{"id":1778,"date":"2026-04-20T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:20:07","slug":"song-covers-by-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/song-covers-by-me-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Song: Covers by Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While listening to the song Louise by the Human League a while back, the words &#8220;As if we were still lovers&#8221; seemed to transpose themselves in my mind to &#8220;I&#8217;m sick of all these covers&#8221; so for some strange reason I decided to complete the whole song with my own lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I searched high and low for a backing track but couldn&#8217;t find one so I decided to create it myself using a tracker program called Madtracker 2. After much fiddling getting the baseline right I found I just couldn&#8217;t get the main backing sounding anything other than awful and realised it&#8217;s because I have no idea how to use chords. A little help from a friend of mine (thanks Liz) and I had the chords for most of the song. I got the last help just before Christmas 2005, then things got too busy and I upgraded and lost the original tracker file I&#8217;d been working on! Anyway, months later I finally get around to thinking of completing it so put out a call for the original, which I was sure I gave to a few people, and thanks once again to Liz I had something I could work with, which I&#8217;ve now finally completed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know I still can&#8217;t sing so take appropriate precautions regarding glass, etc. before you start. I also hold no responsibility for any panicing animals or mental illness brought on by my voice , nor any other unfortunate incidents. You play this as your own risk! I apologise unreservedly to the Human League for &#8220;Covers&#8221;, but hope you enjoy it anyway and sympathise with its message \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ponder-Covers.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While listening to the song Louise by the Human League a while back, the words &#8220;As if we were still lovers&#8221; seemed to transpose themselves in my mind to &#8220;I&#8217;m sick of all these covers&#8221; so for some strange reason &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/song-covers-by-me-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}