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We’ve turned 4!VG 4TH ANNIVERSARY GUEST MIX N° 5:SLICING UP EYEBALLS
Happy Birthday to us! It’s Versions Galore’s 4th anniversary and we’re celebrating this month by letting some very special guests behind the cover versions controls… When people wax nostalgic about...
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We’ve turned 4!VG 4TH ANNIVERSARY GUEST MIX N° 6:THE ACID HOUSE
As I’ve bitched, whined, moaned and lamented many a time here on this blog, had I not decided (somewhat arbitrarily) on cover versions, Versions Galore could have easily been an electronic music site....
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We’ve turned 4!VG 4TH ANNIVERSARY GUEST MIX N° 7:SHOCKMAN
Today’s entry is probably nepotism run amuck, but not without merit. I first mentioned my good friend Shockman last year, and how we both worked, some years ago, at a big electronic music rag. Two...
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We’ve turned 4!VG 4TH ANNIVERSARY GUEST MIX N° 8:HVW8 (TYLER GIBNEY)
Happy Birthday to us! It’s the 8th and final installment of Versions Galore’s 4th Anniversary Guest Cover Mix series… HVW8, for the uninitiated, are an art collective made up of Gene Pendon, Tyler...
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Lab Results
Marc Mac, 1/2 of pioneering electronic neo soul/future jazz duo 4 Hero, takes a sabbatical from his outfit’s always stellar tributes of 70s soul classics to cover the unexpected. Under his Visioneers...
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Slippery People
So I finally joined the 21st century and got Netflix On Demand, which, btw, is utter shite.There are a few gems in there however not the least which is Breaking Bad, of which I’d also been sleeping on...
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Scream Team
Dubstep, at least up until the last couple years, has been defined by it’s sparseness. A slow, raw plodding beat, heavy but simplistic bass line and punctuated by the occasional echoing atmosperic...
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Top Of The Pops
Up to my receding hairline with the day job, so today’s entry is going to be both pithy and brief: • Public Image Ltd (PiL) were a million times better than the Sex Pistols. Fact. • Got 5...
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Shedding Tears
Time to bust out your largest bangles, silk blouse and hoop earrings and prepare to cut a rug for the husband and wife team of Linda and Cecil Womack (better known simply as Womack & Womack) who...
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Cloudy Future
So today’s post I actually put to a vote by asking a handful of friends: When a band re-visits one of their classics in a new fashion, is it still considered a ‘cover’? Instead of lenthy postmodern...
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Superstitious Behavior
For the most part I don’t consider myself superstitious about anything; No black cats, no ghosts, no bigfoots, no ufos and no books involving talking snakes and zombie messiahs (though when put that...
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Treehuggers
Strawberry Switchblade. I’ve always had a soft spot for this unsung 80s duo. Back when I was a wee teen dabbling in goth I came across a pic of Rose McDowall & Jill Bryson on the cover of UK new...
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Ital Breakfast
I love Blake Edwards films;The Party, the Pink Panther series, and today’s subject, Breakfast At Tiffany’s. What I especially love however are his soiree scenes. The man is veritable auteur of party...
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Going Viral
Got another left of the dial 80s classic today, Infected by The The. Taken from the eponymous album, Infected saw The The’s Matt Johnson taking his earlier penchant for pop, and lyrical angst during...
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Strong Arm Steady
“Like a bird, on the wing I just wanna be free enough to do my thing” Some days are headphone days. Headphones and a good walk. Actually make that walk a full blown head bobbing, bicep curling strut....
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Buried
As the title implies, I’ve been buried alive, under deadlines. Surfacing however for a quick post. Two covers of soulful yet enigmatic UK dubstep proudcer (the good kind) William Bevan AKA Burial. One...
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You Blockhead!
During it’s fetid late 70s heyday the US may have had mutant disco masterminds like James Chance or Cristina, but the UK had it’s own homegrown funk punk, the late Ian Dury and The Blockheads. The man...
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Flower Child
Most folks tend to know Minnie Riperton via her octave breaching signature 70s hit Loving You, and for giving us doe-eyed funny girl Maya Rudolph (her daughter with composer and husband Richard...
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Flashback Friday:Pretty Fly
It’s Flashback Friday time again. So today we’re setting the Versions wayback machine for, well, really only about a year ago, when we ran a rather fat post on Human Fly by late great psychobilly...
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☞ The End
Well folks, as the title implies this here’s the end. It pains me to no great measure to have to retire Versions Galore my little glorified hobby, but ‘the man’ has made it fairly untenable by, yet...
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