Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Sound Cover Day














While 100.3 The Sound might be, most of the time, a slightly less boring version of KLOS, sometimes they have some cool special features.

Today is one of those days.  Every song is a cover song.  The link with Halloween is tenuous - the station is "under the covers" for Halloween (as in it's scared.)  And for some stations (like KRTH) these concepts are merely the same old songs as usual, just grouped by theme.

However today's little departure from the norm is bringing some cool tunes that normally do not get on the air, and some pretty weird stuff.  Examples:

Dave Mason doing Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower
Green Day doing Lennon's Working Man's Hero
William Shatner doing Elton John's Rocket Man (as awful as it sounds, but so bad it's good....sort of)
Cranberries doing Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way
Jose Feliciano doing The Doors' Light My Fire

Would have been more interesting IMO if they played the original next to the cover - maybe next time.