{"id":222,"date":"2005-02-26T08:55:42","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T13:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2005-02-26T08:55:42","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T13:55:42","slug":"covering-cyndi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/02\/26\/covering-cyndi\/","title":{"rendered":"covering cyndi"},"content":{"rendered":"

So after reading grrl<\/a>‘s latest challenge<\/a>, I got to wondering how many covers of (what I believe to be) the song in question there were. I used my favourite resource, and discovered the artist’s website actually tracks who’s covered what songs commercially. The answer to my question stunned me: ninety-two<\/a>. Then I thought about it, and it is a damn good song. I’d like to hear Matchbox 20’s version, but am not willing to buy a DVD just to listen to the cover.<\/p>\n

That’s a lot of covers, and those are the ones she knows about. There’s some interesting bits in there, and a lot of the covers are notations on bands who performed her stuff in concerts. The one I think I’d like to hear is A New Found Glory’s cover of “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough” (seriously).<\/p>\n

Now, if I could only get my head around the logo game<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So after reading grrl‘s latest challenge, I got to wondering how many covers of (what I believe to be) the song in question there were. I used my favourite resource, and discovered the artist’s website actually tracks who’s covered what songs commercially. The answer to my question stunned me: ninety-two. Then I thought about it, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}