Yesterday, I gave you an essay about Punk Covers. I talked about how the genre of punk rock (or rawk, if you prefer), lends itself to the concept of a cover. I gave several examples of punk rawk covers as well! It only feels natural to take those examples, and give you, my readers, a […]
A couple years ago, I started to explore an interesting sub-genre – the punk cover.ย The rules of the sub-genre are quite simple – it’s got to be a song, any song, covered by a punk band.ย The sub-genre has a massive amount of songs. Some punk artists will do entire albums of nothing but
Last week, I published an article exploring the song “Rainbow Connection.” I mention many songs about dreams and rainbows, so today, I thought everyone would love a companion playlist. I include several of these song in last week’s article, but there are so many more songs that fit into this category. So – this playlist
There’s one song that makes me cry every time I hear it – Rainbow Connection. Yes, yes, a song made to pretty much sell movie tickets and further the Muppet franchise makes me sob – pretty much as soon as the lyric “Someday we’ll find it” plays. This actuality used to embarrass me, but recently,
“Because The Night” has an interesting history.ย Bruce Springsteen technically wrote the song – but decided he didn’t actually want to use it – he had too many love songs on his then current project. Patti Smith happened to be recording next door, and got a copy of the song, tweaked a few things, recorded