I came across the Covers Project while reading up on all this web services malarkey (since it has an XML-RPC interface). It's much fun, basically a database cross-referencing which recording artists have covered each other, and charting the longest interconnected chain of covers in the process. What's great about it is that it's still fairly incomplete. I'd added a Nirvana cover of Devo's Turn Around, and a Beastie Boys cover of Minor Threat's Screaming At A Wall within my first couple of minutes.
Unfortunately the interface is slightly lacking in places. There's no easy way to report an incorrect entry, and no verification of your additions as far as I can see (some poor soul has entered Madonna's Material Girl as being a cover of a KMFDM song). It'd also be nice to have some kind of logging of who's entered what, but it's still good fun and I'd guess it's only early days. Test your pub-quiz knowledge and see how many you can rack up.
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I should have curbed my criticism.. the weblog of the guy who made it says he only finished it a week ago :)
Posted by Anonymous on 15 Apr 2002 at 07:59 PM