Covers! Come And Get Yr Covers!

As of today, I've spent the last approximately 700 days writing up my 700 favorite songs. (Less than a year to complete the full Top 1000, if I decide to keep going.) You can count 'em all down right here.

Naturally, I've also been keeping some running Spotify playlists to track the list, 100 per playlist. (If you've got Spotify, you can hear #601-700 right here.)

At the same time, I've also been compiling some playlists that track the same list, in the same order, but comprised solely of cover versions. Got a few hundred so far (though, alas, a lot of the more obscure entries have no cover versions, at least none that are available on Spotify.)

You can snag all the playlists--the proper #1-700 plus a few hundred matching cover versions--on my website. Meanwhile, here are a few of the more amusing covers I've found--which, for purposes of this post, I'm gonna limit to covers of male-sung songs as covered by women musicians, cuz why not?

Horsegirl, "History Lesson Pt. 2" (Minutemen original at # 255)

Angelique Kidjo, Once In A Lifetime (Talking Heads original at #14):

Kelly Hogan, Papa Was A Rodeo (Magnetic Fields original at #259):

Shonen Knife, Rain (Beatles original at #1):

LaBelle, Won't Get Fooled Again (The Who original at #130):

Linda Ronstadt, Tumbling Dice (Rolling Stones original at #8):

Fastbacks, Queen Of Eyes (Soft Boys original at #158):

Hem, The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes (Elvis Costello original at #21):