{"id":13831,"date":"2004-11-23T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/23\/50-best-covers\/"},"modified":"2004-11-23T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-23T23:08:00","slug":"50-best-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/23\/50-best-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Best Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/2004\/10\/do-they-know-its-christmas-to-be-re.html\" target=\"_blank\">post about the re-recording of <i>Do They Know It&rsquo;s Christmas?<\/i><\/a>, I tend to dislike cover songs initially, although I do have to admit that some cover versions have won me over.  UK&rsquo;s <i>Telegraph<\/i> has compiled its list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml?xml=\/arts\/2004\/11\/20\/bmcovercont20.xml&amp;sSheet=\/arts\/2004\/11\/20\/ixtop.html\" target=\"_blank\">50 best cover songs<\/a>, and it seems like they did a decent job.  I didn&rsquo;t recognize some songs at all, though, and I was actually surprised to find that some songs I thought were originals were actually cover versions.  Now I need to find some of the covers (and originals) to hear them for myself&hellip; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>For a great reference on cover songs, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coversproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Covers Project<\/a>, a comprehensive &ldquo;database of cover songs (songs performed by an artist other than the original performer) with the intention of creating cover &lsquo;chains.&rsquo;&rdquo;  Very cool&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marchdesign.com\/2004\/11\/50-best-cover-versions-fwiw-these.html\" target=\"_blank\">*.*<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110122437495456991?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in my recent post about the re-recording of Do They Know It&rsquo;s Christmas?, I tend to dislike cover songs initially, although I do have to admit that some cover versions have won me over. UK&rsquo;s Telegraph has compiled its list of the 50 best cover songs, and it seems like they did &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/23\/50-best-covers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;50 Best Covers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}