Warren Zevon

Yeah, something worse than Dubya's attempted extortion of $87 million happened yesterday.

Warren Zevon, one of the truly great minds in music, died. Okay, it wasn't unexpected. But it still hurts like hell. At least he lived long enough to see that James Bond movie he wanted to catch.

Username changed in honor of the man.

Cover song poll

LJ poll behind the cut. And yes, I know I left off a ton of great covers. LJ limits polls to fifteen questions, and there have been about a zillion cover songs in the last sixty years. And yes, I also know I left Alan Jackson out of the "Summertime Blues" question. That's because, in spite of the fact that art is subjective, his cover objectively sucked rancid donkey ass, and he needs to be kneecapped on principal for producing such a travesty. But there are no wrong answers in the poll. Really.

Also, I left out all Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan covers, because there are too many of them, and almost all of them are better than the originals (let's face it, neither of them has a lovely voice).


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Thoughts on the survey

I realize that folks are still taking the survey, but here's my thoughts on both the voting, and the songs themselves:
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Dar

About half an hour ago, I was struck with the irresistible urge to load nothing but Dar Williams songs into iTunes. My work productivity may have slipped a little but my happiness has grown.