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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