* Did you know that A-ha's "Take On Me" (one of the coolest videos of all time, IMHO) is really a ska song? (Reel Big Fish)
* Or that Bohemian Rhapsody is really a Celtic reel? (Hibernian Rhapsody by De Dannan.)
* The Boswell Sisters: great 30s girl group (did they call them girl groups then, or is that only a Phil Spector thing?) I don't know much about 'em, but their vocalese shines.
* Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor: Appalachian Waltz. This is such a gorgeous piece that after hearing it on the radio I immediately bought the album.
* And of course there's the things you would never search for, but stumble across in other people's collections, like a Cantonese version of YMCA. Of course, browsing other people's collections carries the danger of the "un-covered download": the song you download because you *think* it's covered by someone else, only to discover on listening that it's not a cover, it's only mislabelled. (For the record, as far as I know the Bangles never recorded Video Killed The Radio Star.) Well, heck, what do you expect for free?
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