It never ceases to amaze me the different sounds you can get out of guitars. Yes, I know pedals and things get involved, but that there can be such a distinctive "Shadows sound" and such a totally different sound coming out of basically the same instruments is a thing of wonder. Well, it is if you're me.

Mind you, if you're me the Senseless Things are doing that walk while playing it as well.

This comes from the amazing Ruby Trax album; forty cover versions to celebrate NME's fortieth anniversary. If you like cover versions, you should seriously consider it. If you also like your 90s indie you should drop everything you're doing and buy a copy right now. We'll probably have another track or two from it appearing here before the year's out.

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£128.75 for a new copy? Yikes. Tenner for a 2h one is pretty good though.

I find this cover a bit annoying, because they have tweaked some of the notes, to no good purpose afaich. Nice idea though.

Or you can have it on cassette from ebay for 3 quid :)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330457629945

A tenner for secondhand was obviously too good, as the cheapest available now is over £20!

I suspect

venta's adoring public may have already snapped up the one at a tenner!

For a moment there, I thought it was the Buffy theme tune!

Ooh, somewhere I've got a cover of someone doing the Batman theme tune... can't think who, now.

It took me a while, but I did recognise the original running through the middle eventually, even if I couldn't have named it. I like it, but not quite enough to spend 20 quid on a cover album, but as I like covers.

Erm, so *obviously* it makes sense to bid 25 quid for it on vinyl on ebay? Erm. I do expect to be outbid in the remaining day it's running mind.

Edited 2010-08-07 09:06 (UTC)

Makes perfect sense :)
Did you win?

Aha, you replied just on cue: I've just paid for it, should get it in the next few days.

Oops :)

Yay! Hurray for vinyl. I hope you like it.

My mum and dad arrived yesterday with a box of vinyl from a clearout. Mostly stuff that belonged to my sisters (highlights include Erasure, Kylie, Madonna and REM) and my grandad (Jimmy Shand Scottish country dances, some banjo music, a Glenn Miller LP and a selection of classical). Some of that is on 78s though, and my machine won't play them. I've been told to feel free to take anything I don't want to the charity shop though :)

I'm about to start ripping everything I have; I'm looking forward to reacquainting myself with my copy of Ruby Trax - bought many years ago for a Tori cover

Edited 2010-08-08 21:37 (UTC)

Ah yes, Ring My Bell - I only know the Tori cover, not the original. I'm just playing the Anita Ward version on youtube now, and suspect I would have very much approved of the cover if I'd met the songs in the correct order :)