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This time FOUND SOUND takes a fond look, or rather listen, to a couple of cover versions of one of our favorite songs, which is the Van Morrison song "Gloria", famously covered by the Shadows Of Knight, a Chicago-area mid 60s garage band. "Gloria" was a tremendous success for the Shadows Of Knight and their subsequent career was a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to top it. Well, sometimes you peak too early. Frontman Jim Sohns would also win the respect of a grateful world by punching the crap out of Sid Vicious in 1978. At any rate what we have here today is covers of this cover song, covers that are wildly divergent and yet at the same time retain the simplistic power of what may be the most perfect rock and roll song ever recorded. Legendary Texas psychedelic-garage outfit THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS grab Gloria and crank the intensity knob a few clicks rightward in their own speedy, disjointed style. Meanwhile, years later, across the pond in merrie olde England, girl garage group Thee Headcoatees do the bidding of their Svengali-like master Billy Childish and deliver their own take on this classic with Melvin. Is this a song so simple that you can throw a guitar down stairs and on the way down it will hit the steps and play "Gloria's" three chords? Or is it a pristine distillation of everything that is good and worthwhile in our world today? Only time will tell.

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