Jennifer Warnes made something of a career out of doing that. Her Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen record is very good, and she released “First We Take Manhattan” before he did.

Put me down for Isaac Hayes’ “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” Cheer-Accident’s “Theme From Shaft” and Pop-O-Pies’ “Truckin” and “I Am the Walrus.”

Somehow I heard the Lance Diamond version before I heard Prince’s original. I still think it’s miles better than the original.

Lambchop’s “Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton” too. And every time GWAR was on.

It’s of a kind with most of the post-Cale/Buckley “Hallelujah” covers. Both are originally songs of regret. Blowing them up into triumphant showstoppers doesn’t do them justice. Also, it’s time for me to note that the second best version of “I Will Always Love You” is the one John Doe (X) sings in the “Bodyguard”…

Ravioli is better than turtles. 

Any record that can include “Excitable Boy” and “Accidentally Like A Martyr” deserves its own hall of fame.

Alan Myers on drums. Damn, that guy was good.

Why are there no articles about people who wear prosthetic foreheads on their real heads?

I’m not sure I’m comfortable with what you’re implying about wrestling.

If you didn’t grow up Italian in Bay Ridge, or New Jersey, or on Long Island, being patronizing about Columbus and Columbus Day is ignorant. Generations of Italian-American school kids were brought up to view Columbus as a great explorer and hero. Regardless of whether it was historically true, these were kids of…

Ok, that was totally worth looking up.

This whole story makes a lot more sense if you read that last word in the headline as “massage.”

I don’t know if it was woke or not, but the AV Club has always had an anti-being-an-asshole bias. I think the difference now is the constant stream of articles designed expressly for outrage harvesting.

Was there a sale on scare quotes that I missed?

“1, 2, 3, step, turn, kick, 1, 2, 3, step, turn, kick.”

Yeah, I don’t think Mr. Spider was being glib about sexual assault. If you’re looking at 30 years, regardless of the alleged crime, your decision to plead or not plead is entirely strategic, as it should be. Requiring the prosecution to prove its case against you beyond a reasonable doubt is a fundamental due process…

What did you think of the Dead Man’s Pop remix of Don’t Tell A Soul?

Hurt in a car accident?  I will fight for you!

No. 4 blew my mind!