If you put together a cd of the tracks submitted in the covers competition in the style of " The Collection " album and you also can have two bonus tracks, what would they be?

Here are mine:

1) Dancing With Tears In My Eyes: Goldenboy
2) Hymn: Monument
3) The Thin Wall - MIB Version: Mike Lyden
4) The Voice: Remind
5) Vienna: The Ok State
6) Passing Strangers: Nils Gunther
7) Sleepwalk: Monument
8) Reap The Wild Wind: Darren Cowie
9) All Stood Still: Martin Eklund
10) Visions In Blue - Alternative Version: Releveler
11) We Came To Dance
12) One Small Day: Box of Sky
13) Loves Great Adventure - Cocktail Version: Neil Dube
14) Lament: Frank Helander

Bonus Tracks:

15) We Stand Alone: Ultima Beep
16: Man of Two Worlds: Jesper Nielsen & Helen Wallace

The only one that gets my vote as I haven't been able to listen to any others submitted is the excellent "Sleepwalk" by Electro 80s. There is also an excellent live version of "Vienna" on their website.

Having said that - I saw Monument back in April, already know how excellent they are so they would go into a comp as well.

well thank you snashy, we are actually thinking of doing a ultravox tribute band aswel as electro80s,

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by blue:
<strong> well thank you snashy, electro80s have been here b4 mate same senario In my client's defence, I didn't know about Electro 80s until a few months ago!!

Can never have too many of them to spread the word!!

thats true mate, id rather make good music mate, than pretend to be a good photographer that knows nowt,

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by blue:
<strong> thats true mate, id rather make good music mate, than pretend to be a good photographer that knows nowt,

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by blue:
<strong> thats true mate, id rather make good music mate, than pretend to be a good photographer that knows nowt,

MOTW..... Thanks for the namecheck, it is indeed a great honour to be included in your top choice of covers from a competition that has ran for a few years now! Top 16 out of a couple of hundred entries aint arf bad!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by blue:
thats true mate, id rather make good music mate, than pretend to be a good photographer that knows nowt, [/QUOTE

I can't do either. Can put together & present a rather fine radio show from time to time, even if I do say so myself......& quite a lot of the time I do!! But hey so long as the occasional patient who happens to stumble upon it enjoys a moment or two of it that's all that matters!!

I too thought Sleepwalk rather excellent! Hats off to you Blue!

& I didn't hear it on a sodding tube train either before you ask, Missy!!

While on the subject of EV musicians - I'd also like to take this opportunity to HIGHLY recommend Flip Martian's "ARMEDGEDDON" track - blew me away - great stuff - check it out if you can - I'm sure some of you probably have alredy but I was extremely impressed!!

I know it's not a cover & I've mentioned it before but SpottyDogg's entry is worth a listen.

Talking of EV musicians Miss Forrest - I'll be extremely disappointed if you don't record something for next year's comp. Still, I've only 300 odd days to persuade ya!! :p

LOL! It's a nice idea. Unfortunately I spent most of this year doing gtr work on someone elses album!
I think 300 days is enough time to sqeeze something into my hectic schedule though!

LOL! It's a nice idea. Unfortunately I spent most of this year doing gtr work on someone elses album!
I think 300 days is enough time to sqeeze something into my hectic schedule though!

Too right ya lazy bugger!!

i wasnt refer in to you helen.dont let your head wander dear

Didn't for one minute think you were refering to me errrm "dear" (WTF? LOL). I'm just genuinely curious.... feel free to message me privately if you don't want to divulge on here

This thought suddenly occured to me as I walked in the rain from one library to another nearer home......just how many females have entered the competition this year, or indeed in previous years?

I then thought - having heard that youtube "cover" of Hymn on another thread which has a male/female duet, I'd be interested to hear a female vocalist have a crack at "Lament", possibly Hymn or, dare I suggest it - Vienna. There is one person who comes to mind who is on my facebook & does sing who I'd personally like to see have a go.

Well, i hear Helen does have a voice, she should have a go and any other lovely Ultravox ladies.

I would love to collaborate with someone next time round. I am a singer but don't play any instrument well enough to contribute something on my own.

As you have come forward Lynne - it is YOU I was referring to in my earlier post. I really think you could do an excellent job. Admittedly I've never heard you sing, but from what I have read about your singing in the past from your other fb friends I really believe you should do it.

I definitely feel there should be more female representation in the competition, hence the reason for my original comment. Certainly in one genre of music I listen to - rock - female musicians are scorned in some areas for even daring to pick up an instrument or else they are just dismissed as a nice piece of eye candy without much attention being paid to the musical talent.

...whereas in other musical genres they flourish, i.e. Kate Bush, Bat For Lashes, Bjork, Alison Goldfrapp etc.

True.....& ok, they are an exception in the rock genre...but Girschool wouldn't still be going after 30 odd years without having some talent!!

As the discussion on Radio 5 last night commented about Cowell killing music....where will Leona Lewis be in 5 years time?!!!

hopefully in my bed snashy making babies

You're welcome to her Blue - too young for me!!