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Cover Wars March Madness: Round of 16

Written by DaveO on 03.16.2010 | Cover Wars, Editor's Choice, March Madness

Sure we’re a bit ahead of the NCAA because we’re already down to sixteen contenders. Voting turnout was great in the first round, thanks to everyone who made their voices heard throughout the last week. Some races were very close, Primus (The Devil Went Down To Georgia) inched out Widespread Panic (Skin It Back) 51% to 49%. Some were blowouts, Bruce Hornsby & Trey Anastasio took down 90% of the vote when matched up against The Waybacks. Clare & The Reasons did their best to fire up their Facebook fans, but they could not overcome the built-in Phish advantage here on Hidden Track as they lost 57% to 43%.

In the first round we did our best to match up the artists that had won multiple Cover Wars ver the past year. We’ve still got two left as we’ll see Bruce Hornsby & Trey Anastasio take on Trey Anastasio’s solo band. And there are still two Phish covers in the mix. Once we’re down to the round of eight on Friday, we’ll have this all cleaned up.

1) Bruce Hornsby & Trey Anastasio – Standing On The Moon vs. Trey Anastasio – Sultans of Swing
2) Jeff Tweedy – I’m Only Sleeping vs. YARN – Oh! Sweet Nuthin’
3) Built To Spill – Cortez The Killer vs. Foo Fighters – Band on The Run
4) Umphrey’s McGee – Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’ vs. Max Creek – Eminence Front
5) Phish – Sweet Virginia vs. Phish – Ballad of Curtis Loew
6) Pearl Jam – Baba O’Riley vs. Grateful Dead – Ballad Of A Thin Man
7) Give Us The Money Lebowski – Godzilla vs. of Montreal – Moonage Daydream
8) Perpetual Groove – This Must Be The Place vs. Primus – The Devil Went Down To Georgia

For our first Round of 16 matchup, we’ve got Trey Anastasio teaming up with Bruce Hornsby to cover the Dead’s Standing On The Moon taking on Big Red’s cover of Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits…

Bruce Hornsby & Trey Anastasio – Standing On The Moon

Trey Anastasio – Sultans of Swing

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READ ON to vote and for the other seven Sweet 16 bouts…

This week’s second bout finds Jeff Tweedy’s cover of The Beatles’ I’m Only Sleeping going up against YARN’s version of Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ by Velvet Underground…

Jeff Tweedy – I’m Only Sleeping

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YARN – Oh! Sweet Nuthin’

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Matchup number three involves Built to Spill’s cover of Neil Young’s Cortez The Killer going up against the Foo Fighters’ version of Band on the Run by Paul McCartney…

Built To Spill – Cortez The Killer

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Foo Fighters – Band on The Run

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Our fourth bout finds Umphrey’s McGee covering Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’ by the Rolling Stones vs. Max Creek’s version of The Who’s Eminence Front…

Umphrey’s McGee – Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’

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Max Creek – Eminence Front

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In bout number five, Phish battles themselves as their cover of the Rolling Stones’ Sweet Virginia goes up against their cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s The Ballad of Curtis Loew…

Phish – Sweet Virginia

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Phish – The Ballad of Curtis Loew

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Matchup number six features Pearl Jam’s cover of Baba O’Riley by The Who squaring off against the Grateful Dead’s version of Ballad of a Thin Man by Bob Dylan…

Pearl Jam – Baba O’Riley

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Grateful Dead – Ballad Of A Thin Man

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Our penultimate bout finds Give Us The Money Lebowski’s version of Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult going up against Of Montreal’s take on Bowie’s Moonage Daydream…

Give Us The Money Lebowski – Godzilla

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of Montreal – Moonage Daydream

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Our final bout finds Perpetual Groove’s cover of the Talking Heads’ This Must Be The Place vs. Primus’ version of The Devil Went Down To Georgia by Charlie Daniels…

Perpetual Groove – This Must Be The Place

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Primus – The Devil Went Down To Georgia

Here’s the rest of the March Madness schedule:

03/19 – March Madness Elite 8
03/23 – March Madness Final 4
03/30 – March Madness Finals

Voting for this round is open until Thursday at 11:59 PM (EDT).

DaveO

David Onigman is a recent transplant from Boston to San Francisco. In addition to behind the scenes work and the occasional post, DaveO contributes the (almost) weekly Cover Wars column, though he's always looking for guest authors for it.

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7 Responses to “Cover Wars March Madness: Round of 16”

Crowfan says:
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 3:53 pm

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The Counting Crows covered Sweet Virginia on the 09 summer tour and should have made the list. check out http://www.crowstown.com to listen to the song. Don’t get me wrong I love phish but the Crows version is killer.
DaveO says:
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 4:02 pm

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Crowfan,

Their version was featured in the Sweet Virginia Cover Wars:

http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/cover-wars-sweet-virginia-edition/

This tournament is simply a compilation of all the winners, had the Counting Crows received more votes than Phish that week, they would be in the tournament.

Thanks for reading.
headyesq says:
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 6:15 pm

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naive melody really should just be declared the winner right now….just saying.
Ryan D says:
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 2:29 pm

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That’s quite the biff on the first guitar solo of PJ’s Baba O’Riley.
Faceless says:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 12:18 am

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Give Us The Money Lebowski? Over Panic?
Schools says:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 3:52 pm

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Hey Faceless, do your research before posting next time. Even moe. beat the rednecks. Troll.

http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/cover-wars-godzilla-edition/
phrankb says:
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 4:24 pm

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Go go Godzilla

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