{"id":46,"date":"2010-01-30T13:11:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T13:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skamonics.wordpress.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2010-01-30T13:11:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T13:11:24","slug":"can-you-tell-the-difference-between-these-and-the-original-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/30\/can-you-tell-the-difference-between-these-and-the-original-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you tell the difference between these and the original sounds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was once the catchphrase for cheap LPs of cover versions of current hits &#8211; a kind of low-rent predecessor to the <em>Now that&#8217;s what I call music<\/em> series<\/p>\n<p>The answer the the question &#8211; of course &#8211; was always yes.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that you can tell the difference between what we play and the original1960s versions of the ska classics in our repertoire.<\/p>\n<p>But if you want to hear the originals, here is a We7 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.we7.com\/user\/view-playlist?playlistId=227523&amp;m=0\" target=\"_blank\">playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one cheat as it has Amy Winehouse singing &#8220;You&#8217;re wondering now&#8221;\u00a0 rather than an original version. Indeed I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever heard the original as the earliest version we know is by the modern incarnation of the Skatalites on Hi-Bop Ska. This is not on We7. but those with a Spotify acount can listen it <a href=\"http:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/3QYOReuh4LN9SFmJVtF0n6\">here<\/a>. (Spotify is better, but you need an invite to listen for free &#8211; but We7 still has lots of brilliant 60s ska.)<\/p>\n<p>Nor have I put in original versions of some of the bonkers covers we do as our versions bear little relation to the originals, and we like to surprise at gigs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was once the catchphrase for cheap LPs of cover versions of current hits &#8211; a kind of low-rent predecessor to the Now that&#8217;s what I call music series The <a href='https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/30\/can-you-tell-the-difference-between-these-and-the-original-sounds\/' title='read more!'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}