Sometimes I’ll cruise iTunes looking for covers of songs I like. While doing so for Talking Heads’ “Road to Nowhere,” I discovered that one ensemble had released the same cover of “Road to Nowhere” under multiple band names.
Eleven times.
Indeed, the versions of “Road to Nowhere” on iTunes by the following bands (all of which clock in between 3:49 and 3:53) are all exactly the same:
Burning Down the House
The Insurgency
Klone Orchestra
The Minister of Soundalikes
Monsters of Rock
Psycho Killers
Secret Popstars
Studio Sunset
Studio Union
Tribute Stars
Wildlife
Moreover, several of those incarnations of the same band (Studio Sunset, Burning Down the House, Psycho Killers, Wildlife, Klone Orchestra) appear to have issued the same entire album of Talking Heads covers (with the same tracks) multiple times. Indeed, they appear to have done it three times under just their Studio Sunset name!
(BTW, if you really want that album, the cheapest version is Burning Down the House’s A Salute to Talking Heads, which is a mere $5.99, compared to $7.99 or $9.99 for some of the others.)
But wait! There’s a completely different group that did the exact same thing with the same song.
Eleven times.
All these covers of “Road to Nowhere” under these band names (all of which clock in around 4:01) are the same:
Ameritz
The Hit Co.
The Hit Group
The Hit Crew
OMP Allstars
Party City
Rock Fest
The Rock Masters
Singing Mouths
Studio Group
Finally, here eight cover versions that are not only exactly the same, but the underlying track is so close to the ones above they might be the exact same version with a different vocal mix:
The Comptones
Dynamite
Driving Masters
The Falling Downs
Graham Blvd.
Road Demonz
Rock Playlist Masters
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