Covering covers # 1 - Song to the Siren

In a new, ongoing series of utterly awesome things that come from the mind of me, I present the most bloggy thing I've done in quite a while: wholly biased reviews of every possible cover I can find of many songs that warrant such a collection. Reviews, anecdotes, wild tangents.. all of it for your amusement, my folly and the greater benefit of research scientists everywhere. Your welcome, internet.

I've always known that the first song I'd cover-catalog, so to speak, would be Song To The Sirens. Why? I'm not sure. It's so ballady and emo, you'd think I'd be too cool for school to label it one of my favorite songs ever. As a goth teenager with a self-stifled picture of musical history and genres, I mistakenly thought this song was created by This Mortal Coil (2nd version below).
Alas, no. Written in 1967 by Tim Buckley and his writing partner Larry Beckett, it was first released on Buckley's 1970 album Starsailor ..later released on Morning Glory: The Tim Buckley Anthology, the album featuring a performance of the song taken from the final episode of The Monkees TV show [March 25, 1968.] Wikipedia actually has a great page of background info on the song (thank you internet?) so check it out if ya like. Otherwise, on to the versions....

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• Song to the Siren by Tim Buckley (1971)
  • Song of the Siren by Pat Boone (1969)
  • Song to the Siren by This Mortal Coil (September 1983)
  • Song to the Siren by Cul de sac (1992)
  • Song to the Siren by Beasts of Paradise (1995)
  • Song to the Siren by Sally Oldfield (1996)
  • Song to the Siren by The Geoff Smith Band (1997)
  • Song to the Siren by The King (October 5, 1998)
  • Song to the Siren by The Czars (September 19, 2000)
  • Song to the Siren by Susheela Raman (2001)
  • Song to the Siren by Sheila Chandra (2001)
  • Song to the Siren by Vengeance (2001)
  • Song to the Siren by Barraka (2002)
  • Did I Dream (Song to the Siren) by Lost Witness (2002)
  • Song to the Siren by Damon & Naomi feat. Michio Kurihara (2002)
  • Song to the Siren by Robert Plant (June 24, 2002)
  • Song to the Siren by James Yorkston (June 5, 2005)
  • Song to the Siren by The Engineers (October 31, 2005)
  • Song to the Siren by David Gray (August 2007)
  • Song to the Siren by John Frusciante
    
  
  
  Of course, the version I most want to find now is the Pat Boone one, which I of course, because I want to find it, .. cant.