March Madness: Round of 32, Pt. 1
Welcome to the 2010 edition of Cover Wars – March Madness. We are taking our efforts from last year and doubling them: this year we’ve got 32 covers in the running for the Championship. Over the past year, we’ve had six different artists win Cover Wars more than once. For these winners, we have paired them up against each other in the first round. For example, if you were going to vote for Trey Anastasio because of your loyalty to him – now you have to decide if he plays a better O-o-h Child or Sultans Of Swing. We have also paired up original artists whenever possible – Did Joan Baez or The Grateful Dead do better justice to their Bob Dylan cover?
All of the winners’ audio/video has been embedded for you and we have linked back to the corresponding Cover Wars that led to each artist’s victory. We have enjoyed running this piece for you every week (or maybe, three times per month?) and hope you enjoy Cover Wars March Madness. My personal highlight would have to be us running The Ballad Of Curtis Loew edition in early May and seeing Phish pull the cover from deep off the shelf three weeks later at Fenway Park. Let’s look at the first eight matchups…
1) Cortez The Killer (Built To Spill) vs. The Maker (DMB)
2) Sultans of Swing (Trey) vs. O-o-h Child (Trey)
3) Will It Go Round In Circles (The Bridge) vs. Godzilla (GUTML)
4) Ballad Of A Thin Man (GD) vs. A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall (Joan Baez)
5) Sweet Virginia (Phish) vs. Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Clare & The Reasons)
6) You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Max Creek) vs. Eminence Front (MC)
7) Naive Melody (Perpetual Groove) vs. Time (Flaming Lips)
8) Lenny (Umphrey’s McGee) vs. Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’ (UM)
For bout number one, we’ve got Built To Spill covering Neil Young’s Cortez The Killer vs. DMB’s cover of Daniel Lanois’ The Maker…
Built To Spill – Cortez The Killer
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Dave Matthews Band – The Maker
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READ ON to place your vote in this matchup and to check out and vote on the other seven March Madness bouts in this part one of our Round of 32…
For bout number two, we’ve got Trey Anastasio taking on himself as his band’s covers of Dire Straits’ Sultans of Swing takes on TAB’s cover of O-o-h Child by The Five Stairsteps…
Trey Anastasio – Sultans Of Swing
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Bout number three features The Bridge’s cover of Billy Preston’s Will It Go Round In Circles vs. GUTML’s version of Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult…
The Bridge – Will It Go Round In Circles
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Give Us The Money Lebowski – Godzilla
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Today’s fourth matchup pits two Dylan covers – the Grateful Dead’s take on Ballad Of A Thin Man vs. Joan Baez’s version of A Hard Rains Gonna Fall…
Grateful Dead – Ballad Of A Thin Man
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Joan Baez – A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
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Our fifth pairing finds Phish’s cover of the Sweet Virginia by the Rolling Stones taking on Clare & The Reasons’ version of Everybody Wants to Rule The World…
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Clare & The Reasons – Everybody Wants To Rule The World
For match number six, it’s Max Creek vs. Max Creek as the pioneering jammers version of You Can’t Always Get What You Want by the Rolling Stones takes on their version of The Who’s Eminence Front…
Max Creek – You Can’t Always Get What You Want
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Bout number seven presents PGroove’s cover of This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) by the Talking Heads vs. The Flaming Lips’ version of Time by Pink Floyd…
Perpetual Groove – This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
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For matchup number eight, we’ve got Umphrey’s McGee battling it out with themselves as their cover of the Rolling Stones’ Can’t You Hear Me Knocking fights it out with their cover of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Lenny…
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Umphrey’s McGee – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
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The action continues on Friday with part two of the Round of 32.
Here’s the rest of the March Madness schedule:
03/16 – March Madness Sweet 16
03/19 – March Madness Elite 8
03/23 – March Madness Final 4
03/30 – March Madness Finals
Voting for round one is open until Sunday at 11:59 PM (EDT).
as a subliminal holiday tale, as well.
Hey there, I must say, and I am being fully honest, I think that roy hobbs agenda’s cover of cant always get what you want, done on halloween opening for max creek, was a stellar version, you should def check it out, you may be suprised. Its at http://www.royhobbsagenda.com under music and just download for free the halloween version. Thanks for your time
Hey there, if I am being fully honest, I think that Nah Worries’ cover of “Apache”, done on halloween opening for Roy Hobbes Agenda, is really stellarer than any of the other versions of Apache ive heard.
One song in and Built To Spill should easily wins this thing. Holy schmokes!
Good choices, those were enjoyable listens. Love that version of Ballad of a Thin Man…
simply put, NAIVE MELODY.
naive melody all the way — I’m just an animal looking for a home Share the same space for a minute or two…
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