Come hell or high water

I am getting a #MusicMonday post up in time this week!

Actually, does snow count? Because over the past week, we were under about THREE WHOLE INCHES of snow (but there was ice underneath that), causing me to miss a few days' work and therefore, not stay caught up on anything I needed to get done outside of the house. Which is kind of why this is late-ish (only it's not truly late because it is still Monday).

So Spank contacted me a few weeks ago about Motley Crue's Farewell Tour (for this decade) coming up this summer. Seriously, I thought they'd already done that back in the late nineties, but I guess I was wrong.

This was my absolute favorite band of my teenage years. I always made it a point to go see them whenever they were in town, I had all their albums, and had my walls plastered with their posters. Until recently, I had all my tour shirts from eighties (but that's another story for another post). I'm sure you get the picture. I used to be a pretty huge fan. My "fanship" of the band may have wavered over the years, but it wouldn't be right for me to not see them on their farewell tour. So I will be going. I believe the date is in August.

The song I'm sharing today is one of my all-time favorites by them. It wasn't one of their hits or singles and it's not off my favorite album, but I really loved this song because to me it seemed more bluesy and stripped-down than their others had been. I played this repeatedly throughout the entire summer of 1985:

Motley Crue: "Raise Your Hands to Rock"

Will you be seeing Motley Crue on their farewell tour this summer? Who WILL you be seeing this summer?

MUSIC MONDAY

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X-Mas Dolly

Never judge a book by its cover.

We've all heard that expression before, and that brings me to one of my favorite things about music: the remake. Or cover. However you say it, I'm talking about when a band performs and/or records a song previously performed and/or recorded by another artist.

Now before you get all aural elitist on me, keep in mind that I already know many of you can't stand covers. But, you see, I am the exact opposite! I love it when a band or artist takes a song that is already familiar and makes it their own. And I could talk about covers for DAYS. I'm not even joking. So naturally, I jumped ALL OVER this week's them at Dolly's: remakes.

Here are just a few of my favorites:

Motley Crue - Smokin' in the Boys Room
(originally recorded by Brownsville Station)

The Power Station - Get It On (Bang a Gong)
(originally recorded by T. Rex)

Dwight Yoakam - Suspicious Minds
(originally recorded by Mark James but obviously made famous by Elvis Presley)

Type O Negative - Cinnamon Girl
(originally recorded by Neil Young)

Like I said above, I could literally post hours of covers that I love (maybe one day I will link to my Spotify covers playlist), but I think I'll conclude my selections with this one since it's probably my very favorite cover ever. ::sniffs:: How I miss TON! Especially this era TON. Peter Steele's been gone over three years now and I still can't believe it.

I may just take this theme and run with it, since I love so many cover songs. If you love the remake as much as I do, what are some of your favorites? Perhaps there are some out there that I haven't heard - yet.

Music Monday
X-Mas Dolly
Run DMT
Be There 2Day
My So-Called Chaos

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