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Round 2
Pick the cover song you like better.
Mad World* by Michael Andrews & Gary Jules
Time After Time (Time After Time)** by Eva Cassidy
Vote solely on the cover versions, NOT the original songs.
Original artists included for clarification purposes only.
* originally by Tears for Fears
** originally by Cyndi Lauper under the title Time After Time
Lesser Spring
Autumn, Is a lesser Spring A most fragile awkward bloom Falling memories of momentary splendor Dripping rusted color It's lush verdure fades Forcing tender verdant blades to bleed inward The blustery blow of blighted breath Dries out insipid skies Fleshy pigments crushed haphazardly Into crackled dust, A seedling's Birthright & sacrament to lesser Spring
re: "fields of gold." sting wrote the song but, to me, it belongs to someone else - eva cassidy, who did a beautiful cover of it on her first album, "songbird." she tragically passed away a few years later, too young. but she left such beauty behind in the time she had. i think the resonance with john's short, beautiful life was intentional.
Very Best Cover Tournament Redux
The first tournament this blog ran was for the the Very Best Cover, but in all the polls, we never voted on the frank comparison of each cover versus the original version. This special feature will allow voters to determine which version of the song is better: its original incarnation, or the cover that competed in the tournament.
Note that some of the original recordings will be deep cuts the listener is unfamiliar with, because a cover (whether the one that competed in the tournament, or another) is more famous.
Which is better?
Autumn Leaves by Jo Stafford
Autumn Leaves by Eva Cassidy
Time After Time - Eva Cassidy
If you’re lost you can look and you will find me Time after time If you fall, I will catch you, I’ll be waiting Time after time
—"Time After Time" by Eva Cassidy, Smallville, “Crush”
