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So I recently decided I should do a blog on TGWTG, and I thought the best way to start off would be to talk about a little issue I have at work.

So yeah, ’bout a year ago someone in my area at work turned on the radio, and honestly there was like 3-6 songs that were all either remakes, rip-offs, or tributes to songs that came out and were popular 10, 20, or even 30 years ago! It’s alright when you get one or two of these every so often, but they all flood out at once, it tells me that perhaps certain songwriters or whatnot can’t seem to come up with anything good nowadays and are biding their time doing these. And I know I listen to cover bands, that's not the same thing. There's a difference between a group that wants to pay homage to a song of yesterday and a group that can't come up with a good song on their own so they just borrow from yesterday.

Now I am not going to sit here and say that I NEVER do the same thing. I borrow lines without realising it at times, I quote and whatnot, but do I end all of my videos, conversations, and dialogs with “I’m Jyger, and I remember it so you don’t have to”? NO! That said, when I turn on the radio, and all I hear is Melanie Fiona sampling ‘Time of the Season’, or Flo Rida using the chorus of ‘You Spin Me Round’ and samples of ‘Blue (Da Ba Dee)’, or Black Eyed Peas covering ‘Time of My Life’ or Kanye West tributing ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’, or any of these other rip-offs or tributes, it tends to tick me off just a smidge.

Episode four of Beatles Covers Review and already, technical difficulties are plaguing the show!(explanation in the video) This is a first for the relatively young show, a top 5! This time it's the Top 5 People Who Should NEVER Cover the Beatles! For any feedback, please contact me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Thanks for watching, see you again next week with... Justin Beiber....

(and for the only person who seems to watch this, Joe Cocker is after that)

*This is an excerpt from my blog*

"...Rock That Body" is not a song that I would immediately find appealing.  It's not all that bad, but it's also not all that good.  I am not a big fan of synthesizers and that all around "computer generated" sound that this decade loves so much.  I'd rather listen to real musicians rather than Fergie's "chipmunk voice".  If you don't know what I'm talking about, just listen to it yourself."