Bonus Song Thursday - Counting Crows "The Ballad of El Goodo"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

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🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! This week the B's tackle Counting Crows' cover of Big Star's immortal "The Ballad of El Goodo." They talk about how they actually prefer to hear Big Star's music covered fairly straight (as opposed to, say, via an electronica interpretation) and how Counting Crows come eerily close to the original. Along the way, they touch upon possibly the oldest "Great Album," the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and of course, the untimely passing of beloved singer Chris Cornell. All this and more on this week's Bonus Song Thursday edition of The Great Albums.

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0:00.0	Years ago, my heart was set to live up, and I've been trying hard against unbelievable eyes
0:23.5	It gets so hard at times like now
0:28.8	Oh
0:30.1	Guns they wait to be stuck by
0:34.7	And my side is God
0:38.3	There ain't no one going to turn
0:43.3	And I'm Bill
0:44.5	And I'm Brian
0:45.4	And this is the great albums
0:47.3	podcast, Bonus Song Thursday
0:50.0	Bonus
0:51.0	What were we just listening to right there,rian that was counting crows uh their cover of
0:58.3	the ballad of el goodo by big star it's from their 2012 covers album underwater sunshine or what
1:05.5	we did on our summer vacation parenthetical what we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great,
1:13.5	and then we follow it up with a bonus song episode,
1:16.1	where we take just a single song by the same artists or something tangentially related.
1:20.6	Earlier this week, we were talking about Counting Crows, August, and everything after,
1:25.3	with our buddy Frank LaTierryiri and we decided to follow it up
1:29.2	with with another Counting Crow's song. But this is a little tangential because it's a cover
1:34.8	and it's a cover of a band that Brian and I both love, Big Star. Yeah and I, this song or well this
1:41.7	version of this song came across my radar from Frank.
1:45.1	Really?
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