Under the Covers Part One

Sweet Talk

From the brain flow of Paste's Editor At Large:

Some nefarious music hounds from Decatur twisted my outsized ego into creating a dialogue littered with opinionated recommendations and myopic rants. Therefore, to put a smidgen of decency back into nepotism, I have stolen the title "Sweet Talk" in homage of my father who had a weekly sports and leisure column of the same in the early 70's that was syndicated in several small town newspapers in the land the gods made great, New England (sans Connecticut of course). Luckily this space will focus more on sporting leisure, my favorite kind.

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Okay, so many of you know that Sweet Talk has embarked on a book regarding cover songs currently titled, Underneath The Covers. Luckily, ST’s brilliant financial and reggae correspondent (he mans both bureaus in the ST offices), Sir Choward, offered up a new chapter heading for possible inclusion in what will surely be the definitive book on cover songs since the first Hymnal was scratched out on sheep gut. So it’s on the table for you, our dedicated readers to absorb, research and set the spark for furious debate in the comment section below. The best three entries will win the famous Sweet Talk care package of random greatness (past CPORG’s have included snip bottles of Jack Daniels, guitar Strings, my old skateboard or the new Pernice Brothers Album) Seriously.

Sir Choward’s Chapter

Small Drum Roll

“COVER SONGS THAT ARE NOT GOOD BUT NOT AS BAD AS THE ORIGINAL”

Entry #1: Lucky Dube’s cover of “I Want to Know What Love Is” (Foreigner) Sir Choward

Entry #2: Paul Anka’s cover of “Jump” (Van Halen) Sweet Talk
(On the other side Aztec Camera’s cover of “Jumo” is nothing short of top shelf)

Entry #3: Brave Combo’s version of “Double Vision” (Foreigner) Dogman

Entry #4: ??????????

Deadline for Submissions is January 7th: