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MP3 Suicide / Dream Baby Dream (1980)

MP3 Luna / Dream Baby Dream (Suicide cover, 1997)

This. This is like one of those matching games you get on your paper placemat with the crayons at a Big Boy restaurant. Or Photohunt. The differences are few and hard to find, and that makes all the difference.

Covers Theory #3

MP3 Galaxie 500 / Listen, The Snow Is Falling (Yoko Ono cover, 1990)

MP3 Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet / Listen, The Snow Is Falling (Yoko Ono cover?, 2008)

Is a cover still a cover if only the (statistically improbable) name is the same? Multiple songs titled "I Want You" (by the Beatles, the Troggs, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Third Eye Blind) a cover do not make. Multiple songs titled "Listen, The Snow Is Falling" are another matter.

Covers Theory #2

MP3 Galaxie 500 / Cheese and Onions (The Rutles cover)

Band #1 is a real band. Band #2 is a fake band. Band #3 is a real band. Band #2 is a parody of Band #1. Band #3 covers a spoof of Band #1 written, performed, and recorded by Band #2. What is the ontologico-aesthetic status of the third-wave version of the song? Is it wiped free of spoof?

If you make fun of someone making fun are you being serious?

Covers Theory #1

MP3 New Order / Ceremony (Joy Division cover, 1980) [beginner]

MP3 Luna / Fourth of July (live Galaxie 500 cover, 2001) [advanced]

Band #1 writes and performs Song A, dies. Band #2 rises from the ashes, covers Song A or (Song A). Who song is it? Is Song A' a cover?

MP3 Galaxie 500 / Ceremony (JD-NO cover, 1989) [just right]

Is Galaxie 500 covering Joy Division, or is he/she/it covering New Order covering Joy division? If Luna performed "Ceremony" would the universe implode or explode?