burning at the centre of time

Can we talk about how every time I see The River mentioned, I think it's based on the (amazing) Springsteen song/album?

Because that would seriously make a really interesting drama, about the 70s rural US and lost dreams and teen pregnancy and unions and economic issues. TOPICAL. I would watch the fuck out of that show.

(sohotrightnow, back me up?)

Right, after that Rather Good Doctor Who, I am compiling a 1969 playlist for the episode. Because I can.

As for the rest, terribly clever. I only have one point that makes me itch in a bad way...but I don't think I can review the episode properly (either formally or informally) until everything's resolved in this storyline.

And that is all I will say for now!

That question on LJ about covers that surpass the originals totally intersects with my idea for a mix, but I can't really upload at the moment. So, a list of ten personal covers that I think surpass the originals, 'cause I am an unabashed dork:

Antigone Rising - Fat Bottomed Girls (Queen)
The Boy Least Likely To - Faith (George Michael)
Far - Pony (Ginuwine)
John Mellencamp - Wild Nights (Van Morrison)
Leo Kottke - World Turning (Fleetwood Mac)
Matchbox Twenty - Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac)
Matthew Sweet - Magnet and Steel (Walter Egan)*
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - For You (Bruce Springsteen)
Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
10000 Maniacs - Because the Night (Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith)

And ten covers I just really like:

Barenaked Ladies - Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Bruce Cockburn)
Concrete Blonde - Dancing Barefoot (Patti Smith)
Indigo Girls - Mrs. Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel) [h/t rhi_silverflame]
Joan Osbourne - Man in the Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan) [h/t frogmajick]
John Barrowman - She's Always A Woman (Billy Joel)
Lindsey Buckingham - This Nearly Was Mine (various, Rodgers & Hammerstein)
Patty Smyth - Call to Heaven (Magnum's 'Les Morts Dansant')
Sarah McLachlan - Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
Stevie Nicks - Free Fallin' (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
Teddy Thompson - The Future (Leonard Cohen) [h/t unholynotions]

If you wanna hear some of these, I collected them in a Grooveshark playlist, except World Turning and Call to Heaven, which didn't work there.
ETA: This Nearly Was Mine isn't working and isn't in album form on YouTube, so I ULed it here for completeness.

EDIT AGAIN: I forgot about Michael Hedges, who was...probably one of the best guitarists ever, lost early. Those of you who've been subjected to 'All Along the Watchtower' know him already, but here are a couple more...
Come Together (The Beatles)
A Love Bizarre (Prince)