TEN Years ago today, on Wicked Guilty Pleasures, Scott posted the following:
Years ago, my old office had an administrative assistant who listened to a lot of the same indie rock and alt stuff as I did at the time. Needless to say we got along smashingly. One day I was asking her a question and today's song was playing on her computer. I then had a non-work question: "who's this covering XTC?" She wisely asked if I liked it. I said, "yeah, it's pretty cool." She said, "It's Mandy Moore." I died a little inside that day. Fortunately, Mandy went on to marry Ryan Adams which of course made her cool in the eyes of hipsters everywhere (I'm certainly making that last part up). I should say though that her last two records: Wild Hope and Amanda Leigh are some damn fine folkie/pop.
Forget the Ryan Adams comment, which didn't exactly age well. But it was - is - a terrific cover. He was right about that. But also, this started us both thinking, and those thoughts led us to the creation of this blog a couple of months later.
So, I consider this the anniversary of Totally Covered.
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