Round 20: It shouldn't work, but it does

Darts Thrown: January 23rd 2019

Blog Written: May 22nd 2019

Highest Score: 120

Lowest Score: 2

Sixties: 19
100+: 3

Blogger's Note: Written in haste, so there will be spelling mistakes and slapdash grammar.

Look at the date this blog was written. A backlog, people. No specially selected book, as a backdrop with the piss-poor excuses for why I haven't read it. Just a the facts, mam. I have a lot of these to steam through. Maybe I'll provide the colour commentary once they are all on the blog.

. . .  And you just know that I will have mislaid at least one sheet.

But I will use the this rush through as a cheap excuse to post music videos from YouTube. Why not? I need a soundtrack whilst I do this. Next up is Men of North Country's cover version of the Human League's Mirror Man. I stumbled across this version on some Facebook group that I frequent, and I have to admit that it works - especially that guitar break in the middle - and that's something coming from me 'cos I'm usually steadfast in denying to like a cover version of a song that I love . . .  and I love this era Human League. They were so underrated. As someone mentioned in the Facebook comments to the original post, who knew Mirror Man was a lost Northern Soul classic? A good spot.

The Next 30 Day Song Challenge - day 06

Day 06 - A song that you didn't initially realise was a cover version

I'm cheating on this because I originally discovered Sloan's cover of Paul McCartney's 'Waterfalls' via a music blog's compilation of covers. Maybe this day's 'Next Day Song Challenge' should be retitled 'A song that you didn't initially realise was the last great song written by Paul McCartney'.


Sloan's great version of a great song:




And McCartney's wonderful original:

Blogging in the right frame of mind?

A jazz/swing cover version of Aztec Camera's 'Somewhere In My Heart'?

Todd Gordon has done the honours and it's better than the original. First person to mention Mike Flowers in the comments box gets strangled with my loose bow tie.