Independent scholar Doyle Greene is the author of several books and serves on the editorial board of Film Criticism. He lives in Tucson Arizona.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: The Song Doesn't Remain the Same

¿¿"Reading" through Listening

¿¿Covering Cover Songs

Part One-Judging a Song by Its Cover

1.¿National Anthems: "The ­Star-Spangled Banner"¿¿Jimi Hendrix (Woodstock, 1969)

¿¿Whitney Houston (Super Bowl XXV, 1991)

2.¿The "Anti-Cover": Punk and the ­Avant-Garde

¿¿Sid Vicious: "My Way" (The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, 1980)

¿¿The Residents: The Third Reich and Roll (1976)

¿¿Hardcore and the ­Anti-Cover

Part Two-Anatomy of a Cover: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

3.¿"Satisfaction" and Rock: The Rolling Stones (Out of Our Heads, 1965)

¿¿The ­Anti-Beatles

¿¿"Satisfaction" as Manifesto

¿¿Under My Thumb: Altamont and Rock Totalitarianism

4.¿"Satisfaction" and Soul: Otis Redding (Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul, 1965)

¿¿Paint It Black: Race and Rock in the 1960s

¿¿Soul Brands: Motown and Stax

¿¿"Satisfaction" as Protest

5.¿"Satisfaction" and Punk: Devo (Q: Are We Not Men?

A: We Are Devo!, 1978)

¿¿A Postmodern Protest Band (or, Anarchy in Akron)

¿¿"Satisfaction" as Deconstruction

¿¿Marketing Opposition

6.¿"Satisfaction" and Pop: Britney Spears (Oops! ... I Did It Again, 2000)

¿¿The Lolita Next Door

¿¿Blonde Alienation

¿¿"Satisfaction" as Commodity

Part Three-Signs of the Times: Cover Songs in Context

7.¿Music from the Waist Down: Covers, Gender and Sexuality

¿¿King Curtis: "Whole Lotta Love" (Single, 1970)

¿¿Van Halen: "You Really Got Me" (Van Halen, 1978)

¿¿The Flying Lizards: "Sex Machine" (Top Ten, 1984)

¿¿Kim Wilde: "You Keep Me Hangin' On" (Another Step, 1986)

8.¿Black Musicians, White Songs: Race and Covers in the Late

Counterculture

¿¿Rufus Harley: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (Recorded

in 1969; Released on Courage: The Atlantic Recordings, 2006)

¿¿The Isley Brothers: "Ohio/Machine Gun" (Givin' It Back, 1971)

¿¿The Four Tops: "A Simple Game" (Single, 1972)

9.¿Dance with Laibach: Covers and the Critique of the ­Nation-State

¿¿The Laibach Project

¿¿NATO (1994)

¿¿The Dilemmas of Laibach

10.¿In with the Old: Covers and Generational Politics

¿¿The Midlife Crisis of Rock and Roll

¿¿Frank Sinatra: "Something" (Single, 1970)

¿¿"So Bad It's Good": Covers and Camp

¿¿Pat Boone: "Smoke on the Water" (In a Metal Mood: No More

Mr. Nice Guy, 1997)

¿¿Johnny Cash: "Hurt" (American IV: The Man Comes Around,

2002)

Conclusion: The Politics of Listening

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index