Two songs revisited
Stereogum.com has a bunch of covers of REM's songs from the album, Automatic For The People. I listened to the cover of "Drive", but it couldn't hold a candle to the original. A friend of mine gave me this album (on cassette, of course) for my birthday in 1992, I guess. I never listened to it all the way through, but I listened to "Drive" over and over again because of the electric guitar that comes in about 2:05 into the song.
I listened to a tribute album to Tori Amos called "Songs of a Goddess" recently because I wanted to hear the cover of "Beauty Queen" that is the first song on the tribute album (and has a "bagpipe" sound to it). I rediscovered this cover of "Sugar" by Rei Toei. I have no idea who Rei Toei is because when I do a search on the name, I just get references to William Gibson.
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