The Wonderful World of Covers.

I've thought about this post over and over again, now I'm going to finally put my ideas to paper... I mean blog. As previously stated I love music, but this blog (and my love) is not just about music but recycled music as well, otherwise known as covers.

There is something truly fantastic about covers, the freedom they bring and how they can make you look at a song in a completely different way. And sometimes when a fast song is slowed down you realize how ridiculous the lyrics really are.

Here are a few of my favorites of artists who not only produce their own fabulous music but have enough brain power to reconfigure other songs:

This is Party in the USA originally by Miley Cyrus (which I can't stand, sorry!) and covered here by Danielle Ate the Sandwich feat. Boulder Acoustic Society.  

Pomplamoose is truly great. After listening to this cover of September originally from Earth, Wind and Fire, you need to go and listen to some of their other covers as well as songs they wrote. 

This is my latest wonderful cover find, by my latest favorite band, The Civil Wars. I'm tempted just to put up all their songs that I love but I think that is another post for another time... for the time being please enjoy I Want You Back originally by The Jackson 5.

Last but not least, The Fray singing My Hips Don't Lie originally sung by Shakira and will forever be one of my favorites. Someone cleverly in the comments wrote "Hips Dont Lie - A Dramatic Reading By The Fray." That's all the warning you get :) 

Enjoy! 

The Half Year Point.

So a quick update on the goals that mentioned in my first blog post:

1) Grow a Garden - The garden is growing! In fact we need to get stakes for the tomatoes plants because they are growing so tall!
2) Get better at the piano - ....
3) Get fit and have fun! - This has been an up and down process but I think I've got into a rhythm now where I'm getting fit and having fun... mostly.
4) Grow my hair out - It is growing! Actually I've been noticing lately how long it has been getting. It's still short according to every hair standard but longer then what it was.
5) Go to BC, hopefully this summer! - We're going next week! Yay!

As you can see everything is going rather well except number 2. Now that I've got this all written out I see that I should really get on that...

Cheers! Here's to another 6 months!