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Coversdome - Covered With Glory
- Thread starter Torzelbaum
- Start date
Stand By Me and All Star are moving on.
Match 15:
Next up we have Purple pick of The Bangles covering Simon & Garfunkel's (A) Hazy Shade of Winter facing off against Violentvixen pick of
CAKE's cover of I Will Survive originally by Gloria Gaynor
Hazy Shade of Winter
CoVersus
I Will Survive
Match 16:
And here we have another cover of a Talking Heads song with Found a Job as covered by The Linda Lindas (picked by Exposition Owl). It's going up against WildcatJF's pick of Robyn's Dancing on My Own being covered by The Regrettes.
Found a Job
CoVersus
Dancing on My Own
@Exposition Owl @WildcatJF @Purple @Violentvixen
Matches will be open for 24 hours.
Next up we have Purple pick of The Bangles covering Simon & Garfunkel's (A) Hazy Shade of Winter facing off against Violentvixen pick of
CAKE's cover of I Will Survive originally by Gloria Gaynor
Hazy Shade of Winter
CoVersus
I Will Survive
Match 16:
And here we have another cover of a Talking Heads song with Found a Job as covered by The Linda Lindas (picked by Exposition Owl). It's going up against WildcatJF's pick of Robyn's Dancing on My Own being covered by The Regrettes.
Found a Job
CoVersus
Dancing on My Own
@Exposition Owl @WildcatJF @Purple @Violentvixen
Matches will be open for 24 hours.
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I Will Find A Job
The Linda Bangles
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Hazy Shade of Winter
and
thinking
and
thinking
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
Hazy Job of Winter
Results: "Hazy Shade of Winter" and "Found a Job" are moving on
And we've got the final matches of this round.
Match 17:
We have Purple's pick of Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and Akira Yamaoka covering Always on My Mind (which was written by Wayne Carson, Johnny Christopher and Mark James*) going up against my pick of Nirvana's cover of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World (as featured on MTV Unplugged).
*Always on My Mind was first recorded by Brenda Lee and first released by Gwen McCrae with Lee's version coming out a few months later. It has been covered by many artists. The McGlynn & Yamaoka version was used in the video game Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.
Always on My Mind
CoVersus
The Man Who Sold the World
Match 18:
And we close out the round with "Weird Al" Yankovic covering (but not parodying) Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody as Bohemian Polka (nominated by SpoonyBard). And it's going up against a pick which gives us the situation of a previous cover artist, Disturbed, now becoming the covered artist as Richard Cheese (& Lounge Against The Machine) cover Down with the Sickness (nominated by Violentvixen).
Bohemian Polka (née Rhapsody)
CoVersus
Down with the Sickness
@SpoonyBard @Violentvixen @Purple
Voting will be open for 24 hours.
Match 17:
We have Purple's pick of Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and Akira Yamaoka covering Always on My Mind (which was written by Wayne Carson, Johnny Christopher and Mark James*) going up against my pick of Nirvana's cover of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World (as featured on MTV Unplugged).
*Always on My Mind was first recorded by Brenda Lee and first released by Gwen McCrae with Lee's version coming out a few months later. It has been covered by many artists. The McGlynn & Yamaoka version was used in the video game Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.
Always on My Mind
CoVersus
The Man Who Sold the World
Match 18:
And we close out the round with "Weird Al" Yankovic covering (but not parodying) Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody as Bohemian Polka (nominated by SpoonyBard). And it's going up against a pick which gives us the situation of a previous cover artist, Disturbed, now becoming the covered artist as Richard Cheese (& Lounge Against The Machine) cover Down with the Sickness (nominated by Violentvixen).
Bohemian Polka (née Rhapsody)
CoVersus
Down with the Sickness
@SpoonyBard @Violentvixen @Purple
Voting will be open for 24 hours.
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Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
The Man Who Bohemianed The Rhapsody
The Man Who Sold the Weird
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Violentvixen
(She/Her)
The Man Who Was Down With the Sickness
Down With the Man Who Sold the World
Still, that first matchup especially was a tough one. Some great trip-hop vibes from Yamaoka and McGlynn.
