The Covid Blues

Well, We're all in quarentine now and haven't seen a live gig since St Patty's Day, even CIUT is in lockdown but it's not like I'm going stir crazy and compliling a list of vaguely Covid related tunes or any thing. But since you asked here's a list of vaguely Covid related tunes for your dancing-at-home-like-Risky-Business pleasure;

HUEY PIANO SMITH & THE CLOWNS ~ "THE ROCKING PNEUMONIA & THE BOOGIE WOOGIE FLU";


The orginal version of a song that would be better known as an Aerosmith.

LITTLE WILLIE JOHN ~ "FEVER";


The original and still the best version of this classic.

THE BEACH BOYS ~ "IN MY ROOM";


If there was anybody who probably would have enjoyed quarentine it was Brain Wilson.

THE McCOYS ~ "FEVER"


Still the best cover of this song.

AEROSMITH ~ "THE ROCKING PNEUMONIA & THE BOOGIE WOOGIE FLU";


Pretty sure Aerosmith are immune to any virus known to man at this point.

ROBERT PALMER ~ "DOCTOR DOCTOR";


Robert Palmer was like the frat-boy version of Brian Ferry which seems like a dumb idea but it works here.

ROXY MUSIC ~ "LOVE IS THE DRUG";


By this point Bryan Ferry was the lounge lizard version of early Bryan Ferry but it totally works

X-RAY SPECS ~ "GERM FREE ADOLESCENTS";


X-Ray Specs only ballad and it's as perfect as you could ask for.

JOY DIVISION ~ "ISOLATION";


Joy Division should be the official band of any quarantine

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN ~ "MY LIFE'S THE DISEASE";


And Echo & The Bunnymen can open for Joy Divison

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES ~ "PLACEBO EFFECT";


No; Echo & THe Bunnymen can open for Siouxsie & the Banshees, who can then open for Joy Division.

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES ~ "PLACEBO EFFECT";


A decade later the Banshees went bac and redid the song with a freaking string section and it totally worked.

SIMPLE MINDS ~ "NO CURE";


People forget how different Simple Minds sounded when they started out.

THE FIXX ~ "SHUTTERED ROOM";


And the Fixx can open for Simple Minds

MAGAZINE ~ "THE LIGHT POURS OUT OF ME";


"Time drags, My time crawls. Like an insect, up and down the walls"

WIRE ~ "I AM THE FLY";


"I shake you down to say please as you accept the next dose of disease".

MISFITS ~ "COUGH/COOL";


Glen Danzig in his early Jim Morrison phase

IGGY & THE STOOGES ~ "SICK OF YOU";


Iggy Pop in his Jim Morrison phase.

SOCIAL DISTORTION ~ "SICK BOY";


Because of course.

MUDHONEY ~ "TOUCH ME I'M SICK";


Becuase of course pt.2

SOCIAL STRIFE ~ "COVID-19";


Local Toronto band joins in with a decent effort

DIAMANDA GALAS ~ "THIS IS THE LAW OF THE PLAGUE";


She has an entire album with a plague theme that was actually about the AIDS pandemic but it's still relevant, not to mention scary.

VAN MORRISON ~ "TB SHEETS);


Van The Man once did a classic tuberculosis song. Then he went and ruined it by becoming a conspiracy theorist mask-hole.

VICTORIA SPIVEY ~ "TB BLUES";


The original tuberculosis blues. Jimmy Rodgers would later take the title and have a bigger hit with a different TB song.

MERLE HAGGARD ~ "TB BLUES";


Merle's version of the Jimmy Rodgers version.

THE RIZDALES ~ "SO CLEAN";


London band sends us off with a helpful note