The Watchtower Project
By maddan
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So that you don't have to, your correspondent has listened to every* version of All Along The Watchtower available on Spotify. These have now been ranked by an entirely arbitrary and unscientific method so that others may suffer them.
Best Hula Version And Overall Winner:
Taj Mahal and the Hula Blues Band
Best 'Balls To The Wall' Rawk! Version:
Neil Young
Most Kick-Ass Awesome Version Overall:
Tim Russ
Best Use Of A Mouth Organ Not By Bob Dylan:
Jefferson Goncalves
Best Hip-Hop Version.
P.O.S.
Best Use Of What Appears To Be A Fog Horn.
Spirit
Version With The Most Pointlessly Added Lyrics:
Indigo Girls
Only A Cappella Version:
The Persuasions
Most Inexplicably Included In An Album Of Love Songs:
Kyle Weston
Most Inexplicably Included On A Tribute To U2:
Silhouette
Best Insertion Of 'Sha-de-dudely-da-da-da' Into The Lyrics:
Lonnie
Most Heartfelt Acoustic Version:
Asher Quinn.
Hounourable mention to Thea Gilmore
Best Country or Honky-Tonk Version:
Halden Wofford and the High Beams
Best Piano Instrumental:
Francis Lockwood
Weirdest Version Overall:
Prize awarded jointly to The Sky About To Rain and Michel Montecrossa.
Worst Punk Version:
Envy On The Coast.
Best Version Recorded At A Seafood Festival:
Storm Watch.
Best Version By Bobby Womack:
Bobby Womack
Best Club Remix:
No! Just no! Give it up.
*Correspondent may have skipped over some of the worse ones**.
**Correspondent may also have gotten bored and quit early.
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