ETA: Do you have any songs that you thought about nominating in this dome, but didn’t quite make the cut? I, for one, would love to hear them. Torzelbaum made a great thread for songs that had to be left out of Thunderdomes, and it deserves more love!
Still, that first matchup especially was a tough one. Some great trip-hop vibes from Yamaoka and McGlynn.
ETA: Do you have any songs that you thought about nominating in this dome, but didn’t quite make the cut? I, for one, would love to hear them. Torzelbaum made a great thread for songs that had to be left out of Thunderdomes, and it deserves more love!
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So for Bohemian Poka there was something interesting I came across while doing my checks of all of the entrants.
Polka originated in nineteenth-century Bohemia (which is now part of the Czech Republic). Now you might think that bohemian is directly related but it isn't:
"The term bohemianism emerged in France in the early 19th century out of perceived similarities between the urban Bohemians and the Romani people; La bohème was a common term for the Romani people of France, who were thought to have reached France in the 15th century via Bohemia (the western part of modern Czech Republic). Bohemianism and its adjective bohemian in this specific context are not connected to the native inhabitants of the historical region of Bohemia (the Czechs)." (This isn't the first time this has happened to the Romani people.)
Polka originated in nineteenth-century Bohemia (which is now part of the Czech Republic). Now you might think that bohemian is directly related but it isn't:
"The term bohemianism emerged in France in the early 19th century out of perceived similarities between the urban Bohemians and the Romani people; La bohème was a common term for the Romani people of France, who were thought to have reached France in the 15th century via Bohemia (the western part of modern Czech Republic). Bohemianism and its adjective bohemian in this specific context are not connected to the native inhabitants of the historical region of Bohemia (the Czechs)." (This isn't the first time this has happened to the Romani people.)
Thanks for posting that thread. I had forgotten all about it.
Match 19:
Because the Night is going mano a Iron Man-o. They have Issun and Johnny in their respective corners.
Because the Night
CoVersus
Iron Man
Match 20:
Was this Fever caused by Tainted Love? Expo Owl and Purple raised the question but only you can provide the answer.
Fever
CoVersus
Tainted Love
@Issun @Johnny Unusual @Exposition Owl @Purple
Voting will be open for 24 hours.
Because the Night is going mano a Iron Man-o. They have Issun and Johnny in their respective corners.
Because the Night
CoVersus
Iron Man
Match 20:
Was this Fever caused by Tainted Love? Expo Owl and Purple raised the question but only you can provide the answer.
Fever
CoVersus
Tainted Love
@Issun @Johnny Unusual @Exposition Owl @Purple
Voting will be open for 24 hours.
Aw dang and heck I forgot to vote when one of my noms was up again. For some reason I'm not being pinged on the forum when I get @-ed in a thread.
Anyway, Iron Fever.
Anyway, Iron Fever.
Because the Fever
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
Iron Love
Because the Night
and
Tainted Love
and
Tainted Love
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Oh man I love all four of these yikes.
I'll go with Iron Man and Tainted Love but dang that's tough.
I'll go with Iron Man and Tainted Love but dang that's tough.
Because the NIght and Tainted Love are moving on.
Match 21:
Will Boney M. be able to keep things Sunny? Or will Angélique Kidjo make them Born Under Punches?
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
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Sunny
Match 22:
8 Bit Universe is asking do you wanna Take On Me? They Might Be Giants Got a World That Swings so will they come out swinging?
Take On Me
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We've Got a World That Swings
@SpoonyBard @Kirin @Exposition Owl @Johnny Unusual
You've got your 24 hours to vote, per usual.
Will Boney M. be able to keep things Sunny? Or will Angélique Kidjo make them Born Under Punches?
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
CoVersus
Sunny
Match 22:
8 Bit Universe is asking do you wanna Take On Me? They Might Be Giants Got a World That Swings so will they come out swinging?
Take On Me
CoVersus
We've Got a World That Swings
@SpoonyBard @Kirin @Exposition Owl @Johnny Unusual
You've got your 24 hours to vote, per usual.