ahhh... jambands...

for some reason, I get a newsletter from livedownloads.com You can buy live Grateful Dead or Widespread Panic or Stringcheese... you get the idea. on the left of the email is a list of the top 25 singles downloaded. What the hell is it with jambands and covers? And why do, apparently, so many people like covers more than the band's own songs? It's just strange. That's all I'm saying. Here's a selection of the top 25:

• Band on the Run - Umphrey's McGee
• Little Wing - Widespread Panic
• November Rain - The Disco Biscuits
• Baba O'Riley - Umphrey's McGee
• Saftey Dance - Umphrey's McGee
• Waste - Dave Matthews (this IS a Phish song, right?)
• Thin Air - Umphrey's McGee (I'm going out on a limb here and assuming this is the Pearl Jam song and not some other song with the same name.
• Wish You Were Here (what the hell is up with this band)
• Lithium - The Disco Biscuits (Nirvana?)
• You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Disco Biscuits (Stones)
• The Song Remains the Same - Umphrey's McGee
• Devil Went Down to Georgia - String Cheese Incident
• Don't Fear the Reaper - moe
• When the Levee Breaks - Galactic

That's damn near 3/5 of the list... Given I'm only pretty sure about a couple of those, there are some others that I've never heard of on there. That's just... strange. Their own songs must suck...