View From the Bushes

A while ago, one of my favorite commentators, Neal Boortz was out of town for a week, so one of his lackeys took over his blog. This particular lackey had a passion for cover songs, something I also really enjoy, and she posted some really great links. The best was to a podcast called Coverville. I've been listening to that recently and it is really quite good. I especially enjoy it when the cover is better than the original. (An example of that, in my opinion, would be the second song in this podcast. It's a cover of Sting's "Fields of Gold".)

Before IP laws became so draconian, most music was a cover. This isn't the best example, but compare the percentage of time you go to the symphony and hear something composed recently vs. how often they're playing Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. And the reason is that the number of great musicians vastly exceeds the number of great composers. Because of this, you end up with bands that do a cover and it's awesome, but then you listen to the rest of their stuff (the stuff they wrote) and it's dreck.

In any case, that's all I have to say for the moment on covers, but I would highly recommend checking out Coverville.com if you're into podcasts at all. In other news, there has long been a phenomenon known as "milky seas" during which the entire ocean glows for miles in every direction. Well, they finally have satellite imagery of the event with accompaning article.

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