Two cover versions came up on shuffle while out on the bike this morning and I thought I would post them here a. Because I love them both and b. To see what others thought and I am expecting there will be a lot who will wish the down bottom was still an option.

Unfortunately the first one I had lined up does not seem to appear on you tube anywhere but for anyone interested it was a version of Wichita Lineman by a band called the clouds. This is somewhat like The Jesus And Mary Chain covering Glenn Campbell but with a breathy female vocal, lots of distorted guitars etc. Anyway take my word for it, it's lovely .

The next is by a deeply unfashionable band but I still stand by their first album, which is full of smokey Sunday morning Uk reggae, now I know a lot of the massive are big randy Newman fans so I can imagine a certain sniffy disapproval of this version of a song which has been covered by many different artists. I however am not very familiar with original and feel no need to get to know it as this has, for me, become the definitive version.