Side A
Artist	Song
Ensemble Modern	The Ballad of Mack the Knife (Brecht/Weill)
Bobby Darin	Mack the Knife
Bo Diddley	Pills
R.E.M.	Pills
Duke Ellington	Take the 'A' Train
Esquivel	Take the 'A' Train
Jesse Fuller	San Francisco Bay Blues
Richie Havens	San Francisco Bay Blues
Cub	New York City
They Might Be Giants	New York City
John Lee Hooker	Boom Boom
The Animals	Boom Boom
The Rolling Stones	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Devo	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
The Velvet Underground	I Found a Reason
Cat Power	I Found a Reason
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Leadbelly	Cotton Fields
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Cotton Fields
The Only Ones	The Whole of the Law
Yo La Tengo	The Whole of the Law
Eddie Cochran	Summertime Blues
Blue Cheer	Summertime Blues
Bob Dylan	Blowin' in the Wind
Stevie Wonder	Blowin' in the Wind
The Shangri-Las	Give Him a Great Big Kiss
The New York Dolls	Give Her a Great Big Kiss
Hair (Original Cast)	Ain't Got No/ I Got Life (Ragni, Rado and MacDermot)
Nina Simone	Ain't Got No/ I Got Life
Tiny Bradshaw	The Train Kept A-Rollin'
The Yardbirds	The Train Kept A-Rollin'
The Beach Boys	The Warmth of the Sun
Friends of Dean Martinez	The Warmth of the Sun

Comment:

A sort of mix tape chain letter. I made this and sent it to a friend with instructions to vote on a winner in each of the 16 bouts, email me his choices, then send the tape on to another person with the same instructions and so on. Eventually, I hope to gather enough ballots to post the final winners. I tried to pick cover versions that were not simply reverential versions, but songs where the artists covering the song really made it their own. I also tried to make it so that they weren't all one-sided battles. Please play along and send your choices and opinions to me at crispinhglover@hotmail.com. After I get enough responses I will send out the final tallies.

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