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Served Three Ways: Three Grizzly Bear Covers

October 18th, 2012

I’ve always been fascinated by covers songs. What interests me most about cover songs is what the cover says about the covering band and also what it says about the influence of the band being covered. When I started the Served Three Ways series I hoped to allow our readers to contemplate the ways in [...]

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of INXS’ “Never Tear Us Apart”

July 24th, 2012

“Never Tear Us Apart” was released by Australia’s INXS late in the summer of 1988. It was a huge pop hit charting at #7 in the United States. It was often thought of as the anthem for INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, and was even selected by his family and friends to be played as his [...]

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of Rev. Gary Davis’ “Cocaine Blues”

July 17th, 2012

There are at least two popular, well-known tunes that sport the name “Cocaine Blues”. The first of the two is the tune made popular by Johnny Cash which was originally by The Western Aces. The second is a popular finger-picked blues track originally laid down by Reverend Gary Davis. Today’s Served Three Ways features the [...]

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain”

June 12th, 2012

Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” originally appeared on the band’s 1977 masterpiece album Rumors. Interestingly it’s the only tune that is credited to all five of the of the members of the band at the time (Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Stevie Nicks). Even more interestingly, the track’s lyrics were allegedly written [...]

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of The Rolling Stones’ “Ruby Tuesday”

May 22nd, 2012

I’ve always been a fan of The Rolling Stones’ tune “Ruby Tuesday.” So after watching Arcade Fire perform the track alongside Mick Jagger for the Kristen Wiig farewell on SNL, I was inspired to feature it here. The tune was released in 1967 as the b-side to the single “Let’s Spend The Night Together” and [...]

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of Oasis’ “Wonderwall”

May 15th, 2012

I won’t front. I think Oasis’ “Wonderwall” is a pretty damn good song. And by “pretty damn good,” I mean that it’s one of the best and catchiest pop rock songs ever written. The track was written by Noel Gallagher and sang by Liam Gallagher. At the time he wrote the track, Noel claimed it [...]

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of Blackstreet’s “No Diggity”

May 8th, 2012

Blackstreet was formed in 1991 by singer producer Teddy Riley. Interestingly, Riley named the group by combining the names of two of his original group members, Chauncy Black (a.k.a. Chauncy Hannibal) and Joseph Stonestreet. However, Stonestreet only released one single with the group (1993′s “Baby Be Mine”) before departing for his own reasons. Subsequently, he [...]

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of Justin Timberlake’s “My Love”

May 1st, 2012

I can very clearly remember the moment I realized that Justin Timberlake’s FutureSex/LoveSounds didn’t suck. For it’s first month or more of existence I lived a FutureSex/LoveSounds-free life (seriously, I’d been living under a rock or something). I’d nonetheless convinced myself it wasn’t for me and that I wouldn’t like it. After all, Justin Timberlake just wasn’t [...]

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of Bjork’s “Unravel”

April 24th, 2012

Is it just me, or is it hard to believe that Bjork has been recording music since the late 1980s? Indeed, Bjork’s first band, the Sugarcubes, released their first album in 1988. Not long thereafter (about a year after the Sucarcubes broke up), Bjork debuted her solo material in 1993. Throughout the course of her [...]

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of The Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog”

April 17th, 2012

It’s hard not to imagine a lot of head-scratching from casual rock critics when The Stooges released their debut album in 1969. Sure people had been exposed to the swagger and energy of groups like The Rolling Stones, The Troggs, The Velvet Underground; but the world wouldn’t be exposed to punk at large for a [...]

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Served Three Ways: Three Grizzly Bear Covers

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of INXS’ “Never Tear Us Apart”

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of Rev. Gary Davis’ “Cocaine Blues”

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain”

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of The Rolling Stones’ “Ruby Tuesday”

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of Oasis’ “Wonderwall”

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of Blackstreet’s “No Diggity”

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of Justin Timberlake’s “My Love”

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of Bjork’s “Unravel”

Served Three Ways: Three Covers of The Stooges’ “I Wanna Be Your Dog”

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