Cover Songs

AOL Radio Blog published their list of Top 10 Best Cover Songs of all time yesterday, which you can view right here.

Pretty standard list, although I personally think some of those covers are so much more popular than their originals that they shouldn't count. I love the Johnny Cash and Joey Ramone choices, though.

Here's a little Joey Ramone for you:

	Joey Ramone - What a Wonderful World
	Found at skreemr.com

From the Screen to your Stereo

In a manner almost identical to MxPx, New Found Glory has embraced the "cover album." The difference for New Found Glory is that the covers on both editions of From the Screen to Your Stereo (2000 & 2007)are (obviously)songs made famous by movies, which I always found to be clever.

	New Found Glory - (Everything I Do) I Do It For
	Found at skreemr.com

	New Found Glory - Love Fool
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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Staying on the topic of cover songs, I thought I'd share Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, a punk rock "super group" that only puts out cover records. The band consists of:

Spike Slawson (of Swingin' Utters and Re-Volts)- vocals
"Fat" Mike Burkett (of NOFX)- bass
Chris Shiflett (of Foo Fighters)- guitar
Joey Cape (of Lagwagon)- guitar
Dave Raun (of Lagwagon)- drums

A typical Gimmes album has a theme like Love Their Country or Have a Drag which include country songs and showtunes, respectively. At their live shows they typically dress in costumes that relate to the theme.

	Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Wild World
	Found at skreemr.com

Cover Songs: Green Day

Somehow Green Day managed to slip an album of b-sides and cover songs by me a few years ago which I am just discovering now. The album, Shenanigans, includes two great covers. "Outsider," by the Ramones, and "Tired of Waiting for You," by The Kinks. Both are fantastic as far as cover songs go, but then Green Day has always been smart about choosing which cover songs to actually record. Here for your listening pleasure are all of Green Day's cover songs.

Also, a great website to check out is COVERSPROJECT, which lets you choose any band you'd like to find out if they've covered or been covered. Don't bother looking at the Ramones page or Bob Dylan's page unless you have all day.

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*The final track is "Don't Want to Know if You Are Lonely," by Hüsker Dü.