Covering your bases by stacy

i spent much of this weekend (when i wasn’t hiking past 700-year-old zen temples) catching up on some magazine reading. in paste i read a blurb about fountains of wayne, a band i really should get to know better, especially considering their love for my mom. the paste blurb focused mainly on their cover of “… baby one more time” and how they pick their covers, in general. coincidentally, i’d heard the band talk about this very same topic on npr on friday night (friday morning for you western hemisphere kids). from the article: “i’m not a Britney Spears fan, but we covered ‘… baby one more time’ because we thought it was a great song,” [bassist adam] schlesinger says. “just because she happened to record it first doesn’t change that.” adds [singer chris] collingwood: “if it’s a good song,...