Oooh, a much closer competition last week, with “Stuck In The Middle With You”. Jeff Healey barely edged out Susanna Hoffs, with 47% of the vote, compared to the Bangles’ frontwoman with 41%. 8% did’t care for either, and a few of the other answers preferred Michael Madsen’s impromptu karaoke of the song in that famous Reservoir Dogs scene. Ouch!
This week, we look at a couple songs that have both graced the Coverville Countdown in years past. Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb”, covered by both Copper Box and the Scissor Sisters. And we change up the format this week, putting the songs into a podcast instead of posting individual tracks, putting it into the Coverville feed as well as keeping potential licensing issues at bay. (What do you think of the new format? Post comments below)
Which of those two versions eases your pain, and gets you on your feet again?
Listen to the podcast featuring both songs:
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Ah, ah, ah, ah
Stayin' Alive
Stayin' Alive.
Oh, sorry. Listening to the Scissor Sisters channeling the Bee Gees got me off track.
You know who does an incredible cover of this? The Bad Plus, that's who. It's on their MySpace. Awesome.
Luther Wright & The Wrongs trump Copper Box.
Vote? Neither of these, after having heard the Dar Williams version. As to the new format, though, I like it. I update via iTunes more often than I check my RSS feed, so it's very nice to have things magically appear in my podcasts playlist.
Scissor Sisters get my vote out of these two, because the Copper Box version covers just the lyrics, the whole tone and ideas put forth by the Pink Floyd are completely lost
BUT, I listened to the Dar Williams/Ani DiFranco version (thank you Carabosse)and it is fantastic!
Copperbox here. Just feels more epic. The Scissor Sisters version is just too weird for me to like it.